Publications

by members of

Economics Department
Macalester College
St. Paul, Minnesota (United States)

Working papers

2007

1. Robertson, Raymond & Gonzalez, Gabriel Martinez & Kaplan, David S., 2007. "Mexican employment dynamics : evidence from matched firm-worker data," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4433, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Parry, Ian W.H. & Laxminarayan, Ramanan & West, Sarah E., 2006. "Fiscal and Externality Rationales for Alcohol Taxes," Discussion Papers dp-06-51, Resources For the Future. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Raymond Robertson & Mark Skidmore & Hideki Toya, 2005. "A Reevaluation of the Effect of Human Capital Accumulation on Economic Growth: Using Natural Disasters as an Instrument," Working Papers 05-08, UW-Whitewater, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Andrew B. Bernard & Raymond Robertson & Peter K. Schott, 2005. "A Note on the Empirical Implementation of the Lens Condition," NBER Working Papers 11448, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Kaplan, David & Martinez, Gabriel & Robertson, Raymond, 2005. "What Happens to Wages After Displacement?," MPRA Paper 3079, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams, 2004. "Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second-Best Setting," NBER Working Papers 10330, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams III, 2004. "Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second- Best Setting," Public Economics 0402005, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Andrew B. Bernard & Raymond Robertson & Peter K. Schott, 2004. "Is Mexico A Lumpy Country?," NBER Working Papers 10898, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams III, 2002. "Estimates from a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes," NBER Working Papers 9152, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Jane Ihrig & Karine S. Moe, 2000. "The dynamics of informal employment," International Finance Discussion Papers 664, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
2. Don Fullerton & Sarah West, 2000. "Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution," NBER Working Papers 7774, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. Don Fullerton & Sarah West, 1999. "Can Taxes on Cars and on Gasoline Mimic an Unavailable Tax on Emissions?," NBER Working Papers 7059, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Gordon H. Hanson & Raymond Robertson & Antonio Spilimbergo, 1999. "Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?," NBER Working Papers 7054, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Hanson, G.H. & Robertson, R. & Spilimbergo, A., 1999. "Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?," Working Papers 438, Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan.
4. J. Peter Ferderer & Stephen C. Vogt & Ravi Chalil, 1999. "Liquidity, Uncertainty, and the Declining Predictive Power of the Paper-Bill Spread," Macroeconomics 9904007, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
5. J. Peter Ferderer, 1999. "Credibility of the Interwar Gold Standard, Uncertainty, and the Great Depression," Macroeconomics 9907002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
6. J. Peter Ferderer, 1999. "The Credibility of the Federal Reserve's Monetary Targets," Macroeconomics 9903006, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2007

1. West, Sarah E. & Williams III, Roberton C., 2007. "Optimal taxation and cross-price effects on labor supply: Estimates of the optimal gas tax," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(3-4), pages 593-617, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Anderson, Soren T. & West, Sarah E., 2006. "Open space, residential property values, and spatial context," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(6), pages 773-789, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2005

1. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams III, 2005. "The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 294-299, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Raymond Robertson, 2005. "Has," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 19(3), pages 425-448.
3. Ferderer, J. Peter, 2005. "Institutional Innovation and the Creation of Liquid Financial Markets: The Case of Bankers' Acceptances, 1914 1934," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 63(03), pages 666-694, February. [Downloadable!]
4. Ferderer, Peter, 2005. "Marc Flandreau, Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich and Harold James (eds.), International Financial History in the Twentieth Century: System and Anarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 288pp. 45)," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 12(02), pages 322-324, October. [Downloadable!]
5. Ferderer, J. Peter, 2005. "The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876 1932. By Noel Maurer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 250. $60.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 63(03), pages 883-885, February. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Ihrig, Jane & Moe, Karine S., 2004. "Lurking in the shadows: the informal sector and government policy," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 541-557, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. West, Sarah E., 2004. "Distributional effects of alternative vehicle pollution control policies," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(3-4), pages 735-757, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. West, Sarah E. & Williams, R.C.Roberton III, 2004. "Estimates from a consumer demand system: implications for the incidence of environmental taxes," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 47(3), pages 535-558, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Robertson, Raymond, 2004. "Relative prices and wage inequality: evidence from Mexico," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(2), pages 387-409, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Roberto Alvarez & Raymond Robertson, 2004. "Exposure to foreign markets and plant-level innovation: evidence from Chile and Mexico," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 57-87, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Robertson, Raymond, 2003. "Exchange rates and relative wages: evidence from Mexico," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 14(1), pages 25-48, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Fullerton, Don & West, Sarah E., 2002. "Can Taxes on Cars and on Gasoline Mimic an Unavailable Tax on Emissions?," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 135-157, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Gordon H. Hanson & Raymond Robertson & Antonio Spilimbergo, 2002. "Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers From Illegal Immigration?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 84(1), pages 73-92, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Robertson, Raymond & Dutkowsky, Donald H., 2002. "Labor adjustment costs in a destination country: the case of Mexico," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 67(1), pages 29-54, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. Levison, Deborah & Moe, Karine S. & Marie Knaul, Felicia, 2001. "Youth Education and Work in Mexico," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 167-188, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Cristina Echevarria, Karine S. Moe, 2000. "On The Need For Gender In Dynamic Models," Feminist Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 6(2), pages 77-96, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Raymond Robertson, 2000. "Wage Shocks and North American Labor-Market Integration," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 90(4), pages 742-764, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Karine S. Moe, 1998. "Fertility, Time Use, and Economic Development," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(3), pages 699-718, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Peter Ferderer, J., 1998. "The determinants of monetary target credibility," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 38(4), pages 825-841. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Peter Ferderer, J., 1996. "Oil price volatility and the macroeconomy," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 1-26. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1993

1. Ferderer, J. Peter & Shadbegian, Ronald, 1993. "A comparison of alternative term premium estimates," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 179-195. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Ferderer, J Peter, 1993. "The Impact of Uncertainty on Aggregate Investment Spending: An Empirical Analysis," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 25(1), pages 30-48, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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