Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2024

Current editor(s): Brad R. Humphreys

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Volume 42, issue 4, 2024

The evolution of structural gravity: The workhorse model of trade pp. 578-603

Yoto Yotov

How much would it cost to guarantee debt for all publicly traded U.S. corporations? pp. 604-622

Stephen Matteo Miller

Business as usual? Unraveling the impact of Brexit on UK‐EU business links pp. 623-641

Zovanga Kone, Feicheng Wang, Zheng Wang and Zhuo Zhou

Central bank communication: Inflation target transparency with fiscal policy pp. 642-659

Montserrat Ferré, Òscar Macaya and Carolina Manzano

COVID vaccination and social norms pp. 660-682

Jonathan Cook, Noah Newberger and Sami Smalling

A SALT on real estate? Housing market and migration responses to the limit on the state and local tax deduction pp. 683-704

Lawrence M. Kessler and Donald Bruce

The effects of Title IX enforcement on sexual assaults on college campuses pp. 705-721

Patrick Reilly, Kamilah Williams and Monica Das

Volume 42, issue 3, 2024

Household carbon dioxide emissions Engel Curve dynamics pp. 396-415

Robert Huang and Matthew Kahn

Does membership of the EMU matter for economic and financial outcomes? pp. 416-447

Omid M. Ardakani, N Kishor and Suyong Song

Gender equity and male and female smoking behavior pp. 448-473

William Jergins

The role of football win percentage on college applications for Power Five and Group of Five schools pp. 474-482

Craig McFarland, Peter A. Groothuis and Dennis Guignet

Strategic behavior, artistic integrity, and tradeoffs in popular music pp. 483-497

Andrew Weinbach, Phillip Kamau Njoroge, Robert Salvino and Arch Woodside

The effectiveness of government incentives for outward investment: The case of China's Belt and Road Initiative pp. 498-523

Hangtian Xu, Fuqiang Yang and Wenzhuo Zheng

Does a requirement to offer retirement plans help low‐income workers save for retirement? Early evidence from the OregonSaves program pp. 524-543

Ngoc Dao

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and food expenditures: Evaluating California's cash‐out policy pp. 544-573

Erik Hembre, Katherine McElroy and Shogher Ohannessian

Volume 42, issue 2, 2024

Gender differences in graduate student views on the professional climate in economics pp. 206-222

Ann Mari May, Mary G. McGarvey and Muazzam Toshmatova

Spillover between Medicare and Medicaid: Evidence from decreasing physician reimbursements pp. 223-236

Kole Reddig

College applications and enrollment effects of the Common Application pp. 237-258

Darren Page

Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications pp. 259-277

Christopher D. Blake, Danna Kang Thomas and Joshua Hess

Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills pp. 278-304

Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Colton Cronin and Neil Chin

Making the grade: The effect of teacher grading standards on student outcomes pp. 305-318

Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt and Adam Tyner

Do payday lending bans protect or constrain regional economies? Evidence from the Military Lending Act's final rule pp. 319-335

Craig Carpenter, Kristopher Deming, John Anders, Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Charles M. Tolbert and Adam Ingrao

Political systems, regime memory, and economic freedom pp. 336-354

Peter Calcagno, Beatriz Maldonado, Todd Nesbit and Mary Frances Zeager

Income inequality and party alternation: State‐level evidence from the United States pp. 355-374

Peter Calcagno, Alexander Marsella and Yang Zhou

Leveling the playing field: The distributional impact of maximum‐ and minimum‐level contracts on player compensation pp. 375-391

Scott M. Kaplan

Volume 42, issue 1, 2024

Do Democracy Vouchers help democracy? pp. 4-24

Sarah Papich

The impact of state Medicaid eligibility and benefits policy on neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations pp. 25-40

Aparna Soni, Lindsey Bullinger, Christina Andrews, Amanda Abraham and Kosali Simon

Surgeons' response to reimbursement changes for alternative procedures: Evidence from spine fusion in the U.S pp. 41-55

Nicholas Benson and Jose Joaquin Lopez

The effects of COVID‐19 policies on consumer spending in Norway pp. 56-67

Fenella Carpena, Laurens Swinkels and Dan Zhang

Does broadband affect local economic outcomes less than we thought? Micro evidence from Louisiana pp. 68-93

Gary A. Wagner and Hyun Ji Lee

Do tax credits benefit charities? Evidence from two states pp. 94-109

Anubhav Gupta and Thomas Luke Spreen

Alaska's ban on sentence bargaining pp. 110-119

Bryan C. McCannon

Banking concentration, financial openness, and financial development pp. 120-159

Edgar A. Ghossoub, Andre Harrison and Robert R. Reed

Macroprudential policy leakage: Evidence from shadow banking activities of Chinese enterprises pp. 160-182

Guiting Lin and Alice Y. Ouyang

Tax incentives and corporate innovation: Evidence from China's value‐added tax reform pp. 183-202

