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Forthcoming Economics Publications

• Addison, John T. , "Performance Appraisal Systems: Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?" British Journal of Industrial Relations, September 2008 (with Clive R. Belfield), forthcoming.
• Addison, John T. , "Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach," Economica, 2008 (with Mario Centeno and Pedro Portugal), forthcoming.
• Addison, John T. , "Six Ways to Leave Unemployment," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008 (with Pedro Portugal), forthcoming.
• Addison, John T. , "Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless: Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis." Applied Economics, 2008 (with Christopher J. Surfield), forthcoming.
• Blackburn, McKinley L., "Are Union Wage Differentials in the U.S. Falling?"   Industrial Relations, forthcoming.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher, "An Event Study of Institutions and Currency Crises." (with Pattama L. Shimpalee)  Review of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
• Chappell, Henry W., with Rob Roy McGregor and Todd Vermilyea, "Regional Economic Conditions and Monetary Policy," European Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.

2008 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., "The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity  Please Stand Up?" Journal of Labor Research, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 114-137, June 2008 (with Lutz Bellmann, Thorsten Schank, and Paulino Teixeira).
• Addison, John T. , "Training, Unions, and Firm Performance," Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, Volume 40, Number 4, 2007, pp. 361-381 (with Clive R. Belfield). 2008.
• Guimarães, P., "The Fixed Effects Negative Binomial Revisited,"  Economics Letters, 99, pp 63-66, 2008.
• Murray, J., "Mangroves in the Gulf of California Increases Fishery Yields."  with Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Exequiel Ezcurra, Gustavo Danemann, Victor Valdez, and Enric Sala, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(30), 10456-10459, July 2008.

2007 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Cheltenham, England, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007.
• Addison, John T., "Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless: Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis." Applied Economics, 2007 (with Christopher J. Surfield).
• Addison, John T., "Atypical Work and Pay," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 73. No. 4, April 2007, pp. 1038-1065 (with Christopher J. Surfield).
• Addison, John T., "Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 60, No. 2, January 2007, pp. 187-203 (with Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank, and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "The Impact of De-unionization on Earnings Dispersion Revisited," Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 26, March 2007, pp. 337-363 (with Ralph Bailey and W. Stanley Siebert).
• Addison, John T., "The (Parlous) State of German Unions." Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 3-18 (with Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition," in Roland Vaubel and Peter Bernholz (eds.), Political Competition and Economic Regulation, London: Routledge, 2007, pp. 19-42.
• Addison, John T., "Union Voice," in James T. Bennett and Bruce E. Kaufman (eds.), What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-Year Perspective. Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007, pp. 238-274 (with Clive R. Belfield).
• Blackburn, McKinley L., "The Role of Information Externalities and Scale Economies in Home Mortgage Lending Decisions."  Journal of Urban Economics, January 2007.  (With Todd Vermilyea).
• Blackburn, McKinley L.,  "Estimating Wage Differentials without Logarithms."  Labour Economics, January 2007.
• Chappell, Henry W., with Rob Roy McGregor and Todd Vermilyea, "The Persuasive Power of a Committee Chairman: Arthur Burns and the FOMC," Public Choice, 132 (July 2007), pp. 103-112.
• Chappell, Henry W., with Rob Roy McGregor and Todd Vermilyea, "The Role of the Bias in Crafting Consensus: FOMC Decision-Making in the Greenspan Era," International Journal of Central Banking, 3 (June 2007), pp. 39-60.
• Guimarães P, Figueiredo O, Woodward D. "Measuring the Localization of Economic Activity: A Parametric Approach," Journal of Regional Science, 47 (4), pp. 753-774, 2007.
• C, Dismuke C, Guimarães P. "Survival Analysis and Competing Risk Models of Hospital Length of Stay and Discharge Destination: The Effect of Distributional Assumptions. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology," 7 (3-4), pp. 102-124, 2007.
• Guimarães P, Lindrooth R. "Controlling for Overdispersion in Grouped Conditional Logit Models: A Computationally Simple Application of Dirichlet-Multinomial Regression," Econometrics Journal, 10, pp. 439-452, 2007.
• Hauk, William,  "Small States, Big Pork" (with Romain Wacziarg).  Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Winter, 2,  pp. 95-106, 2007 .
• Guimarães, P., Palesch, Y.,  "Power and Sample Size for Randomized Play the Winner Rules," Contemporary Clinical Trials, 28 (4), pp. 487-499, 2007.
• Jensen, Christian, "Optimal Implementation Delays: When Should Policies be Announced," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54, pp. 496-511, 2007.
• McInnes, Melayne M. "Controls for Risk Aversion in the Laboratory" (with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and E. Elisabet Rutsröm) in Measurement in Economics, A Handbook, Michael Boomans, ed., Elsevier Press, 2007.

