Publications

by members of

Economic Policy Institute
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)

Working papers

2008

1. Robert A. Blecker, 2008. "External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico 1979–2006," Working Papers 2008-04, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Robert A. Blecker & Mario Seccareccia, 2008. "Would a North American monetary union protect Canada and Mexico against the ravages of “Dutch disease”?," Working Papers 2008-07, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Robert A. Blecker & Arslan Razmi, 2007. "The Fallacy of Composition and Contractionary Devaluations: The Output Impact of Real Exchange Rate Shocks in Developing Countries that Export Manufactures," Working Papers 2007-02, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Joydeep Roy & Catherine A. Pattillo & J. J. Polak, 2007. "Measuring the Effect of Foreign Aid on Growth and Poverty Reduction or The Pitfalls of Interaction Variables," IMF Working Papers 07/145, International Monetary Fund. [Downloadable!]
3. Rajashri Chakrabarti & Joydeep Roy, 2007. "Effect of redrawing of political boundaries on voting patterns: evidence from state reorganization in India," Staff Reports 301, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Robert A. Blecker, 2006. "Macroeconomic and Structural Constraints on Export-Led Growth in Mexico," Working Papers 2006-05, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
2. Robert A. Blecker, 2006. "The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for US Manufacturing Investment: A Time-Series Analysis," Working Papers 2006-07, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
3. Arslan Razmi & Robert A. Blecker, 2006. "Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?," Working Papers 2006-06, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
4. Robert A. Blecker & Arslan Razmi, 2006. "Unpublished Statistical Appendix to: Price Competition and the Fallacy of Composition in Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Estimates of Short-Run Growth Effects," Working Papers 2006-11, American University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
5. Heather Boushey & Christian E. Weller, 2006. "Inequality and Household Economic Hardship in the United States of America," Working Papers 18, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Arslan Razmi & Robert Blecker, 2005. "Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?," Working Papers 2005-02, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics, revised May 2006. [Downloadable!]
2. Arslan Razmi & Robert Blecker, 2005. "Price Competition and the Fallacy of Composition in Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Estimates of Short-Run Growth Effects," Working Papers 2005-18, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2006. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Joydeep Roy, 2004. "Impact of School Finance Reform on Resource Equalization and Academic Performance: Evidence from Michigan," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 425, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]
2. Joydeep Roy, 2004. "Redistributing Educational Attainment: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment in India," Development and Comp Systems 0412001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Joydeep Roy, 2004. "Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan," Public Economics 0412004, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. Sean P. Corcoran & William N. Evans & Robert S. Schwab, 2002. "Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers 1957-1992," NBER Working Papers 9180, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. Robert A. Blecker, 1998. "International Capital Mobility, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Risk of Global Contraction," SCEPA Working Papers 1998-10, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School, revised Nov 2000. [Downloadable!]

1996

1. Robert E. Scott & Robert A. Blecker, 1996. "Labor Rents, Ajustment Costs, and the Cost of U.S. Steel Trade Restraints in the 1980s," International Trade 9604001, EconWPA, revised 25 Apr 1996. [Downloadable!]
2. Robert A. Blecker, 1996. "NAFTA, the Peso Crisis, and the Contradictions of the Mexican Economic Growth Strategy," SCEPA Working Papers 1996-04, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2009

1. Blecker, Robert A., 2009. "External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1979-2007," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 37(7), pages 1274-1284, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Christian Weller, 2009. "You Can Eat Your Cake and Have It, Too," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 52(1), pages 67-86, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Christian Weller, 2009. "Credit Access, the Costs of Credit and Credit Market Discrimination," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 7-28, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Christian E. Weller & Amanda M. Logan, 2009. "Measuring Middle Class Economic Security," Journal of Economic Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 43(2), pages 327-336, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Weller, Christian E. & Wenger, Jeffrey B., 2009. "Prudent investors: the asset allocation of public pension plans," Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(04), pages 501-525, October. [Downloadable!]

2008

1. Robert A. Blecker & Arslan Razmi, 2008. "The fallacy of composition and contractionary devaluations: output effects of real exchange rate shocks in semi-industrialised countries," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 32(1), pages 83-109, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Arslan Razmi & Robert Blecker, 2008. "Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?," The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 44(1), pages 21-48. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Heather Boushey & Christian Weller, 2008. "Has Growing Inequality Contributed to Rising Household Economic Distress?," Review of Political Economy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 20(1), pages 1-22. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Weller, Christian E., 2008. "C. Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists , Basic Books, New York, NY (2005) 321 pp.," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 451-453, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Christian Weller, 2008. "The Erosion of Middle-Class Economic Security After 2001," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 51(1), pages 45-68, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Weller, Christian E., 2008. "T.L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century--Updated and Expanded , Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, New York, NY (2006) 593 pp.," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 37(2), pages 887-889, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. Robert A. Blecker, 2007. "The Economic Consequences of Dollar Appreciation for US Manufacturing Investment: A Time-Series Analysis," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 21(4), pages 491-517. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Stoddard, Christiana & Corcoran, Sean P., 2007. "The political economy of school choice: Support for charter schools across states and school districts," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 62(1), pages 27-54, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Christian Weller, 2007. "The Presence of Multinational Banks and the Supply and Quality of Credit in Emerging Economies," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 21(2), pages 273-292. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Christian Weller & Derek Douglas, 2007. "One Nation Under Debt," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 50(1), pages 54-75, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Christian Weller & Kate Sabatini, 2007. "The Financial Vulnerability of Families," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 50(3), pages 72-98, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Christian Weller, 2006. "Review," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 49(2), pages 63-67, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Christian E. Weller, 2006. "The Recent Stock Market Fluctuations and Retirement Income Adequacy," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 32(1), pages 67-81, Winter. [Downloadable!]
3. Christian Weller, 2006. "The Middle Class Falls Back," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 49(1), pages 16-43, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Christian E. Weller, 2006. "Social Security Privatization and Market Risk," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 23(2), pages 531-548, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2005

