University of Calgary

2005

Examples of 2005 Publications by Economics Faculty
A full list of our publications.

  • Auld, M.C. and Sidhu, N. (2005) "Schooling, cognitive ability, and health". Health Economics 14(10):1019-1034.
  • Auld, M.C., (2005) "Causal effect of early initiation on adolescent smoking patterns", Canadian Journal of Economics 38(3):709-34.
  • Auld, M.C., (2005) "Smoking, Drinking, and Income", Journal of Human Resources 40(2):505-518.
  • Boyce, J. R. and A. Hollis, "Governance of Electricity Transmission Systems, Energy Economics, 27(2): 237-255, March 2005.
  • Bruce, C.J. and C. Anderson, "The Impact of Family Background on Education Attainment in Canada," Journal of Forensic Economics 18(2-3), Spring/Summer, 2005, 125-137.
  • Church, J. R., Platform Competition in Telecommunications." (with N. Gandal) in M.Cave, S. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang eds., Handbook of Telecommunications Vol. 2 Amsterdam: North-Holland, 119-155, 2005.
  • Eaton, B. Curtis and Jeremiah Allen, "Incomplete Information and Migration: The Grass is Greener Across the Higher Fence", Journal of Regional Science, February 2005, pp 1-19.
  • Emery, J.C. Herbert (2005) "Total and Private Returns to University Education in Canada: 1960 to 2000 and in Comparison to Other Postsecondary Training" in Charles M. Beach, Robin W. Boadway and R. Marvin McInnis eds., Higher Education in Canada. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University.
  • Emery, J.C. Herbert (2005) "La Prevoyance volontaire aux Etates-Unis et la montee de l'assurance maladie publique et obligatoire avant 1920," Revue Europeenne D'Histoire Sociale 16, 8-19.
  • Ferrer, A., "Signaling, Inequality and the Social Structure", Economica Volume 72, Issue 287, Page 515-529, August 2005.
  • Gonzalez, F., "Insecure Property and Technological Backwardness", The Economic Journal, (July 2005) 703-721.
  • Gordon, D. V., and A. Hatcher, 2005, "Further Investigations into the Factors Affecting Compliance with UK Fishing Quotas", Land Economics, 81(1) (Feb. 2005) 87-99.
  • Hollis, A., Comment on "The Economics of Follow-on Drug Research and Development", Pharmacoeconomics, forthcoming.
  • Hollis, A., "How do Brand's "Own Generics" Affect Pharmaceutical Prices?" Review of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.
  • Horbulyk, T. M., "Markets, Policy and the Allocation of Water Resources among Sectors: Constraints and Opportunities" Canadian Water Resources Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, 55-64 (Spring 2005).
  • Keith, David W. and James S. Rhodes (in press). "Engineering-economic analysis of biomass IGCC with carbon capture and storage". Biomass & Bioenergy.
  • Keith, David W. and Joseph F. DeCarolis (in press). "The Economics of Large Scale Wind Power in a Carbon Constrained World." Energy Policy.
  • Keith, David W. and Joseph F. DeCarolis (2005). "The Costs of Wind's Variability: Is There a Threshold?" The Electricity Journal, 18, 69-77.
  • Keith, David W., Edward S. Rubin and Chris F. Gilboy (in press). Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies. Volume 1: Peer-Reviewed Papers and Plenary Presentations, Elsevier.
  • Keith, David W., Joshuah K. Stolaroff and Gregory V. Lowry (2005). "Using CaO- and MgO-rich Industrial Waste Streams for Carbon Sequestration". Energy Conversion and Management, 46, 687-699.
  • Kneebone, R. D. "The Feasibility of a 50% Saving Rule for Alberta," Canada West Foundation, Investing Wisely Project Discussion Paper Series, Paper No. 1, September 2005.