2006 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., "Editor’s Introduction," Portuguese Economic Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 2006, pp. 67-68.
• Addison, John T., "Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates," Portuguese Economic Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 2006, pp. 69-87 (with C. Richard Barrett and W. Stanley Siebert).
• Addison, John T., "The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS," Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp. 149- 162 (with Christopher J. Surfield).
• Addison, John T., "Works Councils, Labor Productivity, and Plant Heterogeneity: First Evidence from Quantile Regressions" Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 226, No. 5, September 2006, pp. 505-518 (with Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank, and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "Works Councils in the Production Process," Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 126, No. 2, 2006, pp. 251-283 (with Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank, and Joachim Wagner ).
• Addison, John T., "The Effect of Works Councils on Employment Change," Industrial Relations, Vol. 45, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 1-25 (with Paulino Teixeira).
• Addison, John T., "The Determinants of the Employment Structure: Wages, Trade, Technology, and Organizational Change," in Alex Bryson, John Forth, and Catherine Barber (eds.), Making Linked Employer-Employee Data Relevant to Policy, Department of Trade and Industry Occasional Paper No. 4, London, England: DTI, April 2006, pp. 101-119 (with Lutz Bellmann, Thorsten Schank, and Paulino Teixeira).
• Blackburn, McKinley L., "Racial Discrimination in Bank-Level and Market-Level Models of Mortgage Lending Decisions."  Journal of Financial Services Research, April 2006. (With Todd Vermilyea).
• Breuer, Janice Boucher,  "Problem Bank Loans, Conflicts of Interest, and Institutions." Journal of Financial Stability. October 2006. 2:266-85.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher,  "Misleading Inferences in Panel Unit Root Tests: An Illustration from Purchasing Power Parity: A Reply." (with Robert McNown and Myles Wallace). Review of International Economics. August 2006. 14:512-516.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher,  "Currency Crises and Institutions." (with Pattama L. Shimpalee). Journal of International Money and Finance. February 2006. 25:125-45.
• Chappell, Henry W., with Souren Soumbatiants and Eric Johnson, "Using State Polls to Forecast U.S. Presidential Election Outcomes," Public Choice, 127 (April 2006), pp. 207-223.
• Woodward, D., Figueiredo, O. and Guimarães, P., "Beyond the Silicon Valley: University R&D and High Technology Location," Journal of Urban Economics, 60(1), pp. 15-32, 2006.
• Jensen, Christian, "Expectations, Learning and Discretionary Policymaking," International Journal of Central Banking, 2, pp. 137-156, 2006.
• Dias, J. and John McDermott, "Institutions, Education, and Development: The Role of Entrepreneurs" Journal of Development Economics (2006).
• McInnes, Melayne M.,  "What is the Economic Cost of Overweight Children?" Eastern Economic Journal, 32(1), Winter 2006, pp. 171-187. (with Eric Johnson and Judith A. Shinogle)