Jun Wang, Congcong Liu, Zhuan Xie and Guangjun Shen

Volume 41, issue 4, 2023

Social Security Disability Insurance and intergenerational economic mobility pp. 575-593

Katie Jajtner, Matt Messel and Jason Fletcher

How important are minimum wage increases in increasing the wages of minimum wage workers? pp. 594-612

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

Methods in open policy analysis: An application to California's building energy codes pp. 613-628

Matthew J. Holian

Pro‐market institutions and labor market outcomes: A panel‐data analysis of U.S. metropolitan areas pp. 629-652

Imran Arif and John Dawson

Tax noncompliance: The role of tax morale in smokers' behavior pp. 653-673

James Prieger

The macroeconomic impact of automation: Applications to elderly care pp. 674-695

Chia-Hui Lu

Perceived economic prospects during the early stage of COVID‐19 breakout pp. 696-713

Keyang Li, Yu Qin, Jing Wu and Jubo Yan

Defying gravity: The determinants of China's outbound mergers and acquisitions pp. 714-732

Zhongming Cheng and Shengle Lin

Volume 41, issue 3, 2023

Are historic districts a backdoor for segregation? Yes and no pp. 415-434

Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Yang Zhou

The effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on county‐level opioid prescribing practices and spillovers pp. 435-454

Shishir Shakya and Jane E. Ruseski

The community impact of school‐shootings on stress‐related emergency department visits pp. 455-470

Kritee Gujral, Alice M. Ellyson, Ali Rowhani‐Rahbar and Frederick Rivara

Mass gatherings contributed to early COVID‐19 mortality: Evidence from US sports pp. 471-488

Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla and Mario Lackner

Immigration and economic freedom of the US states: Does the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matter? pp. 489-512

Alexandre Padilla and Nicolas Cachanosky

The nexus between corruption and academic freedom: An international investigation of the underlying linkages pp. 513-531

Salvatore Capasso, Rajeev Goel and James Saunoris

The influence of fiscal policy uncertainty on corporate total factor productivity: Evidence from Chinese public companies pp. 532-554

Rongwu Zhang, Lan Luo and Jianjun Du

Earnings losses of displaced workers in times of crisis pp. 555-567

Nune Hovhannisyan and Fabio Méndez

Volume 41, issue 2, 2023

Long COVID? Prospects for economic scarring from the pandemic pp. 227-242

Philip Barrett, Sonali Das, Giacomo Magistretti, Evgenia Pugacheva and Philippe Wingender

Support for bigger government: The principle‐implementation gap and COVID‐19 pp. 243-261

Sandra Goff, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Alex Reents and Patrick Wade

Examining SNAP and TANF caseload trends, responsiveness, and policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 262-281

Erik Hembre

What do fiscal stimulus packages mean for household debt? pp. 282-299

María Pía Olivero and Mikheil Dvalishvili

Welfare effects of automatic‐IRAs pp. 300-318

Erin Cottle Hunt

Does paid family leave save infant lives? Evidence from California's paid family leave program pp. 319-337

Feng Chen

Legal access to alcohol and automobile accidents: Potential interactive effects of alcohol and drug consumption pp. 338-353

Briggs Depew and Jacob Meyer

Effects of psychological pressure on first‐mover advantage in competitive environments: Evidence from penalty shootouts pp. 354-369

Ricardo Manuel Santos

The authoritarian trade‐off: A synthetic control analysis of development and social coercion in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region pp. 370-387

Linan Peng and Justin T. Callais

Group cooperation of village officials in Chinese rural resettlement: A lab in the field pp. 388-407

Roland Cheo, Kainan Huang and Jingping Li

Volume 41, issue 1, 2023

A special issue on housing affordability: An introduction pp. 7-8

Charles Leung and Kwok Ping Tsang

Housing affordability and responses during times of stress: A preliminary look during the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 9-40

Stephen Malpezzi

Financial conditions and the well‐being of the real estate sector—A bottom‐up default analysis on five ASEAN economies pp. 41-60

Wei Sun and Matthew S. Yiu

The dynamics of the house price‐to‐income ratio: Theory and evidence pp. 61-78

Charles Leung and Edward Chi Ho Tang

Accounting for the decline in homeownership among the young pp. 79-102

Yuxi Yao

Access to transportation, residential segregation, and economic opportunity pp. 103-127

Kuzey Yılmaz and Muharrem Yesilirmak

Competition and health‐care spending: Theory and application to Certificate of Need laws pp. 128-145

James Bailey and Tom Hamami

Must‐access prescription drug monitoring programs and retail opioid sales pp. 146-165

Shishir Shakya and Collin Hodges

Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes pp. 166-193

Sumedha Gupta, Laura Montenovo, Thuy Nguyen, Felipe Lozano‐Rojas, Ian Schmutte, Kosali Simon, Bruce Weinberg and Coady Wing

What is the future of water quality trading? pp. 194-217

Haiyan Liu and Roy Brouwer