  • Kneebone, R. D., and J. C. H. Emery, "Mostly Harmless: Socialists, Populists, Policies and the Economic Development of Alberta and Saskatchewan," Technical Paper No. TP-05003, Institute for Advanced Policy Research
  • Kneebone, R. D., "From Famine to Feast: The Evolution of Budgeting Rules in Alberta", Technical Paper No. TP-05008, Institute for Advanced Policy Research.
  • McKenzie, K. J. (2005), "A Race to the Bottom in Provincial Business Taxation in Canada?" in Racing to the Bottom? Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation, Kathryn Harrison ed., UBC Press.
  • McKenzie, K. J. (2005), "Tax Subsidies for R&D in Canadian Provinces", Canadian Public Policy XXXI No. 1, March, 29-44.
  • McKenzie, K. J. (2005), "Tax Subsidies for R&D in Canadian Provinces", Canadian Public Policy XXXI No. 1, March, 29-44.
  • Oxoby, R. J. and Humberto Llavador "Partisan Competition, Growth, and the Franchise," Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(3):1155-1189, 2005.
  • Serletis, A., "Revenue Smoothing in an ARIMA Framework: Evidence from the United States," with Periklis Gogas. In Claude Diebolt and Catherine Kyrtsou (eds.), New Trends in Macroeconomics Springer (2005), pp. 79-88.
  • Serletis, A, Money and the Economy, (ed). World Scientific.
  • Serletis, A., and Akbar Shahmoradi, "Velocity and the Variability of Money Growth: Evidence from a VARMA, GARCH-M Model," Macroeconomic Dynamics.
  • Serletis, A., and Asghar Shahmoradi, "Comment on 'Singularity Bifurcations,' by Yijun He and William A. Barnett," Journal of Macroeconomics.
  • Serletis, A., and Mototsugy Shintani, "Chaotic Monetary Dynamics with Confidence," Journal of Macroeconomics.
  • Serletis, A., and Catherine Kyrtsou, "Univariate Tests for Nonlinear Structure," Journal of Macroeconomics.
  • Serletis, A., and Jagat Jit Virk, "Monetary Aggregation, Inflation, and Welfare," Applied Financial Economics.
  • Serletis, A., and Kazem Yavari "The Welfare Cost of Inflation in Italy," Applied Economics Letters 12 (2005), 165-168.
  • Serletis, A., and Asghar Shahmoradi "Business Cycles and Natural Gas Prices," OPEC Review. (2005), 75-84.
  • Serletis, A. and Asghar Shahmoradi "Semi-Nonparametric Estimates of the Demand for Money in the United States," Macroeconomic Dynamics 9 (2005), 542-559.
  • Serletis, A., and K. Pinno "Long Swings in the Canadian Dollar," Applied Financial Economics 15 (2005), 73-76.
  • Serletis, A., "Randomly Modulated Periodic Signals in Alberta's Electricity Market," with Melvin J. Hinich, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
  • Serletis, A., "Business Cycles and Natural Gas Prices," with Asghar Shahmoradi. The OPEC Review.
  • Serletis, A., "Rational Bubbles or Persistent Deviations from Market Fundamentals?" with Zisimos Koustas. Journal of Banking and Finance 29 (2005), 2523-2539.
  • Serletis, A., "Functional Structure Inference (ed.), with William A. Barnett. International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics (ISETE). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
  • Serletis, A., "The Demand for Money: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches." Springer Verlag, 2nd edition.
  • Serletis, A., "The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets," with Frederic S. Mishkin, Addison Wesley Longman, 3rd edition.
  • Serletis, A., "A Note on Imposing Local Curvature in Generalized Leontief Models," with Asghar Shahmoradi, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
  • Serletis, A., "On the Welfare Cost of Inflation in Europe," with Kazem Yavari, Applied Economics Letters.
  • Serletis, A., "Futures Trading and the Storage of North American Natural Gas," with Asghar Shahmoradi, OPEC Review.
  • Serletis, A., "Imports, Exports, and Prices in Alberta's Deregulated Power Market," with Paul Dormaar. In W. David Walls (ed.) Quantitative Analysis of the Alberta Power Market. Van Horne Institute.
