Recently added articles from Business Economics:
From the editor.(economic conditions)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Well, gentle readers, you will have undoubtedly noted the new look of Business Economics. Beginning with this issue, we will be printed, published, and distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, joining their already extensive family of journals. Although the appearance of Business Economics is ...
Adam Smith and the political economy of a modern financial crisis.(Adam Smith Enterprises Inc.)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Financial crises have occurred periodically for hundreds of years, and Adam Smith had important insights into their causes. Although by no means all that we know about such crises has been derived from Smith, it is interesting and important to reflect on what he did know and how ignoring ...
Economic and financial climate change: a business economist's perspective.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Over the past 50 years, one of the key elements of the evolution of the world economy has been the increasing complexity of financial transactions. This complexity is manifested in financial layering and disintermediation that has increased risk in the real as well as the financial ...
The response of small business owners to changes in monetary policy.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The small business sector of the economy accounts for h0alf of private gross domestic product and well over half of private sector employment. Little is known about how these firms and the banks that serve them are affected by changes in monetary policy. Using data from the monthly surveys ...
The credit crunch of 2007-08: lessons private and public.
Jan 01, 2009; ... The current financial crisis has much in common with past crises. Poor investment strategies with respect to risk as well as poor evaluation have contributed to the current crisis. This paper presents the lessons to be learned by the private and public sectors. Why do crises keep ...
Health information technology and financing's next frontier: the potential of medical banking.
Jan 01, 2009; ... Calls to action for widespread adoption of electronic health records have come from a broad spectrum of the private and public sectors. The problem, to date, is not that information does not exist, as much as that the data have not been organized around the patient. An integrated Personal ...
American business and the new social regulation.(Forum on Emerging Issues)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Thomas A. Hemphill is an assistant professor in the School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint. Business Economics (2009) 44, 51-56. doi:10.1057/be.2008.3 Beginning in 2007, many U.S. industry associations radically adjusted their national political lobbying ...
Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Edward M. Gramlich, 2007. Urban Institute Press. Pp. 120, $26.50 paperback. Business Economics (2009) 44, 57-58. doi:10.1057/be.2008.4 For more than a year, in the United States and abroad, mortgage markets have been in turmoil. Foreclosure rates have risen, Wall ...
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... By Robert J. Samuelson, 2008. New York, NY: Random House. Pp. 336, $26.00 hardcover. Business Economics (2009) 44, 58-60. doi: 10.1057/be.2008.5 Robert J. Samuelson (no relation to Paul Anthony Samuelson of MIT) is an economics columnist for the Washington Post and ...
From the editor.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of the basic principles of Business Economics' editorial policy is that articles have shelf life: analysis and conclusions concerning events must be interesting and important for at least a year or two after the events take place. A quarterly journal is not the right forum to discuss ...
Current economic and financial conditions: extraordinary times have required extraordinary measures.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Good afternoon. I am pleased to have once again the opportunity to address the National Association for Business Economics. My remarks today will focus on recent developments in the financial sector and the economy and on the challenges we face. As you know, financial systems in ...
Reforming mortgage finance: five basic principles are critical.
Oct 01, 2008; ... I'm most honored to be here today. Thanks for inviting me to speak at your 50th annual meeting. For 50 years, NABE has worked to make the discipline of economics more accessible and more useful to its members. And your advocacy over the last decade for better data collection and more ...
Encouraging growth and stability: flexible labor and capital markets, low and efficient taxes, and openness to trade are essential.(Statistical table)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Good Morning. It is a pleasure to be able to address this group again, especially at this crucial point for the world economy. Given the events of the past few weeks, it is surely the expectation that 1 talk about the recent financial turmoil, the steps that we have taken to address the ...
The Baltics: Continuing boom or bursting bubble? A rocky short-run should not obscure a promising long-run.(Company overview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Since the late 1990s, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (the Baltics)--three small countries to the northwest of Russia--have experienced unprecedented annual growth, reaching double digits in some years. Naturally, this boom has attracted foreign investors, who have provided a substantial ...
The economics of private business jet travel: new ownership models expand available choices.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Private aircraft, especially jets, account for a growing share of the premium business travel market. Since jets account for the bulk of this market and their share is growing at the expense of turboprops (see Table 1), the discussion that follows will focus on jets. The use of private or ...
Globalization and the U.S. defense industrial base: the competition for a new aerial refueling tanker: what are the real issues?
Oct 01, 2008; ... The growth in the global economy and the trend toward outsourcing have given rise to concerns over the composition and strength of the U.S. industrial base, as well as the degree to which the United States is dependent on other countries for certain goods and commodities. These concerns ...
Economists in a world of financial ruin.(ECONOMICS AT WORK)
Oct 01, 2008; ... "If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid." --JM Keynes With the global financial system in a shambles, it is a good time to consider the role of economists in firms in this ...
The global management consulting sector.(FOCUS ON INDUSTRIES AND MARKETS)
Oct 01, 2008; ... While other practices or professions trace their roots back several centuries, management consulting is less than 150 years old. However, this sector has made giant strides in the West, especially in the United States, from the 1930s to the present and in Western Europe since the 1950s ....
Economic Facts and Fallacies.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... By Thomas Sowell. 2008. New York, NY, Basic Books. Pp. 272. $26.00 hardcover. In this book, Thomas Sowell, the well-known conservative African-American economist, marshals volumes of facts from statistics, history, and economics and assorted other disciplines to dispel "false ...
Predictably Irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... By Dan Ariely. 2008. New York, NY: HarperCollins. Pp. 304. $25.95 hardcover. Written in a lively style by a leading behavioral economist, Predictably Irrational is perhaps the most enjoyable economics book around. It draws on material from the author's own life and presents ...