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University of Chicago Press The Changing Hospital Industry
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a factual basis for discussing for-profit versus not-for-profit ownership of hospitals and gives a look at evidence about issues in the hospital industry.
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The University of Chicago Press Price Index Concepts and Measurements Volume 70
Book SynopsisAddresses the many questions involved in conceptualizing and measuring inflation. This book evaluates the accuracy of COLI, a Cost-of-Goods Index, and a variety of other methodological frameworks as the bases for consumer price construction.
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The University of Chicago Press How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession
Book SynopsisThe recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities. Universities responded to these stresses in different ways. This volume presents new evidence on the nature of these responses and how the incentives and constraints facing different institutions affected their behavior.
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University of Chicago Press The Impact of International Trade on Wages
Book SynopsisThis collection of ideas and data sources provides alternatives to the trade versus technology debate and assesses the impact of international trade on US wages. It offers an appraisal of the wage distribution predicament, examining the effects of technology and globalization on the labour market.
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University of Chicago Press Scanner Data and Price Indexes 64 NBER Studies in Income and Wealth CHUP
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The University of Chicago Press Taxing Multinational Corporations NBERProject
Book SynopsisSummarizes the research on the structure and effects of tax policies collected in The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations, covering such issues as the impact of tax law on US competitiveness and the volume and location of research and development spending.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Martin Feldstein, James R. Hines, Jr., R. Glenn Hubbard. 1: Home-Country Effects of Outward Direct Investment Robert E. Lipsey 2: Tax Rules and the Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on U.S. National Income Martin Feldstein 3: Corporate Taxes and the Cost of Capital for U.S. Multinationals Joosung Jun 4: The Importance of Income Shifting to the Design and Analysis of Tax Policy Roger H. Gordon, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. 5: Alternative Minimum Tax Rules and Multinational Corporations Andrew B. Lyon, Gerald Silverstein. 6: Taxes, Technology Transfer, and R&D by Multinational Firms James R. Hines, Jr 7: Tax Planning, Timing Effects, and the Impact of Repatriation Taxes on Dividend Remittances Rosanne Altshuler, T. Scott Newlon, William C. Randolph. 8: Is Foreign Direct Investment Sensitive to Taxes? Jason G. Cummins, R. Glenn Hubbard. 9: The Tax Treatment of Interest and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals Kenneth A. Froot, James R. Hines, Jr. 10: International Accounting, Asymmetric Information, and Firm Investment Jason G. Cummins, Trevor S. Harris, Kevin A. Hassett. Appendix James R. Hines, Jr., R. Glenn Hubbard. Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Effects of Taxation on Multinational
Book SynopsisIn an attempt to quantify the effect of tax policy on international investment choices, the ten papers in this volume present in-depth analyses of the interaction of international tax rules and the investment decisions of multinational enterprises.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Martin Feldstein, James R. Hines, Jr., R. Glenn Hubbard. 1: Outward Direct Investment and the U.S. Economy Robert E. Lipsey Comment: S. Lael Brainard 2: The Effects of Outbound Foreign Direct Investment on the Domestic Capital Stock Martin Feldstein Comment: Kenneth A. Froot 3: Why Is There Corporate Taxation in a Small Open Economy? The Role of Transfer Pricing and Income Shifting Roger H. Gordon, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. Comment: T. Scott Newlon 4: The Impact of International Tax Rules on the Cost of Capital Joosung Jun Comment: Joel Slemrod 5: The Tax Sensitivity of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data Jason G. Cummins, R. Glenn Hubbard. Comment: David G. Hartman 6: The Alternative Minimum Tax and the Behavior of Multinational Corporations Andrew B. Lyon, Gerald Silverstein. Comment: Alan J. Auerbach 7: Accounting Standards, Information Flow, and Firm Investment Behavior Jason G. Cummins, Trevor S. Harris, Kevin A. Hassett. Comment: G. Peter Wilson 8: Taxes, Technology Transfer, and the R&D Activities of Multinational Firms James R. Hines, Jr Comment: Adam B. Jaffe 9: Do Repatriation Taxes Matter? Evidence from the Tax Returns of U.S. Multinationals Rosanne Altshuler, T. Scott Newlon, William C. Randolph. Comment: William M. Gentry 10: Interest Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals Kenneth A. Froot, James R. Hines, Jr. Comment: Julie H. Collins Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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University of Chicago Press Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behaviour, including labour-force participation, saving behaviour, and choice of health insurance plan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Martin Feldstein, James M. Poterba. 1: Labor Supply and the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 Nada Eissa Comment: James J. Heckman 2: The Taxation of Two-Earner Families Martin Feldstein, Daniel R. Feenberg. Comment: Harvey S. Rosen 3: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects of a Shift from Income to Consumption Taxation Gilbert E. Metcalf Comment: Gary Burtless 4: The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses William M. Gentry, Alison P. Hagy. Comment: Brigitte C. Madrian 5: Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance Jonathan Gruber, James M. Poterba. Comment: David F. Bradford 6: High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1980s: The Anatomy of Behavioral Response Joel Slemrod Comment: Don Fullerton 7: Tax Shelters and Passive Losses after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 Andrew A. Samwick Comment: Roger H. Gordon 8: The Relationship between State and Federal Tax Audits James Alm, Brian Erard, Jonathan S. Feinstein. Comment: James W. Wetzler Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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University of Chicago Press Social Security Pension Reform in Europe NBER
Book SynopsisThe essays contained in this text highlight the problems that the European pension reform process faces and how it differs from that of the US. A range of European nations are about to implement mixed social security systems that combine pay-as-you-go with an individual retirement account.