  • Serletis, A., "Bayesian Estimation of Flexible Functional Forms, Curvature Conditions, and the Demand for Assets," with Asghar Shahmoradi. In William A. Barnett and Apostolos Serletis (eds.) Functional Structure Inference. International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics (ISETE). Elsevier Science.
  • Serletis, A., "Productivity and Convergence Trends in the OECD: Evidence from a Normalized Quadratic Variable Profit Function," with Guohua Feng. In William A. Barnett and Apostolos Serletis (eds.) Functional Structure Inference. International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics (ISETE). Elsevier Science.
  • Taylor, M. S. "The Pollution Haven Hypothesis," The B. E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 8.
  • Taylor, M. S. Appendix Proofs for "Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol," JEEM, Vol. 49, Issue 2, March 2005, pp 205-234.
  • Walls, W. D. and Wei Zhang. "Using extreme value theory to model electricity price risk with an application to the Alberta power market." Energy Exploration & Exploitation, volume 23, number 5, pages 375-404, October 2005.
  • Walls, W.D. and F. Rusco. "Modeling asymmetries and fat tails in power prices." In Globalization of Energy: Markets, Technology, and Sustainability. Proceedings of the 28th Annual IAEE International Conference, June 3-6, Taipei. International Association for Energy Economics, 10 pp., 2005.
  • Walls, W.D. and W. Schrade. "Financial economies, consolidation constraints, and the early organization of the electricity business." In Globalization of Energy: Markets, Technology, and Sustainability. Proceedings of the 28th Annual IAEE International Conference, June 3-6, Taipei. International Association for Energy Economics, 10 pp., 2005.
  • Walls, W.D., F. Rusco and J. Ludwigson. "Environmental regulation and the market for motor vehicle fuels: Unintended consequences of fueltype proliferation, including higher and more volatile prices." In Fueling the Future: Prices, Productivity, Policies, and Prophecies. Proceedings of the 25th Annual IAEE North American Conference, Denver, September 18-21. International Association for Energy Economics, 10 pp., 2005.
  • Walls, W.D. "Competition in the market for travel information services." In Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Bangkok, September 21-25, Volume 5, pp. 533-544, 2005.
  • Walls, W.D. and P. Harvey. "Modeling gambling demand in a laboratory casino: Discovering the importance of individual-specific effects." with P. Harvey. In L. Vaughan-Williams, editor, Information Efficiency in Financial and Betting Markets. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 262-276, 2005.
  • Walls, W.D., F. Rusco and J. Ludwigson. "Vehicular emissions and the regulation of motor fuels." Proceedings of the the 10th International Conference of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, 10 pp., December 10, 2005.
  • Walls, W.D. and P. Harvey. "Digital pirates in practice: Analysis of market transactions in Hong Kong's pirate software arcades,". Forthcoming in International Journal of Management.
  • Walls, W.D. and F. Rusco. "Choice of driver contract in road transport." Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 6:3915-3924, September 2005.
  • Walls, W.D. and A. De Vany. "Big budgets, big openings, and legs: Analysis of the blockbuster strategy." The Asian Economic Review, 47(2):307-328, August 2005.
  • Walls, W. D. ``Modeling movie success when 'nobody knows anything': Conditional stable-distribution analysis of film returns.'' Journal of Cultural Economics. 29(3):177-190, August 2005.
  • Walls, W. D., "Economics of Motion Pictures." Forthcoming in S. Durlauf and L. Blume, editors, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
  • Walls, W. D. "Modeling heavy tails and skewness in film returns." Forthcoming in Applied Financial Economics.
  • Walls, W. D., editor. Research in Energy and Transport Markets. The Van Horne Institute, Calgary, 2005.
  • Walls, W. D. "Using extreme value theory to improve management decision-making with an application to the Chinese cinema in Hong Kong." Forthcoming in International Journal of Management.
  • Walls, W. D. "The Behaviour of Alberta Gamblers: Evidence from the Tote at Northlands Park." Forthcoming in Gambling Research.

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