2005 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., "Labor Adjustment in Two Countries with Bad Reputations: Analysis of Aggregate, Firm, and Flow Data for Portugal and Germany," International Economics and Economic Policy, No. 4, February 2005, pp. 329-348 (with Paulino Teixeira).
• Addison, John T., "The Status of the Collective Voice Model. Requiescat in Pace?" in Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler, Wolfgang Meyer, and Gesine Stephan (eds.), Instititutionen, Löhne und Beschäftigung, Nürnberg: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt -und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, 2005, pp. 11-29.
• Addison, John T., "What Have We Learned about the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.," Empirica, Vol. 32, No. 3-4, September 2005, pp. 345-368 (with Paulino Teixeira).
• Addison, John T., "The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 406-450.
• Chappell, Henry W.,  With Rob Roy McGregor and Todd Vermilyea, "Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence from Historical Records of the Federal Open Market Committee". MIT Press, January 2005.
• Guimarães, P.,  "A Simple Approach to Fit the Beta-Binomial Model," Stata Journal, 5(3), pp. 385-394, 2005.
• Jensen, Christian, "Privacy Practices of Internet Users: Self-Reports versus Observed Behavior," with Carlos Jensen and Colin Potts, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 63, pp. 203-227, 2005.
• McInnes, Melayne M. "Bobbing for Widgets: Compensating Wage Differentials,"  Journal of Economic Education (with Cathy Eckel, Jean Ensminger, Roland Fryer, Ronald Heiner, Gavin Samms, Katri Sieberg, Sara Solnick, Rick Wilson), Vol. 36 (2), 2005.
• McInnes, Melayne M., "Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects: Comment" American Economic Review, 95 (3), June 2005, 897-901. (with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and E. Elisabet Rutsröm).
• McInnes, Melayne M., "Temporal Stability of Estimates of Risk Aversion," Applied Financial Economics Letters, 1, 2005, 31-35. (with Glenn W. Harrison, Eric Johnson, and E. Elisabet Rutsröm).
• Woodward, Douglas P., "African Apparel Exports, AGOA, and the Trade Preference Illusion," Global Economy Journal, Volume 5 (2005): Number 3, Article 6 (with Robert Rolfe).
• Woodward, Douglas P., "Spending Stabilization Rules: A Solution to Recurring State Budget Crises?" Public Budgeting and Finance, Volume 25: Number 4 (Winter 2005): 105-124 (with Donald Schunk).

2004 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., "Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths Out of Unemployment," CESifo Forum, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 24-30 (with Pedro Portugal).
• Addison, John T., "Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?" Industrial Relations, Vol. 43, No. 2, April 2004, pp 305-323 (with Clive R. Belfield).
• Addison, John T., "The Reform of the German Works Constitution Act: A Critical Appraisal," Industrial Relations, Vol. 43, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 392-420 (with Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel, and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany," British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 125-148 (with Lutz Bellmann and Arnd Kölling).
• Addison, John T., "Union Voice," Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 25, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 563- 596 (with Clive R. Belfield).
• Addison, John T., "How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?" Economics Letters, 2004, Vol. 85, No. 2, November, pp. 229-234 (with Pedro Portugal).
• Addison, John T., "The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils," British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 42, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 255-281 (with Claus Schnabel, and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys," in Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Role of Unions – New Forms of Representation. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004, pp. 281-319.
• Blackburn, McKinley L. ,"Racial Disparities in Bank-Specific Mortgage Lending Models,"  Economics Letters, December 2004. (With Todd Vermilyea).
• Blackburn, McKinley L. ,"The Role of Test Scores in Explaining Race and Gender Differences in Wages,"  Economics of Education Review, December 2004.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher,  "An Exegesis on Currency and Banking Crises." Journal of Economic Surveys. August 2004. 18:293-320.
• Chappell, Henry W.,  With Rob Roy McGregor and Todd Vermilyea, "Majority Rule, Consensus Building, and the Power of the Chairman: Arthur Burns and the FOMC," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 36 (June 2004), pp. 407-422.
• Chappell, Henry W.,  With Rob Roy McGregor, "Did Time Consistency Contribute to the Great Inflation? Evidence from the FOMC Transcripts." Economics and Politics, (November 2004).
• Guimarães, P., "Understanding the Multinomial-Poisson Transformation," Stata Journal, 4(3), pp. 265-273, 2004.
• Guimarães, P., Figueiredo, O.,and   Woodward, D.,  "Industrial Location Modeling: Extending the Random Utility Framework," Journal of Regional Science, 44(1), pp. 1-20, 2004.
• McInnes, Melayne M., "The Influence of Malpractice Claims Experience on Rates of Cesarean Delivery: A Physician Level Analysis" Inquiry, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 170–188 (with Darren Grant), 2004.
• Woodward, Douglas P.,  "Footloose and Tax Free: Incentive Preferences in Kenyan Export Processing Zones," South African Journal of Economics, Volume 72 (4): (2004): 784-807 (with Robert Rolfe and Bernard Kagira).
• Woodward, Douglas P.,  "Foreign Firm Entry in an Open Economy: The Case of Portugal," Applied Economics. 36 (5): (2004) 465-72 (with Natália Barbosa and Paulo Guimarães, 2004).
• Woodward, Douglas P.,  "Attracting Foreign Investment Through Privatization: The Zambia Experience," Journal of African Business, 5 (1) Volume 5, Number 1 (2004) 5-27 (with Robert Rolfe).