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The University of Chicago Press A Prelude to the Welfare State The Origins of
Book SynopsisPresents a reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace. This book argues that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties - labor, lawyers, and legislators - benefited from the ruling.Trade Review"This is surely the very best book ever written about the passage of workers' compensation, an instant 'classic' in historical political economy." - Robert A. Margo, Southern Economic Journal "Substantial, well-written, and compelling.... The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." - Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"
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The University of Chicago Press The Regionalization of the World Economy
Book SynopsisRegional economic arrangements such as free trade areas (FTAs), customs unions and currency blocs have become increasingly prevalent in the world economy. Including both empirical and theoretical studies, this volume addresses questions concerning FTAs and other regional trading arrangements.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Jeffrey A. Frankel 1: Determinants of Bilateral Trade: Does Gravity Work in a Neoclassical World? Alan V. Deardorff Comment: Jeffrey H. Bergstrand Comment: Gene M. Grossman 2: The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows Barry Eichengreen, Douglas A. Irwin. Comment: Robert Z. Lawrence Comment: Paul Wonnacott 3: Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements? John Whalley Comment: Eric W. Bond Comment: Dani Rodrik 4: Continental Trading Blocs: Are They Natural or Supernatural? Jeffrey A. Frankel, Ernesto Stein, Shang-Jin Wei. Comment: Paul Krugman Comment: T. N. Srinivasan 5: The Welfare Implications of Trading Blocs among Countries with Different Endowments Antonio Spilimbergo, Ernesto Stein. Comment: John Haveman Comment: Edward E. Leamer 6: Regional Patterns in the Law of One Price: The Roles of Geography versus Currencies Charles Engel, John H. Rogers. Comment: Kenneth A. Froot Comment: Michael Knetter 7: Regionalization of World Trade and Currencies: Economics and Politics Jeffrey A. Frankel, Shang-Jin Wei. Comment: David Hummels Comment: Philip I. Levy 8: Tariff Phase-Outs: Theory and Evidence from GATT and NAFTA Carsten Kowalczyk, Donald Davis. Comment: Arvind Panagariya Comment: Robert W. Staiger 9: Overview Anne O. Krueger Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Internationalization of Equity Markets
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses important trends in the internationalization of equity markets. Essays examine such issues as: the current extent of international market integration; gains to US investors through international diversification; and the behaviour of country funds.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Jeffrey A. Frankel 1: A Test of the International CAPM Using Business Cycles Indicators as Instrumental Variables 23 Bernard Dumas 2: An Exploratory Investigation of the Fundamental Determinants of National Equity Market Returns 59 Wayne Ferson, Campbell R. Harvey. 3: Tests of CAPM on an International Portfolio of Bonds and Stocks 149 Charles M. Engel 4: International Equity Transactions and U.S. Portfolio Choice 185 Linda L. Tesar, Ingrid M. Werner. 5: The Effect of Barriers to Equity Investment in Developing Countries 231 Stijn Claessens, Moon-Whoan Rhee. 6: International Experiences with Securities Transaction Taxes 277 John Y. Campbell, Kenneth A. Froot. 7: Price Volatility and Volume Spillovers between the Tokyo and New York Stock Markets 309 Wen-Ling Lin, Takatoshi Ito. 8: What Moves the Discount on Country Equity Funds? 345 Gikas Hardouvelis, Rafael La Porta, Thierry A. Wizman. Contributors 405 Author Index 407 Subject Index 411
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The University of Chicago Press Essays in Positive Economics
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University of Chicago Press Individual Social Responsibility Child Care
Book SynopsisThis work explores the political, social and economic forces that shape US policies affecting human services. Seeking to shed light on the tension between individual and social responsibility, it should appeal to economists, social scientists and policy-makers concerned with social policy issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Victor R. Fuchs 1: Overview Timothy Taylor 2: Child Care: Private Cost or Public Responsibility? Arleen Leibowitz Comment: Francine D. Blau 3: Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Externalities, and Equity, and Their Connection to Rising Costs Eric A. Hanushek Comment: Christopher Jencks 4: Health Care Reform: The Clash of Goals, Facts, and Ideology Henry J. Aaron Comment: Martin Feldstein 5: To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care Alan M. Garber Comment: John B. Shoven 6: Consumption Externalities and the Financing of Social Services Robert H. Frank Comment: Amartya Sen 7: Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement Paul M. Romer Comment: Roger G. Noll 8: Information, Responsibility, and Human Services Kenneth J. Arrow Comment: Glenn C. Loury 9: The Changing Roles of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Enterprise in Education, Health Care, and Other Human Services Henry Hansmann Comment: Joseph A. Grundfest 10: Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why? James M. Poterba Comment: Richard J. Zeckhauser 11: The Politics of American Social Policy, Past and Future Theda Skocpol Comment: Seymour Martin Lipset Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press House of Debt How They and You Caused the Great
