Directory of Working Papers in Economics

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2005 Papers
WPE 05.01 Michael Makowsky An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime
WPE 05.02
Moolah for Mugabe, Cash for Qaddafi: Inducing Meaningful reform
2004 Papers
WPE 04.01
Peter J. Boettke Hayek and Market Socialism: Science, Ideology and Public Policy
WPE 04.02
Peter J. Boettke Anarchism as a Progressive Research Program in Political Economy
2003 Papers
WPE 03.01
Theodore Breton Making the Case for the Solow Growth Model
WPE 03.02
Theodore Breton Education, Human Capital, and National Income
WPE 03.03
Peter J. Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Peter Leeson The Indiginous Path to Progress: Institutional Stickiness and the Failure of Development Economics
WPE 03.04
Peter J. Boettke and Edward Stringham Czech Your Premises: Are Regulations the Answer for Stock Markets in Transition?
WPE 03.05
Peter J. Boettke, Christopher Coyne, Peter Leeson Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics
WPE 03.06
Douglas W. MacKenzie The Use of Knowledge about Society
WPE 03.07
Theodore Breton Education: How Its Distribution Affects A Nations's Income
2002 Papers
Peter J. Boettke, Don Lavoie, and Virgil Henry Storr The Subjectivist Methodology of Austrian Economics and Dewey's Theory of Inquiry
Peter J. Boettke and Anne Rathbone Civil Society, Social Entrepreneurship, and Economic Calculation: Toward a Political Economy of the Philanthropic Enterprise
William N. Butos and Peter J. Boettke Kirznerian Enrepreneurship and the Economics of Science
Peter J. Boettke and Peter Leeson The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000
Peter J. Boettke Information, Knowledge, and the Close of Friedrich Hayek's System A Comment
Peter J. Boettke and Bridget I. Butkevich Changing Conceptions of the State in Post-Communist Political Economy
Mark Steckbeck and Peter J. Boettke Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Entrepreneurial solutions to adverse selection problems in E-Commerce
Peter J. Boettke The Place of Nationalökonomie: Theorie des Handelns und Wirtschaftens in Modern Political Economy
Hanjiang Zhang Fixed Versus Flexible Exchange Rate in China
Bart J. Wilson and Douglas D. Davis Cost Synergies and Post-Merger Predictions in Asymmetric Logit Environments
The Effect of Offer Verifiability on the Relationship
Between Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations
Theodore Breton An Extension of Neoclassical Growth Theory to Include Institutions
Charles Rowley and Anne Rathbone Terrorism
Peter J. Boettke and Ryan Oprea Rule of Law
Peter J. Boettke and Peter Leeson An 'Austrian' Perspective on Public Choice
Dean Stansel Interjurisdictional Competition and Local Economic Performance: A Cross-Sectional Examination of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Hanjiang Zhang International portfolio choice and numeraire portfolio in real term - Review and redo the work of "International Portfolio Choice and Corporation Finance: A Synthesis"
Peter J. Boettke and Ryan Oprea Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)
Peter J. Boettke and John R. Subrick Rule of Law, Development and Human Capabilities
Peter J. Boettke Information, Knowledge, and the Close of Friedrich Hayek's System A Comment
Peter J. Boettke Information and Knowledge: Austrian Economics In Search Of Its Uniqueness
Peter J. Boettke Remebering Don Lavoie (1951-2001):
A Students Perspective
W. Mark Crain and Carlos Scartascini The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems
Suleyman Degirmen Financial Interventions and the Turkish Banking Sector
2001 Papers

 WPE 01.01

Peter J. Boettke and Bridget Butkevich "Entry and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Post-Communist Russia"

 WPE 01.02

Scott Beaulier and Peter J. Boettke "Of Norms, Rules, and Markets: A Comment on Samuels"

 WPE 01.03

Peter J. Boettke "Putting the Political Back Into Political Economy"

 WPE 01.04

Peter J. Boettke andVirgil Storr  "Post Classical Political Economy: Polity, Society and Economy in Weber, Mises and Hayek"

 WPE 01.05

Carlos G. Scartascini and W. Mark Crain "The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems"

 WPE 01.06

Peter J. Boettke "The Austrian School of Economics"
2000 Papers

 WPE 00.01

Anthony deCarvalho "Wage Adjustment, Imperfect Competition and Real Exchange Rate Reversion: An Attempt to Unravel the PPP Puzzle"

 WPE 00.02

Jay Cochran "Where Did All the Money Go? Measuring the Extent of the Market During the Interwar Years, 1919-1939"

 WPE 00.03

Peter Boettke "F.A. Hayek As An Intellectual Historian of Economics"
1999 Papers

WPE 99.01

Peter J. Boettke "Which Enlightenment, Whose Liberalism: Hayek's Research Program for Understanding the Liberal Society"

WPE 99.02

Peter J. Boettke "Towards a History of the Theory of Socialist Planning"

WPE 99.03

Edward J. Lopez "Prisoners on the Hill: The Dilemma of Congressional Voting on Term Limits . . ."

WPE 99.04

Gareth Davis "Repression, Rationality, and Relative Deprivation: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Cross-National Variations in Political Violence"

WPE 99.05

Noel D. Campbell and
Edward J. Lopez
"Price Theory, Vote Scores, and Campaign Expenditures: Signaling or Ideology?"

WPE 99.06

Emory Peters "Social Choice and Individual Liberties"

WPE 99.07 

Carrie A. Meyer "The Political Economy of NGOs and Globalization"

WPE 99.08

Joseph D. Reid, Jr. "The Evolution of Federal Employment"

WPE 99.09 

Stephen Miller "Visualizing Growth: Exploratory Data Analysis Meets the Augmented Solow Model"

WPE 99.10 

Jay Cochran "Replicating Gibson: Or, A Pair of Dummies Does Not Beat a Paradox"
1998 Papers

WPE 98.01

Sam Papenfuss "Legislatures and Lotto: Taxing Federal Transfers"

WPE 98.02

Stephanie Owings and
Rainald Borck
"Throw the Bums Out: Do Citizen Legislators Really Spend Less?"

WPE 98.03

Carlos Ramirez and
Christian Eigen-Zucchi
"Why Did the Clayton Act Pass? A Look at the Senate Vote"

WPE 98.04

Noel D. Campbell "Political Entrepreneurs and the Transfer Demanding Process: Homesteading the Unassigned District"

WPE 98.05

James C. Miller III "Incumbents' Advantage"

WPE 98.07

Karen I. Vaughn and
J. Loren Poulsen
"Is Hayek's Social Theory an Example of Complexity Theory?"
1997 Papers

WPE 97.01

James M. Buchanan "Transcending Genetic Limits"

WPE 97.02

Carlos D. Ramirez "The Cost of Glass Steagall on Corporate Investment: Evidence from Bank, Trust Company, and Insurance Company Affiliations"

WPE 97.03

Carrie A. Meyer "The Greening of National Accounts"

WPE 97.04

Tyler Cowen and
Sam Papenfuss
"Why are Most Universities Not for Profit?"

WPE 97.07

James M. Buchanan and
Yong Yoon
"Generalized Increasing Returns, Euler's Theorem and Competitive Equilibrium"

WPE 97.08

Willem Thorbecke "Monetary Policy, Time-Varying Risk, and the Bond Market Debacle of 1994"

WPE 97.09

W. Mark Crain "Districts, Diversity and Fiscal Biases: Evidence from the American States"

WPE 97.10

Joseph McGarrity,
Harvey D. Palmer and
Marc Poitras
"Reconsidering the Evidence of Consumer Racial Discrimination in the Market for Baseball Cards"