Andrew T. Young

Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business

Professor of Economics

Lubbock, TX 79409

United States

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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-4
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Sep 2003
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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sigma-convergence, beta-convergence, Solow growth model, balanced growth, speed of convergence, US county-level data, income distribution, Gini coefficient, income equality

Sigma Convergence versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Forthcoming
Posted: 15 Apr 2007
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics

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sigma-convergence, beta-convergence, Solow growth model, speed of convergence, balanced growth, U.S. county-level data, income distribution, Gini coefficient, income equality

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Foreign Aid, Institutional Quality, and Growth

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 May 2012 Last Revised: 22 May 2014
Andrew T. Young and Kathleen M. Sheehan
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute
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foreign aid, institutional quality, economic growth, political institutions, economic institutions, economic development

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Polycentric Sovereignty: The Medieval Constitution, Governance Quality, and the Wealth of Nations

Social Science Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 416 (97,124)
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Estates system, medieval Europe, political property rights, polycentricity, residual claimancy, sovereignty

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Religion: Productive or Unproductive?

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2013
Travis Wiseman and Andrew T. Young
Mississippi State University - Department of Finance and Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 411 (98,481)
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productive entrepreneurship, unproductive entrepreneurship, rent-seeking, religion, U.S. states

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Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Modern Appraisal

Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics, 2012
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Aug 2013
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Austrian business cycle, Federal Reserve, GSEs, financial crisis, housing market, structure of production, structure of consumption, risk structure

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Explicit Evidence on an Implicit Contract

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 4-05, Bar Ilan Univ. Pub Law Working Paper No. 8-05
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2012
Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Implicit Contract, Explicit Contract, Invisible Handshake, Customer Market, Long-Term Relationship, Price Rigidity, Coca-Cola, Nickel Coke

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One of the Things We Know that Ain't so: Is U.S. Labor's Share Relatively Stable?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Jan 2005
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Labor's share, factor shares, income distribution, great ratio, balanced growth, economic growth, unbalanced growth

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Labor's Shares - Aggregate and Industry: Accounting for Both in a Model of Unbalanced Growth with Induced Innovation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Feb 2006
Hernando Zuleta and Andrew T. Young
Universidad del Rosario and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 380 (107,765)
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Labor's Share, Factor Shares, Development, Biased Technical Change, Capital Intensity

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A Government-Sponsored Crisis: How Fannie and Freddie Caused the Recession

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 May 2010
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 320 (130,086)
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, commercial banking system, financial crisis

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Did Technology Transfer More Rapidly East-West than North-South?

European Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 277 (151,173)
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continental orientation, technological diffusion, deep roots, economic development, spatial econometrics

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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2014
Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew T. Young
IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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female brain drain, high-skilled female migration, bilateral migration flows, women’s rights, institutional quality, gravity models

Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8067
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Apr 2014
Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew T. Young
IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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female brain drain, high skilled female migration, bilateral migration flows, women's rights, institutional quality, gravity models

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Growth and Convergence Across the U.S.: Evidence from County-Level Data

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Oct 2005
Matthew John Higgins, Daniel Levy and Andrew T. Young
University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 258 (162,359)
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Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, County-Level Data

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The Time Structure of Production in the US, 2002-2009

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 May 2011
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Austrian business cycle theory, input-output analysis, time structure of production, capital structure, roundabout methods of production

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What Does It Take for a Roving Bandit to Settle Down? Theory and an Illustrative History of the Visigoths

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 May 2015 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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collective action problems, governance institutions, state emergence, roving versus stationary bandits, Visigoths, Roman Empire, ancient economic history, nation building

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From Caesar to Tacitus: Changes in Early Germanic Governance Circa 50 BC-50 AD

Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2015
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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non-government governance, self-governance, economics of clubs, constitutional exchange, antiquity, early Germanic peoples, the Roman Empire, political economy, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, ancient economic history

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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating Their Separate Roles in Us Growth

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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating Their Separate Roles in Us Growth

Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 07-4, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-5, Bar Ilan Univ. Pub Law Working Paper No. 06-8
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Dec 2006
Matthew John Higgins, Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
Downloads 132 (292,812)
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Economic Growth, Federal Government, State Government, Local Government, Fiscal Federalism, Oates' Decentralization Theorem, County-Level Data

Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating Their Separate Roles in US Growth

Public Choice, Forthcoming, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 9-42
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Jan 2009
Matthew John Higgins, Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Economic Growth, Federal Government, State Government, Local Government, County-Level Data, Metro and Non-Metro Counties, Income Distribution, Equity

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The Political Economy of Feudalism in Medieval Europe

Constitutional Political Economy (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Political and Economic Liberty; Medieval Western Europe; Polycentric Sovereignty; Constitutional Bargaining; Feudalism

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The Elasticity of Elasticity of Substitution Estimates: Is Anything Robust?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Sep 2007
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Elasticity of Substitution, Factor Shares, Labor's Share, Biased Technical Change

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Would a Free Banking System Stabilize NGDP Growth?

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 01 May 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Central banking, free banking, inflation, monetary constitution, nominal income targeting

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How Global Is Globalization?

Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy 2018, 48(3): 83-93
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2018
Jac C. Heckelman and Andrew T. Young
Wake Forest University - Department of Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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globalization, institutions, sigma convergence, stochastic convergence, panel unit root tests

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Capitalism and Labor Shares: A Cross-Country Panel Study

European Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2013
Andrew T. Young and Robert Lawson
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Edwin L. Cox School of Business
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labor share, income shares, economic freedom, political economy, democracy, capitalism, institutions, distribution of income

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The Carolingians, the Church, & the Medieval Constitution

The Social Science Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2018
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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medieval economic history, comparative economic development, medieval constitution, state capacity, political property rights, polycentric governance

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Labor's Share of the Business Cycle: Do Biased Technology Shocks Cause Business Cycles?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Nov 2004
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Biased technological change, business cycles, growth accounting, macroeconomics, real business cycle theory, labor's share, factor shares

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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels: Some US State-Level Empirics

American Journal of Entrepreneurship, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2013
Travis Wiseman and Andrew T. Young
Mississippi State University - Department of Finance and Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 181 (225,694)
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productive entrepreneurship, unproductive entrepreneurship, rent-seeking, economic growth, US states

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Crises and Government: Some Empirical Evidence

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Crises and Government: Some Empirical Evidence

Contemporary Economic Policy (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2015
Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 174 (233,614)
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sovereign debt crises, banking crises, currency crises, inflation crises, institutional quality, size of government, ratchet effect

Crises and Government: Some Empirical Evidence

Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 234-249, 2016
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Feb 2016
Andrew T. Young and Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Medieval Representative Assemblies: Collective Action and Antecedents of Limited Government

Constitutional Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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medieval economic history, comparative economic development, medieval constitution, polycentric governance, political property rights, representative assemblies

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Heterogeneous Convergence

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Heterogeneous Convergence

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-2
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 29 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, County Level Data, Heterogeneity

Heterogeneous Convergence

Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 11 Apr 2013
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, Heterogeneity, U.S. County Level Data

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Globalization and the Decline in Labor Shares: Exploring the Relationship Beyond Trade and Financial Flows

European Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2017
Andrew T. Young and Maria Tackett
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Gonzaga University
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labor share, capital share, globalization, functional distribution of income

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How the City Air Made Us Free: The Self-Governing Medieval City and the Bourgeoisie Revaluation

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2017
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Great Enrichment, constitutions, institutions, medieval city, Bourgeois Revaluation, polycentric sovereignty

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The Consequences of the US DOJ's Antitrust Activities: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Sep 2007
Andrew T. Young and William F. Shughart
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Huntsman School of Business
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Antitrust, Real Business Cycles, Technology Shocks, Markup Shocks, Aggregate Fluctuations

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Do Unions Increase Labor Shares? Evidence from US Industry-Level Data

