A survey of the literature reveals that the burial and exhumation of the business cycle are themselves cyclical events. The most recent advance in business cycle theory is the "Rational Expectations" school; however, this ...

A recent trend in economics has been to relate macroeconomic theory to its microeconomic foundations. Of particular interest for this study is the part of this trend involving the link between aspects of monetary theory ...

Both House Republicans' 2016 tax plan and, more recently, President Trump's tax plan envision a rate cut for the corporate income tax (CIT): from the current 35% to 20% (the House plan) or 15% (the president's plan). To ...

Roughly one third of Medicare expenditures are made on behalf of beneficiaries in their terminal year, though only five percent of the Medicare-covered population dies annually. Per-capita spending on decedents is as much ...

While the currency-deposit ratio plays an important role in monetary economics, only a limited amount of research has been done on it. The work that has been done has approached the subject from the demand side. A ...

Looking beyond today’s fiscal problems in the U.S., the debate about the how to best incorporate the well-being of subsequent generations in current public policy discussions continues. Authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to characterize the job-separation behavior of new entry-level employees. The specific case considered is that of enlistees in the U.S. Air Force, from September 1974 to August 1977. Two ...

In this dissertation, Industrial Policy proposals are critically analyzed and a theoretical methodology developed which may be used to structure the policy debate. The methodology draws heavily from existing international ...