Book SynopsisWhy do severe recessions happen? Could we have prevented the Great Recession and its consequences? And what actions are needed to prevent such crises going forward? This book offers convincing answers to some of the most important questions faced by the economy.Trade Review"Distills lessons about the crisis from their recent research into one easily digestible package." (Economist) "The economists Mian and Sufi are our leading experts on the problems created by debt overhang." (Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books) "A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one." (Wall Street Journal) "The most important economics book of the year." (Lawrence Summers, Financial Times) "Mian and Sufi deserve credit of another kind for detalling how ensnared the American Dream is in this tangled web of debt finance-and how exposed the vast majority of us are to the broader economic consequences." (Atlantic)
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The University of Chicago Press Tournament of Lawyers The Transformation of the
Book SynopsisTournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law.
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The University of Chicago Press Studies in International Taxation NBERProject
Book SynopsisTo help assess existing tax policies and incentives, this volume presents new research on how taxes affect the investment and financing decisions of multinationals today. The contributors examine the effects of taxation on decisions about international financial management, business investment, and international income shifting.Table of ContentsIntroduction Alberto Giovannini, R. Glenn Hubbard, And Joel Slemrod I. International Financial Management 1. Taxes And The Form Of Ownership Of Foreign Corporate Equity Roger H. Gordon And Joosung Jun Comment: Alberto Giovannini 2. Impacts Of Canadian And U.S. Tax Reform On The Financing Of Canadian Subsidiaries Of U.S. Parents Roy D. Hogg And Jack M. Mintz Comment: Neil Bruce 3. The Effects Of U.S. Tax Policy On The Income Repatriation Patterns Of U.S. Multinational Corporations Rosanne Altshuler And T. Scott Newlon II. Investment 4. Taxation And Foreign Direct Investment In The United States: A Reconsideration Of The Evidence Alan J. Auerbach And Kevin Hassett Comment: James M. Poterba 5. On The Sensitivity Of R & D To Delicate Tax Changes: The Behavior Of U.S. Multinationals In The 1980s James R. Hines Jr. Comment: Bronwyn H. Hall 6. The Role Of Taxes In Location And Sourcing Decisions G. Peter Wilson Comment: R. Glenn Hubbard III. Income-Shifting 7. Explaining The Low Taxable Income Of Foreign-Controlled Companies In The United States Harry Grubert, Timothy Goodspeed, And Deborah Swenson Comment: Jeffrey K. Mackie-Mason 8. Income Shifting In U.S. Multinational Corporations David Harris, Randall Morck, Joel Slemrod, And Bernard Yeung Comment: John Mutti Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press Studies in International Taxation Paper
Book SynopsisAs a united global economy evolves, economists and policymakers are forced to consider whether the current system of taxing income is inconsistent with the trend toward liberalized world financial flows and increased international competition. To help assess existing tax policies and incentives, this volume presents new research on how taxes affect the investment and financing decisions of multinationals today. The contributors examine the effects of taxation on decisions about international financial management, business investment, and international income shifting. They consider the influence of tax rules on dividend policy decisions within multinationals; the extent to which tax incentives affect the level and location of research and development across countries; and the fact that foreign-controlled companies operating in the United States pay lower taxes than do domestically controlled companies. The contributors to this volume are Rosanne Altshuler, Alan J. Auerbach, Neil Br
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University of Chicago Press Latin American Macroeconomic Reforms The Second Stage
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University of Chicago Press Output Measurement in the Service Sectors
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The University of Chicago Press Social Security Retirement around the World NBER