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2015
Andrew T. Young and Hernando Zuleta
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Universidad del Rosario
Downloads 157 (254,437)
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labor share, capital share, trade unions, labor unions, income distribution, labor market institutions, labor demand

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Sep 2014
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins, Donald J. Lacombe and Briana Stenard
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, West Virginia University - Regional Research Institute and Mercer University - Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics
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Small Business Administration, guaranteed loans, economic growth, income growth, entrepreneurship, US counties, spatial econometrics, spillovers

The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

NBER Working Paper No. w20543
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2022
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins, Donald J. Lacombe and Briana Stenard
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, West Virginia University - Regional Research Institute and Mercer University - Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics
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Tax-Spend or Fiscal Illusion? Allowing for Asymmetric Revenue Effects in Expenditure Error-Correction Models

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Apr 2008
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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tax-spend, fiscal illusion, starve the beast, budget deficit, time series, Granger causality, cointegration, error-correction

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Did Leaving the Gold Standard Tame the Business Cycle' Evidence from NBER Reference Dates & Real GNP

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 May 2007
Andrew T. Young and Shaoyin Du
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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business cycle durations, growth cycles, macroeconomic stability, monetary policy, gold standard, real business cycle theory, postwar stabilization

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US Elasticities of Substitution and Factor-Augmentation at the Industry Level

Macroeconomic Dynamics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2012
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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elasticity of substitution, factor-augmenting technical change, labor-augmenting technical change, capital-augmenting technical change, corporate taxation, industry-level studies

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Retail Prices During a Change in Monetary Regimes: Evidence from Sears, Roebuck Catalogs, 1938-1951

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Apr 2005
Andrew T. Young and Alexander K. Blue
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Emory University
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Sticky prices, price rigidity, Bretton Woods, inflation, economic history

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Changing Perceptions of Maturity Mismatch in the US Banking System: Evidence from Equity Markets

Southern Economic Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2013
Andrew T. Young, Travis Wiseman and Thomas L. Hogan
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, Mississippi State University - Department of Finance and Economics and American Institute for Economic Research
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maturity mismatch, effective maturity, commercial banks, mortgages, mortgage-backed securities

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It’s a Small World After All: Internet Access and Institutional Quality

Contemporary Economic Policy (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2014
Kathleen M. Sheehan and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 135 (286,856)
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institutional quality, economic freedom, emotional contagion, Internet access

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Does Rigidity Matter? Constitutional Entrenchment and Growth

European Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2021
Justin T Callais and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Students and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutions; entrenchment; constitutional rigidity; constitutional amendments; political economy; matching methods; economic growth; economic development

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The Legacy of Representation in Medieval Europe for Incomes and Institutions Today

Southern Economic Journal (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2021
Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 115 (322,594)
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representative assemblies, political economy, medieval, institutions, property rights, rule of law, growth and development

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A Spatial Analysis of Incomes and Institutional Quality: Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Mar 2014
Jamie Bologna Pavlik, Donald J. Lacombe and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, West Virginia University - Regional Research Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 111 (330,779)
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institutional quality, economic freedom, income levels, income growth, spatial dependence, spillovers

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Religion and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unbundling Religious Institutions

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Aug 2013
Amanda Mandzik and Andrew T. Young
West Virginia University - College of Business and Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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HIV, AIDS, religion, institutions, religious institutions, sub-Saharan Africa

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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Do Any of Them Promote Growth?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Oct 2007
Matthew John Higgins, Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Economic Growth, Federal Government, State Government, Local Government, and County-Level Data

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Is Foreign Aid a Pure Public Good for Donor Country Citizens?

