Atlantic Economic Journal back issues from December 2004:
Monetary policy and EMU enlargement: the adoption of the euro.(Economic and Monetary Union)
Dec 01, 2004; ... On May 1, 2004, in the fifth enlargement round, ten more countries, (1) eight of which are from central and eastern Europe, became members of the European Union (EU). (2) The final monetary objective of EU accession and, indeed, a treaty obligation for these countries, is the adoption of ...
The ERM II issues: an interpretation of the Slovenian approach.(Enterprise Resource Management )
Dec 01, 2004; ... Introduction On the May 1, 2004, Slovenia joined the European Union. As with all the new accession states, it entered the EU with a derogation clause, the commitment to eventually adopt the euro for its domestic currency. While the adoption of the euro is binding, the timing and ...
Poland and the euro zone enlargement: monetary policy, ERM II, and other issues.(Enterprise Resource Management )
Dec 01, 2004; ... Introduction Together with nine other countries Poland joined the European Union in May 2004. On the one hand, this event can be seen as a corollary of the success of Poland's 15-year transition from a planned economy to a market system. On the other hand, this event has clearly ...
Monetary policy and EMU enlargement: issues regarding ERM II and adoption of the euro in Estonia.(Economic and Monetary Union and Enterprise Resource Management )
Dec 01, 2004; ... Official Position on Membership in ERM II and the Euro Adoption Estonian authorities have declared that Estonia seeks to join the European Economic and Monetary Union as soon as possible, with the goal of being technically prepared to adopt the euro in mid-2006. The Estonian ...
Adoption of the euro: why is the Czech approach cautious?(analysis of Czech Republic's economic policy)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Convergence Criteria In May 2004, the Czech Republic became a new member of the European Union (EU). The celebrations will be short for Czech policymakers, since there is no time to rest. Now that the Copenhagen criteria have been fulfilled, another task awaits them. The new ...
A theory of reciprocal gifts.(research)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Introduction Gift giving and gift receiving are features of traditional as well as modern societies. Gifts are regularly exchanged during business transactions, weddings, birthdays, baby showers, farewell parties, and many other occasions. Why do we to give gifts? If gifts are ...
Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of Funds.(book)(Book Review)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Health Economics: Fundamentals and Flow of funds Thomas Getzen, 2004, pp. 464 Introduction Healthcare has increased its share of U.S. GDP from 5.7 percent in 1929 to 14.7 percent in 2002 [Getzen, p. 7]. Given the increasing number and proportion of ...
Learning style appropriate study methods the benefits of awareness.(Anthology)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The author has discovered that few economic students are aware of their learning style, causing inefficient employment of study methods. To solve the problem of learning style awareness, the author prepared and presented an 80-minute lecture on study techniques appropriate for various ...
Pricing default risk premium through fear of ruin.(Anthology)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Pricing the default risk premium is becoming a growing compelling challenge for every risk financial manager. The worldwide explosion of credit derivative products like Credit Default Swaps makes evidence on this fact. According to the classical approach based on the zero-utility ...
An analysis of infant mortality rates in the U.S.(Anthology)
Dec 01, 2004; ... For individual groups and nations, there is abundant evidence of a strong quantitative association between measures of economic status and a variety of health outcomes, such as mortality and morbidity [J.P. Smith, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999]. When the reference group is ...
Health care expenditures in Africa: an econometric analysis.(Anthology)(Brief Article)
Dec 01, 2004; ... This paper empirically identifies some of the determinants of health care expenditure, in African countries, using the most recent available cross-sectional data. While there have been many econometric investigations of health care expenditure in OECD countries and the U.S. [Newhouse, ...
eBay prices vs. book prices: the market for baseball cards.(Anthology)
Dec 01, 2004; ... The market for individual baseball cards is unique, being completely a secondary market. Although there are several companies selling baseball cards, they are sold in packs. Cards of particular value are inserted randomly into these packs. The value of individual baseball cards was ...
A new test for moral hazard and hit batsmen.(Anthology)(ethical aspects of designated hitters and pitchers)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Goff, Shughart, and Tollison (GST) [Economic Inquiry, 1997] argue that the introduction of the designated hitter (DH) into the American League (AL) created the potential for moral hazard by AL pitchers who would no longer bat and would, therefore, be immune from retaliation for hitting the ...