Book SynopsisPresenting an account of the decline in labour force participation, this text suggests that social security programmes actually provide incentives for early retirement. The text houses a set of papers that present information on social security systems and labour force participation patterns.Table of ContentsIntroduction and Summary Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise 1. Social Security and Retirement in Belgium Pierre Pestieau and Jean-Philippe Stijns 2. Social Security and Retirement in Canada Jonathan Gruber 3. Social Security and Retirement in France Didier Blanchet and Louis-Paul Pelé 4. Social Security and Retirement in Germany Axel Börsch-Supan and Reinhold Schnabel 5. Social Security and Retirement in Italy Agar Brugiavini 6. Social Security and Retirement in Japan Naohiro Yashiro and Takashi Oshio 7. Social Security and Retirement in the Netherlands Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos 8. Social Security and Retirement in Spain Michele Boldrin, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, and Franco Peracchi 9. Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden Marten Palme and Ingemar Svensson 10. Pensions and Retirement in the United Kingdom Richard Blundell and Paul Johnson 11. Social Security and Retirement in the United States Peter Diamond and Jonathan Gruber
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University of Chicago Press Risky Behavior among Youths An Economic Analysis
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University of Chicago Press Social Security Programs ans Retirement around
Book SynopsisThe future of retirement programs is troubled, both in United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. This title examines the consequences of reforming retirement benefits in a dozen nations. It evaluates the effects of illustrative policies for countries facing the impending growth of social security benefits.
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University of Chicago Press Labor Statistics Measurement Issues 60 NBER Studies in Income and Wealth CHUP
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The University of Chicago Press African Successes Volume II
Book SynopsisStudies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five percent in some regions. The African Successes series looks at recent improvements in living standards and other measures of development in many African countries with an eye toward identifying what shaped them and the extent to which lessons learned are transferable and can guide policy in other nations and at the international level. The second volume in the series, African Successes: Human Capital turns the focus toward Africa's human capital deficit, measured in terms of health and schooling. It offers a close look at the continent's biggest challenges, including tropical disease and the spread of HIV.
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The University of Chicago Press African Successes Volume I
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The University of Chicago Press Individualism and Economic Order
Book SynopsisFirst published in the 1930s and 1940s, the essays collated in this volume discuss topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory, as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies.Table of ContentsI: Individualism: True and False II: Economics and Knowledge III: The Facts of the Social Sciences IV: The Use of Knowledge in Society V: The Meaning of Competition VI: "Free" Enterprise and Competitive Order VII: Socialist Calculation I: The Nature and History of the Problem VIII: Socialist Calculation II: The State of the Debate (1935) IX: Socialist Calculation III: The Competitive "Solution" X: A Commodity Reserve Currency XI: The Ricardo Effect XII: The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism
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The University of Chicago Press Pulp Empire
Book SynopsisUncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government used comic books as propaganda tools to help wage World War II and the Cold War.Trade Review"I'll be frank: I love this book. Hirsch's writing is crisp and exciting and it's a joy to see the history of comic books and the Cold War United States told from such a fresh angle. This fun, sharp book is one I'll be thinking about for a while."-- "Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making an American Monster 1 This Is Our Enemy 2 The Wild Spree of the Laughing Sadist 3 Donald Duck’s Atom Bomb 4 The Devil’s Ally 5 American Civilization Means Airstrips and Comic Strips 6 The Free World Speaks 7 Thor Battles the Vietcong Conclusion: The Ghosts among Us Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Shoddy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of 'doing good' when you donate them to clothe someone 'less fortunate') to the larger social, economic, historical, and yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell brings gives us this kind of journey by searching for shoddy. Through her we learn about the human costs of the industrial revolution, learn about British Chartism, the economic realities of the American Civil War, learn about the ideas that animated dissent--Carlyle, Disraeli, and Marx, just for a start, and so much more, all through the eyes of shoddy. It is an exemplary book in its use of the visual record to weave a narrative that implicates current practice, not just in how we do scholarship across a range of fields in media and science and technology studies, but how we think about ourselves. Shoddy is a book that will change your mind." --Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital AgeTable of ContentsPrologue: Finding Shoddy Old Clothes Odyssey The Heap Act I: Devil’s Dust Emergence of an Industry Narratives of Transmutation, Myths of Invention Devil’s Dust Politics Material Philosophy and the Shredded Self Shoddy as Paradox and Marx’s “Excrements of Consumption” Act II: Textile Skin The Wear of War Textile Skin and “the Sinews of War” Shoddy and the Body Politic Photography and the “Harvest of Death” On Shrouds and Shoddy Act III: Lively Things Miasma and Contagion Consolidation of Clothes and Corpses Disinfection and Its Discontents The Intimate Materiality of the Unknowable Liveliness and Formlessness Epilogue: Shoddy Renaissance Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Pension Plans Employee Performance Evidence