2003 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., International Handbook of Trade Unions, Cheltenham, England, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2003 (with Claus Schnabel).
• Addison, John T., Labor Markets and Social Security, Berlin and New York: Springer Verlag, 2003 (2nd ed.) (with Paul J.J. Welfens).
• Addison, John T., "Unemployment Duration: A Competing Risks Model with Defective Risks," Journal of Human Resources, Volume 38, No. 1, Winter 2003, pp. 156-191 (with Pedro Portugal).
• Addison, John T., "German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage, and Determinants," Schmollers Jahrbuch, Volume 123, No. 3, 2003, pp. 339-358. (with Lutz Bellmann, Claus Schnabel, and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "New Evidence on Unions and Plant Closings: Britain in the 1990s," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 69, No. 4, April 2003, pp. 822-841 (with John S. Heywood and Xiangdong Wei).
• Addison, John T., "The Economics of Employment Protection," Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2003, pp. 85-129 (with Paulino Teixeira).
• Addison, John T., "The Economic Returns to Lifelong Learning in OECD Countries," in Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin (eds.), The Economics of Higher Education, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series No. 165, Cheltenham, England, and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2003, pp. 3-57 (with Elchanan Cohn).
• Blackburn, McKinley L. , "Racial Discrimination in Home Purchase Mortgage Lending Among Large National Banks." Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings. (With Todd Vermilyea)
• Blackburn, McKinley L. , "The Effects of the Welfare System on Marital Dissolution." Journal of Population Economics, August 2003.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher,  "The Commodity Composition of US-Japanese Trade and the Yen/Dollar Real Exchange Rate." (with Leianne Clements). Japan and the World Economy. August 2003. 15:307-30.
• Chappell, Henry W.,  Entries Prepared for the Encyclopedia of Public Choice. "Monetary Politics" and "Forecasting Presidential Elections in the United States," 2003.
• Guimarães,  P., Figueiredo, O., and Woodward,  D.,  "A Tractable Approach to the Firm Location Decision Problem," Review of Economics and Statistics. 84(1), pp. 201-204, 2003.
• Jensen, Christian, "The Non-Optimality of Proposed Monetary Policy Rules under Timeless-Perspective Commitment," with Bennett McCallum, Economics Letters, 77, pp. 163-168, 2003.
• McInnes, Melayne M., "Information and Insurance: An Experimental Investigation" Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2003 (with Susan Laury).
• Woodward, Douglas P.,  "Incentives and Economic Development: The Case of BMW in South Carolina," in Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century, Sammis B. White, Richard Bingham, and Edward W. Hill, eds. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, pp. 145-169 (with Donald Schunk).
• Woodward, Douglas P., "Adding a Stick to the Carrot: Economic Development Incentives with Clawbacks, Recisions, and Recalibrations." in Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century, Sammis B. White, Richard Bingham, and Edward W. Hill, eds. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, pp. 70-91; reprinted from Economic Development Quarterly (with Larry Ledebur).

