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Edward Tower

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Working papers

  1. Rodriguez, Abel & Tower, Edward, 2007. "Do Vanguard's Managed Funds Beat Its Index Funds? Looking for Prescient Stock and Style Selection Draft 1," Working Papers 07-03, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  2. Tower, Edward, 2007. "Are GMO's Predictions Prescient? Using them to predict Vanguard's Mutual Fund Returns," Working Papers 07-01, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  3. Tower, Edward & Grabowski, Henry & Gokcekus, Omer & Adams, Mike, 2005. "How did the 2003 Prescription Drug Re-importation Bill Pass the House?," Working Papers 05-01, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Tower, Edward & Zheng, Wei, 2004. "Fidelity versus Vanguard: Comparing the Performance of the Two Largest Mutual Fund Families," Working Papers 04-08, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  5. Tower, Edward & Reinker, Kenneth S., 2004. "Index Fundamentalism Revisited," Working Papers 04-07, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 2003. "An Efficiency Enhancing Minimum Wage," Working Papers 03-01, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Gokcekus, Omer & Knowles, Justin & Tower, Edward, 2003. "Sweetening the Pot: How American Sugar Buys Protection," Working Papers 03-08, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  8. Reinker, Kenneth S. & Tower, Edward, 2002. "Predicting Equity Returns for 37 Countries: Tweaking the Gordon Formula," Working Papers 02-22, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  9. Kaempfer, William H. & Tower, Edward & Willett, Thomas D., 2002. "Trade Protectionism," Working Papers 02-20, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  10. Gibbs, Ryan & Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 2002. "Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions," Working Papers 02-31, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  11. William Kaempfer & Ed Tower & Thomas D. Willett, 2002. "Trade Protectionism - Encyclopedia Entry," Claremont Colleges Working Papers 2002-19, Claremont Colleges. [Downloadable!]

  12. Fisher, Robert C. & Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 2002. "'Steeling' House Votes at Low Prices for the Steel Import Quota Bill of 1999," Working Papers 02-24, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  13. Harney, Matthew & Tower, Edward, 2002. "Rational Pessimism: Predicting Equity Returns using Tobin's q and Price/Earnings Ratios," Working Papers 02-29, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  14. Phillips, Joshua J. & Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 2002. "School Choice: Money, Race And Congressional Voting Behavior," Working Papers 02-27, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  15. Tower, Edward & Gokcekus, Omer, 2002. "Evaluating A Buy and Hold Strategy for the S&P 500 Index," Working Papers 02-01, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  16. Tower, Ed & Gokcekus, Omer, 1997. "The Effects of Import Quotas on National Welfare: Comment," Working Papers 97-18, Duke University, Department of Economics.

  17. Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 1996. "Can a Periodic VER Raise Importing Country Welfare?," Working Papers 96-26, Duke University, Department of Economics.

  18. Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 1996. "Does Trade Liberalization Benefit Young and Old Alike?," Working Papers 96-35, Duke University, Department of Economics.
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  19. Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 1996. "Should the Capital Account Be Liberalized in a Minimum Real Wage Economy?," Working Papers 96-09, Duke University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

  20. Grimes, Mark & Tower, Edward, 1996. "The Optimum Minimum Wage When Labor Services are Taxed," Working Papers 96-13, Duke University, Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Edward Tower & Wei Zheng, 2008. "Ranking mutual fund families: minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude," International Review of Economics, Springer, vol. 55(4), pages 315-350, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  2. Edward Tower, 2006. "The Encyclopedia of Public Choice," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 127(3), pages 491-494, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  3. Omer Gokcekus & Mike Adams & Henry Grabowski & Edward Tower, 2006. "How Did The 2003 Prescription Drug Re-Importation Bill Pass The House?," Economics and Politics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 18(1), pages 27-45, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Omer Gokcekus & Joshua J. Phillips & Edward Tower, 2004. "School Choice: Money, Race, and Congressional Voting on Vouchers," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 119(1_2), pages 241-254, 04. [Downloadable!]

  5. Omer Gokcekus & Edward Tower, 2003. "An Efficiency Enhancing Minimum Wage," Journal of Policy Reform, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 6(4), pages 247-259, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Ryan Gibbs & Omer Gokcekus & Edward Tower, 2002. "Is Talk Cheap?," Journal of Policy Reform, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(3), pages 127-131, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  7. Gilbert, John & Tower, Edward, 2002. "Protectionism, labor mobility, and immiserizing growth in developing economies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 75(1), pages 135-140, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  8. Gokcekus, Omer & Tower, Edward, 1998. "Does Trade Liberalization Benefit Young and Old Alike?," Review of International Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 6(1), pages 50-58, February.
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  9. Baker, Arnold & Gross, Felicia & Tower, Edward, 1997. "Super 301 trade sanctions: An empirical investigation of the wood products case," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 8(1), pages 39-55. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  10. Pinsky, Laura & Tower, Edward, 1995. "Temporary duty suspension in the United States," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 6(1), pages 17-36. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  11. Gang, Ira N & Tower, Edward, 1990. "Allocating Jobs under a Minimum Wage: Queues vs. Lotteries," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 66(194), pages 186-94, September.