Book SynopsisExplores the relation between employees' preferences for certain types of pension plans and their productivity. This text shows how pensions influence workers' behaviour on the job, and argues that these plans can help firms select and pay their best workers without expending monitoring resources.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Ch. 1: Developments in the Market for Private Pensions Ch. 2: Defined Benefit Plans as Implicit Contracts Ch. 3: Impact of Pensions on Quit Rates Ch. 4: Quits and Retirements in the Federal Government Ch. 5: Pensions and Retirement Patterns Ch. 6: Role of Pensions in Earlier Retirement after 1970 Ch. 7: Toward Explaining the Growth of Defined Contribution Plans Ch. 8: Sorting across Plan Type Ch. 9: Encouraging High Discounters to Quit Ch. 10: Aligning Pay and Productivity: 401k Plans Ch. 11: Reliability as a Hidden Worker Attribute Ch. 12: Tax Considerations and Plan Choice Ch. 13: A Pension Tax Policy for Low Discounters Ch. 14: Incentives, High Discounters, and Social Security Ch. 15: Reforms for the Disability and Medicare Programs Notes Selected References Index
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University of Chicago Press The Political Economy of Tax Reform Volume 1 NBER
Book SynopsisThe rapid emergence of East Asia as an important geopolitical-economic entity has been one of the most visible and striking changes in the international economy in recent years. With that emergence has come an increased need for understanding the problems of interdependence. As a step toward meeting this need, the National Bureau of Economic Research joined with the Korea Development Institute to sponsor this volume, which focuses on the complexities of tax reform in a global economy. Experts from Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Japan, and Thailand, as well as the United States, Canada, and Israel examine the major tax programs of the 1980s and their domestic and international economic effects. The analyses reveal similarities between the United States and countries in East Asia in political constraints on policy making, and taken together they show how growing interdependence interacts with domestic economic and political concerns to affect issues as politically vital as tax reform. Economists, policymakers, and members of the business community will benefit from these studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger Part I 1. International Interactions between Tax Systems and Capital Flows, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka Comments: Toshihiro Ihori and John Whalley 2. The Role of Taxation in the Development of East Asian Economies, Vito Tanzi and Parthasarathi Shome Comment: Joseph Y. Lim Part II 3. Tax Reform in Japan, Masaaki Homma Comments: Hiromitsu Ishi and Charles E. McLure, Jr. 4. The Political Economy of Tax Reforms and Their Implications for Interdependence: United States, Charles E. McLure, Jr. 5. Tax Reform in Korea, Taewon Kwack and Kye-Sik Lee 6. An Appraisal of Business Tax Reform in Taiwan: The Case of Value-Added Taxation, Chuan Lin Comments: Ching-huei Chang and Kwang Choi Part III 7. The Dynamic Efficiency Effect of a Change in the Marginal Capital Income Tax Rate: The Nakasone-Takeshita Tax Reform Tatsuo Hatta and Hideki Nishioka Comments: Medhi Krongkaew and Assaf Razin 8. The Role of Tax Policy in Korea's Economic Growth, Irene Trela and John Whalley Comments: Anne O. Krueger 9. Aging of Population, Social Security, and Tax Reform, Yukio Noguchi Comments: Hiromitsu Ishi, Maria S. Gochoco, and, Charles E. McLure, Jr. 10. Bequest Taxes and Accumulation of Household Wealth: U.S.Japan Comparison, Thomas A. Barthold and Takatoshi Ito Comments: Ching-huei Chang and Hiromitsu Ishi 11. Taxation of Income from Foreign Capital in Korea , Kun-young Yun Comments: Toshihiro Ihori, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and Twatchai Yonkittikul 12. Tax Policy and Foreign Direct Investment in Taiwan Ching-huei Chang and Peter W. H. Cheng Comments: Kwang Choi and Toshihiro Ihori
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University of Chicago Press Macroeconomic Linkage Savings Exchange Rates and
Book SynopsisExplores East Asia's macroeconomic experience in the 1980s and the economic impact of East Asia's growth on the rest of the world. The authors explore the causes of capital flows, changes in trade balances, and exchange-rate fluctuations in East Asia and their effects on other countries.