1. Christian Weller & Dean Baker, 2005. "Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under-funding?," Journal of Policy Reform, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 131-151, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. L. Josh Bivens & Christian Weller, 2005. "DISTURBING ECONOMIC MYSTERIES: The Causes of the "Job Loss" Recovery," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 48(2), pages 23-47, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Nathaniel Loewentheil & Christian E. Weller, 2005. "The Renter Squeeze: Minority and Low-Income Renters Feel Pressures from Housing Boom and Weak Labor Market," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 22(6), pages 755-770, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Sean P. Corcoran & William N. Evans & Robert M. Schwab, 2004. "Changing Labor-Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers, 1957–2000," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(2), pages 230-235, May. [Downloadable!]
2. Christian E. Weller, 2004. "The future of public pensions in the OECD," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 28(4), pages 489-504, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Christian Weller & Josh Bivens & Max Sawicky, 2004. "Macro Policy Lessons from the Recent Recession," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 47(3), pages 42-72, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Christian E. Weller & Adam Hersh, 2004. "The long and short of it: global liberalization and the incomes of the poor," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 26(3), pages 471-504, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Christian Weller, 2004. "The US Current Account Deficit," New Economy, Institute for Public Policy Research, vol. 11(4), pages 243-248, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Christian Weller & Laura Singleton, 2004. "Political Freedom, External Liberalization and Financial Stability," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 1-22, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Robert Blecker, 2003. "Why the Dollar Needs to Fall Further," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 46(5), pages 15-36, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Robert A. Blecker, 2003. "The North American Economies After NAFTA : A Critical Appraisal," International Journal of Political Economy, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 33(3), pages 5-27, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Adam Hersh & Christian Weller, 2003. "Does Manufacturing Matter?," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 46(2), pages 59-79, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Blecker, Robert A & Seguino, Stephanie, 2002. "Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing Gender Wage Inequality in an Export-Oriented, Semi-industrialized Economy," Review of Development Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 6(1), pages 103-19, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Christian Weller, 2002. "Don't Raise the Retirement Age," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 45(1), pages 75-87, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Christian Weller, 2002. "Austerity or Bust? Argentina's Options for Economic Revival," Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 45(3), pages 44-57, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. Christian E Weller & Mark Scher, 2001. "Multinational Bank Credit in Less Industrialized Economies," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, vol. 32(4), pages 833-851, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Weller, Christian E., 2001. "Riccardo Bellofiore (Ed.), Global Money, Capital Restructuring, and the Changing Patterns of Labor," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 198-200, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Christian E. Weller, 2000. "Financial Liberalization, Multinational Banks and Credit Supply: the case of Poland," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 193-211, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Christian E. Weller & Bernard Morzuch, 2000. "International Financial Contagion: Why are Eastern Europe's banks not failing when everybody else's are?," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 8(3), pages 639-663, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1997

1. Scott, Robert E & Blecker, Robert A, 1997. "Labour Rents, Adjustment Costs and the Cost of US Steel Trade Restraints in the 1980s," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 399-419, September.
2. Blecker, Robert A, 1997. "The 'Unnatural and Retrograde Order': Adam Smith's Theories of Trade and Development Reconsidered," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 64(255), pages 527-37, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Blecker, Robert A., 1996. "The new economic integration: Structuralist models of North-South trade and investment liberalization," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 7(3), pages 321-345, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1991

1. Blecker, Robert A, 1991. "Import Competition, Investment Finance, and Cumulative Decline in the U.S. Steel Industry, 1962-1981," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 171-95, May.

1989

1. Blecker, Robert A, 1989. "International Competition, Income Distribution and Economic Growth," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 13(3), pages 395-412, September.
2. Blecker, Robert A., 1989. "The dynamics of a capitalist economy: A multisectoral approach : Richard M. Goodwin and Lionello F. Punzo(Westview Press, Boulder, and Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987) pp. xiv + 402, $48.50," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 149-153, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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