  12. Weber, Christian & Tower, Edward, 1990. "Empirical models of the effects of United States protection: A survey of recent literature," North American Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 1(1), pages 163-179. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  13. Copeland, Brian R & Tower, Edward & Webb, Michael A, 1989. "On Negotiated Quotas, Tariffs, and Transfers," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 41(4), pages 774-88, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  14. Edward Tower, 1988. "Explaining the Yeh Paradox: A Comment [The Maximum Revenue Tariff vs. Transfer Payments]," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 14(2), pages 189-192, Apr-Jun. [Downloadable!]

  15. Csaplar, Wilfrid W, Jr & Tower, Edward, 1988. "Trade and Industrial Policy under Oligopoly: Comment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 103(3), pages 599-602, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  16. Gang, Ira N. & Tower, Edward, 1988. "The Stahl-Alexeev paradox: A note," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 189-191, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  17. Tower, Edward & Pursell, Garry G, 1987. "On Shadow Pricing Labour and Foreign Exchange," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 39(2), pages 318-32, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  18. Pursell, Gary & Tower, Edward, 1987. "DRC criteria : Comment on Lucas," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 163-167, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  19. Lucas, Robert E. B. & Pursell, Garry & Tower, Edward, 1987. "Resolution Ex ante versus ex post DRC's and the possibility of negative shadow prices," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 26(1), pages 173-174, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  20. Edward Tower & Garry G. Pursell & Kiyoun Han, 1987. "Shadow Pricing in a Specific-factors Model: Comment," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 20(2), pages 399-402, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  21. Edward Tower, 1987. "Comments On Tumlir," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 5(2), pages 13-15, 04. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  22. Edward Tower, 1986. "Industrial Policy In Less Developed Countries," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 4(1), pages 23-35, 01. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  23. Daniel, Betty C. & Fried, Harold O. & Tower, Edward, 1985. "On the dynamic non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas in the monetary model of the balance of payments: Comment," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(3-4), pages 373-379, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  24. Thomas D. Willett & Edward Tower & D. B. Christenson, 1984. "International Trade And Protectionism: Introduction The Relevance Of Modern Economic Research," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 2(4), pages 1-5, 01. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  25. Tower, Edward, 1983. "On the best use of trade controls in the presence of foreign market power," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(3-4), pages 349-365, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  26. Tower, Edward, 1982. "Inflation and unemployment in open economies : Assar Lindbeck, ed. (North-Holland, Amsterdam, New York and Oxford, 1979) pp. vii and 338, $58.75," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(1-2), pages 196-199, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  27. Hartigan, James C & Tower, Edward, 1982. "Trade Policy and the American Income Distribution," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 64(2), pages 261-70, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  28. William Kaempfer & Edward Tower, 1982. "The balance of payments approach to trade tax symmetry theorems," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 118(1), pages 148-165, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  29. Tower, Edward, 1981. "Buffer stocks are better stabilizers than quotas," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 113-115, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  30. Edward Tower, 1980. "The choice between a tariff and a quota : Comment," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 116(3), pages 580-581, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  31. Peter Kennedy & Edward Tower, 1980. "Excess Demand in the IS-LM Model," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 6(1), pages 53-56, January. [Downloadable!]

  32. Arye L. Hillman & Edward Tower & Gideon Fishelson, 1980. "On Water in the Quota," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 13(2), pages 310-17, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  33. Edward Tower, 1979. "The geometry of community indifference curves," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 115(4), pages 680-700, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  34. Tower, Edward, 1979. "Economic imperialism and resource nationalism : Comment on Kemp and Ohyama," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 423-427, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  35. Pedersson, George & Tower, Edward, 1979. "On the long and short run relationship between the forward rate and the interest parity," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 1(1), pages 65-77. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  36. Dutton, John & Tower, Edward, 1979. "Imperfect Competition and the Resource Allocative Effects of Effective Protection: Comment," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(3), pages 561-63, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  37. Edward Tower, 1978. "The Optimum Incentive-Schedule Tariff," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 11(4), pages 726-33, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  38. Sweeney, Richard J. & Tower, Edward & Willett, Thomas D., 1977. "The ranking of alternative tariff and quota policies in the presence of domestic monopoly," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 349-362, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  39. Tower, Edward, 1977. "Dynamic Stability and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 87(345), pages 81-95, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  40. Tower, Edward, 1977. "Ranking the optimum tariff and the maximum revenue tariff," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(1), pages 73-79, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  41. Kemp, Murray C & Tower, Edward, 1976. "On the Shape of the Trade Indifference Curve: Rejoinder to Batra," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 66(4), pages 709, September.