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University of Chicago Press Financial Deregulation Integration in East Asia
Book SynopsisWhile financial deregulation has taken place worldwide, this pattern is most pronounced in East Asia, where it has influenced the behaviour of exchange rates, interest rates and capital flows. This text analyzes the effects of financial deregulation and integration on East Asian markets.
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University of Chicago Press Regional Global Capital Flows Macroeconomics
Book SynopsisThe volume of capital flow between industrial and developing countries has grown and become a major issue in a world that is increasingly globalized. In this text, Takatoshi Ito and Anne Krueger have assembled a group of scholars who address different types of capital flows.
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University of Chicago Press Commodity Prices and Markets Volume 20 NBER
Book SynopsisFluctuations of commodity prices, most notably of oil, capture considerable attention and have been tied to important economic effects, such as inflation and low rates of economic growth. This title advances our understanding of the consequences of these fluctuations, providing both analysis and a focus on the countries of the Pacific Rim.
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The University of Chicago Press The Business of Being a Writer
Book SynopsisBusiness of Being a Writer offers the business education writers need but so rarely receive. It is meant for early career writers looking to develop a realistic set of expectations about making money from their work or for working writers who want a better understanding of the industry.
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University of Chicago Press Selected Papers of D.Gale Johnson
Book SynopsisThis volume collects Johnson's most important work. It explores the consequences of government intervention in United States and world agriculture; the economics of agricultural supply and of rural labour and human capital issues; and the analysis of agricultural productivity in poor countries.
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University of Chicago Press The Economics of Agriculture Volume 2 Papers in
Book SynopsisThis volume presents 22 papers by Johnson's former students and colleagues. It explores themes and topics inspired by Johnson's work, including agricultural policy and US farm prices; European Common Agricultural Policy; and agricultural and rural development in the Third World.
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University of Chicago Press Politics Property Rights The Closing of the
Book SynopsisAfter the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. Shawn Kantor asserts that this conflict was centered on anticipated benefits from fencing livestock rather than on class, cultural or ideological differences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: The Dynamics of Institutional Change: An Analytical Framework 2: The Economic Benefits of Livestock Enclosure 3: Translating Economic Interest into Action: Distributional Conflicts and the Dynamics of Institutional Change 4: Resolving the Distributional Conflicts 5: The Politics of Property Rights 6: Uncovering the Ideology of Property Rights Reform in the Postbellum South 7: Property Rights and Populists: The Political Consequences of Livestock Enclosure Epilogue: A Note on Institutional Change, Efficiency, and Democracy App. A: Procedure Used to Calculate Expected Savings from the Stock Law App. B: Data Appendix to Carroll and Jackson County Election Regressions Notes References Index
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University of Chicago Press Politics Property Rights The Closing of the
Book SynopsisAfter the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. Shawn Kantor asserts that this conflict was centered on anticipated benefits from fencing livestock rather than on class, cultural or ideological differences.