2002 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., "Job Search Methods and Outcomes," Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 54, No. 3, July 2002, pp. 505-533 (with Pedro Portugal).
• Addison, John T., "What Do We Know About the New European Works Councils? Some Preliminary Evidence from Britain," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 49, No. 4, September 2002, pp. 418-444 (with Clive R. Belfield).
• Addison, John T., "Labor Policy in the EU: The New Emphasis on Education and Training under the Treaty of Amsterdam," Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 129-143.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher,  "Series-specific Unit Root Tests with Panel Data." (with Robert McNown and Myles Wallace). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. December 2002. 64:527-46.
• Chappell, Henry W.,  With Linda Veiga, "Politics and Unemployment in Industrialized Democracies," Public Choice, 110 (March 2002), pp.261-282.   
• Dismuke, C., Guimarães P., "Has the Caveat of Case-Mix Based Payment Influenced the Quality of Inpatient Hospital Care in Portugal?, Applied Economics. 34(10) pp. 1301-130, 2002.
• Guimarães, P., "The State of Portuguese Research in Economics: An Analysis Based on Publications in International Journals," Portuguese Economic Journal, 1(1) pp. 3-25. 2002.
• Figueiredo, O., Guimarães, P. and   Woodward,  D.,  "Home-field Advantage: Location Decisions of Portuguese Entrepreneurs," Journal of Urban Economics. 52(2) pp. 341-361, 2002.
• Figueiredo, O., Guimaraes, P. "Empirical Studies of Firm Location Determinants (in Portuguese)." in Compendio de Economia Regional. Portuguese Regional Science Association (APDR), 2002.
• McDermott, J., "Development Dynamics: Economic Integration and the Demographic Transition" Journal of Economic Growth (2002).
• McInnes, Melayne M., "Evaluating the Tobacco Settlement: Are the Damages Awards Too Much or Not Enough?" American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92 (6), June 2002 (with Maribeth Coller and Glenn Harrison)  
• McInnes, Melayne M., "The Effects of Managed Care on Referrals and the Quality of Physicians: Theory and Evidence" Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. L(4), December 2002 (with Gary Fournier).
• McInnes, Melayne M., "Cents on the Tobacco Dollar" Business and Economic Review, Vol. 48, No. 2, January, 2002 (with Maribeth Coller and Glenn Harrison)
• Woodward, Douglas P., "Coca- Cola as an Agent of Entrepreneurial Development in Emerging Economies," International Journal of Entrepreneurship, Volume 5 (2002) 1-18 (with Sandra Teel, and Richard Robinson).
• Woodward, Douglas P., "Home-Field Advantage: Location Decisions of Portuguese Entrepreneurs," Journal of Urban Economics, 52, (2002) 341-361 (with Paulo Guimarães, Octávio Figueiredo).

2001 Economics Publications

• Addison, John T., "Works Councils in Germany: Their Effects on Establishment Performance," Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 53, No. 4, October 2001, pp. 659-694 (with Claus Schnabel and Joachim Wagner).
• Addison, John T., "Updating the Determinants of Firm Performance: Estimation Using the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey," British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 341-366 (with Clive R. Belfield).
• Addison, John T., "Union Security in Britain with an Addendum on New Labour's Reforms," in Samuel Estreicher, Harry Katz, and Bruce Kaufman (eds.), The Internal Governance and Organizational Effectiveness of Labor Unions: Essays in Honor of George Brooks. New York: Kluwer Law International, 2001, pp. 249-278 (with W. S. Siebert).
• Addison, John T., "European Union Labor Market Directives and Initiatives," in Samuel Estreicher (ed.), Global Competition and the American Employment Landscape - As We Enter the 21st Century. New York: Kluwer Law International, 2001, pp. 691-738.
• Breuer, Janice Boucher, "Misleading Inferences in Panel Unit Root Tests: An Illustration from Purchasing Power Parity." (with Robert McNown and Myles Wallace). Review of International Economics. August 2001. 9:482-93.