  42. Tower, Edward, 1976. "The Estimation of the Cost of Adjustment to External Disequilibria: Comment," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 58(3), pages 382-83, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  43. Edward Tower, 1976. "The Optimum Tariff Retaliation and Autarky," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 3(2), pages 72-75, April. [Downloadable!]

  44. Tower, Edward, 1975. "The Optimum Quota and Retaliation," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(4), pages 623-30, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  45. Tower, Edward, 1975. "On the functional relationship between tariffs and welfare," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(2), pages 189-199, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  46. Edward Tower, 1975. "Money demand and the terms of trade," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 111(4), pages 623-633, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  47. Kemp, Murray C & Tower, Edward, 1975. "Nontraded Goods, Factor Market Distortions, and the Gains from Trade: Comment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 65(1), pages 249-50, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  48. Tower, Edward & Courtney, Mark M, 1974. "Exchange Rate Flexibility and Macro-Economic Stability," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 56(2), pages 215-24, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  49. Tower, Edward, 1973. "Commercial Policy Under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 87(3), pages 436-54, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  50. Tower, Edward, 1972. "The Short-Run Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 48(123), pages 411-23, September.

  51. Tower, Edward & Willett, Thomas D, 1972. "More on Official versus Market Financing of Payments Deficits and the Optimal Pricing of International Reserves," Kyklos, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 25(3), pages 537-52.

  52. Tower, Edward, 1972. "Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a World of Capital Mobility: A Respecification," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 39(3), pages 251-62, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  53. Tower, Edward, 1972. "Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates in the Inter-run," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 4(4), pages 877-96, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  54. Willett, Thomas O & Tower, Edward, 1971. "The Welfare Economics of International Adjustment," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 26(2), pages 287-302, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  55. Tower, Edward, 1971. "More on the Welfare Cost of Inflationary Finance," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 3(4), pages 850-60, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  56. Thomas Willett & Edward Tower, 1970. "Currency areas and exchange-rate flexibility," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 105(1), pages 48-65, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  57. RePEc:oup:coecpo:v:0:y:1984:i:4:p:1-5 is not listed on IDEAS

  58. RePEc:oup:coecpo:v:4:y:1986:i:1:p:23-35 is not listed on IDEAS

  59. RePEc:oup:coecpo:v:5:y:1987:i:2:p:13-15 is not listed on IDEAS

Software components

  1. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Short Run Production," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200904, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  2. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Transition," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200906, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  3. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Autarky (HOS)," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200908, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  4. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Small Open Economy (Specific Factors)," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200911, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  5. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Large Open Economy (Specific Factors)," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200915, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  6. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Utility Maximization," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200901, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  7. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Dual HOS," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200905, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  8. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Higher Dimensions and Production," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200907, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  9. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Cost Minimization," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200902, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  10. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Large Open Economy (HOS)," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200914, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  11. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Autarky (Specific Factors)," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200909, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  12. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Small Open Economy (HOS)," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200910, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  13. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Heckscher-Ohlin Model," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200912, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  14. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Heckscher-Ohlin Vanek Model," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200913, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

  15. John Gilbert & Edward Tower, 2009. "Long Run Production," GAMS Models for Trade Theory 200903, Utah State University, Department of Economics and Finance. [Downloadable!]

NEP Fields

15 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 2003-02-18
  2. NEP-CFN: Corporate Finance (2) 2003-02-18 2003-04-27
  3. NEP-FIN: Finance (1) 2003-02-18
  4. NEP-FMK: Financial Markets (2) 2003-02-18 2003-02-18
  5. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2005-02-01
  6. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2003-02-18
  7. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2003-02-18
  8. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (5) 2003-02-18 2003-02-18 2003-02-18 2003-07-10 2005-02-01 Author is listed
  9. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (1) 2003-02-18
  10. NEP-RMG: Risk Management (2) 2005-02-01 2005-02-01
  11. NEP-URE: Urban & Real Estate Economics (1) 2003-02-18
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