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University of Chicago Press Buying Believing Sri Lankan ADvertising
Book SynopsisDrawing upon fieldwork conducted over 30 years, the author to this text examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to Sri Lankanize commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially creating new culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Mastering Iron The Struggle to Modernize an
Book SynopsisVeins of iron run deep in the history of America. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron. The author argues that the prolonged development of the American iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face.
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The University of Chicago Press Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy NBERProject Reports
Book SynopsisExplores the experience of specific industries in order to determine the effectiveness of strategic trade policy in promoting economic growth. The papers cover the US and European auto industries, the US steel industry, the commercial aircraft industry and airline deregulation in Scandinavia.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Paul R. Krugman 1. The Non-Optimality of Optimal Trade Policies: The U.S. Automobile Industry Revisited, 1979-1985 Kala Krishna, Kathleen Hogan, and Phillip Swagel Comment: Garth Saloner 2. Trade Policy Under Imperfect Competition: A Numerical Assessment Anthony J. Venables Comment: David G. Tarr 3. Strategic Trade Policy in the European Car Market Alasdair Smith Comment: James Levinsohn 4. Deregulation of Scandinavian Airlines: A Case Study of the Oslo-Stockholm Route Victor D. Norman and Siri P. Strandenes 5. Industrial Policy in the Transport Aircraft Industry Gernot Klepper Comment: Heather A. Hazard 6. Trade and Industrial Policy for a 'Declining?' Industry: The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry Richard G. Harris 7. Strategic Manpower Policy and International Trade David Ulphand and L. Alan Winters 8. Industrial Organization and Product Quality: Evidence from South Korean and Taiwanese Exports Dani Rodrik 9. Import Surveillance as a Strategic Trade Policy L. Alan Winters Comment: James E. Anderson
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The University of Chicago Press The WTO as an International Organization
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The University of Chicago Press The Political Economy of American Trade Policy NBERProject Reports
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The University of Chicago Press The Political Economy of Trade Protection
Book SynopsisThis summary examines the level, form and evolution of US trade protection. In case studies of trade barriers imposed during the 1980s to help the steel, semiconductor, automobile, lumber, wheat, and textile and clothing industries, the study traces the evolution of efforts to obtain protection.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Anne O. Krueger 1: The U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Conflict Douglas A. Irwin 2: The Rise and Fall of Big Steel's Influence on U.S. Trade Policy Michael O. Moore 3: Making Sense of the 1981 Automobile VER: Economics, Politics, and the Political Economy of Protection Douglas R. Nelson 4: Import Protection for U.S. Textiles and Apparel: Viewed from the Domestic Perspective J. Michael Finger, Ann Harrison. 5: Do Precedent and Legal Argument Matter in the Lumber CVD Cases? Joseph P. Kalt 6: The Political Economy of the Export Enhancement Program for Wheat Bruce L. Gardner 7: Agricultural Interest Group Bargaining over the North American Free Trade Agreement David Orden 8: The Effect of Import Source on the Determinants and Impacts of Antidumping Suit Activity Robert W. Staiger, Frank A. Wolak. 9: Implications of the Results of Individual Studies Anne O. Krueger Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press Money Morals and Manners
Book SynopsisDrawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle classthe managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselvesand their classfrom everyone else. Money, Morals, and Manners is an ambitious and sophisticated attempt to illuminate the nature of social class in modern society. For all those who downplay the importance of unequal social groups, it will be a revelation. A powerful, cogent study that will provide an elevated basis for debates in the sociology of culture for years to come.David Gartman, American Journal of SociologyA major accomplishment! Combining cultural analysis and comparative approach with a splendid literary style, this book significantly broadens the under
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University of Chicago Press Social Control of the Drinking Driver Studies in
Book SynopsisDrunken driving is the most serious crime likely to be committed by an adult. Each year in the United States it is responsible for approximately 20,000 fatalities, more than 500,000 arrests, and millions of violations. It involves a wider variety of social classes and economic strata than any other major violation of the law. Only recently, however, has the problem of alcohol and traffic safety received attention as a public policy issue. Social Control of the Drinking Driver lays the groundwork for a much needed integration of methods, principles, and priorities. Law, criminology, biology, psychology, sociology, economics, public policythe disciplines concerned with the problem of drinking and driving are many and varied, and research crosses national boundaries as well. It is not surprising, therefore, that an integrated general perspective has not yet emerged. Drawing on fourteen specialists and surveying the situations in nine countries, this book presents a comprehensive statement of current knowledge about drunken driving and its control.
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