Constitutional Political Economy, 2015, 26(4): 421-433.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Travis Wiseman and Andrew T. Young
Mississippi State University - Department of Finance and Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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public economics, public goods, non-rivalrous goods, foreign aid, development assistance, expressive voting, warm-glow, median voter theory, impure altruism

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Hospitalitas: Barbarian Settlements and Constitutional Foundations of Medieval Europe

A. T. Young (2017), 'Hospitalitas: Barbarian Settlements and Constitutional Foundations of Medieval Europe', Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutional political economy, polycentric sovereignty, shareholder states, collective action problems, governance institutions, state emergence

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Recovery and Reinvestment Act Spending at the State Level: Keynesian Stimulus or Distributive Politics?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Sep 2010
Andrew T. Young and Russell S. Sobel
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and The Citadel - School of Business
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Fiscal Stimulus, Fiscal Policy, Political Economy, Public Choice, Congressional

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Globalization, Institutions, and Income Convergence

Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Kaitlyn Harger, Andrew T. Young and Joshua C. Hall
West Virginia University, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and West Virginia University
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Globalization, Institutions, Income Convergence

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Re-Measuring Labor's Share

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Re-Measuring Labor's Share

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Sep 2010
Hernando Zuleta and Andrew T. Young
Universidad del Rosario and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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labor's share, factor shares, development, biased technical change, capital intensity, human capital

Re-Measuring Labor's Share

Documentos de Trabajo, Facultad de Economía, Universidad del Rosario, No. 36
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Hernando Zuleta and Andrew T. Young
Universidad del Rosario and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Labor's Share, Factor Shares, Development, Biased Technical Change, Capital Intensity

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Labor Shares in a Model of Induced Innovation

Documentos de Trabajo, Facultad de Economía, Universidad del Rosario, No. 10
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2012
Hernando Zuleta and Andrew T. Young
Universidad del Rosario and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 94 (368,768)
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Labor's Share, Factor Shares, Development, Biased Technical Change, Capital Intensity

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When Roving Bandits Settle Down: Club Theory and the Emergence of Government

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Jun 2018
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Club Theory, Government Formation, Collective Action, Roving and Stationary Bandits, Visigoths, Roman Empire

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The Causal Effects of Rule of Law and Property Rights on Fiscal Capacity

European Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2021
Kevin B. Grier, Robin Grier and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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fiscal capacity, state capacity, property rights, rule of law, credible commitments, matching methodologies

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Globalization and Income Convergence

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Kaitlyn Harger and Andrew T. Young
West Virginia University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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globalization, institutions, income convergence

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Golden Rules for Wages

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Golden Rules for Wages

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2013
Andrew T. Young and Hernando Zuleta
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Universidad del Rosario
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labor share, capital share, factor shares, trade unions, bargaining power, organized labor, political economy

Golden Rules of Wages

Documento CEDE No. 2013-42
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2013
Andrew T. Young and Hernando Zuleta
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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labor share, capital share, factor shares, trade unions, bargaining power, organized labor, political economy

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The Internet, Emotional Contagion, and Foreign Aid

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Jul 2013
Kathleen M. Sheehan and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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foreign aid, emotional contagion, Internet use, public economics, public goods

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The Spatial Impact of Peers in the Workforce: A Spatial Econometric Approach with an Application to Major League Baseball

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Dec 2012
Amanda Mandzik, Donald J. Lacombe and Andrew T. Young
West Virginia University - College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University - Regional Research Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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baseball, spatial econometric models, shirking, labor effort, peer effects

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Black Populations and Economic Growth: An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Mississippi County-Level Data

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-06
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Jan 2007
Andrew T. Young, Matthew John Higgins and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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racial inequalities, Black populations, Solow growth model, speed of convergence, U.S. county-level data, Extreme Bounds Analysis, regional studies

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Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.

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Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.

Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-16
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 May 2007
Matthew John Higgins, Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, Extreme Bounds Analysis, County-Level Data

Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.

Applied Economics Letters, 2010, vol 17, no 3, pp. 293-296, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-19, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 07-22
Posted: 16 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Matthew John Higgins, Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
University of Utah - Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy, Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics

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Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, Extreme Bounds Analysis, County-Level Data

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A Theory of Self-Enforcing Monetary Constitutions With Reference to the Suffolk System, 1825–1858

AIER Sound Money Project Working Paper No. 2018-14, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 May 2018 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2018
Alexander William Salter and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Free Banking, Monetary Constitution, Political Property Rights, Polycentricity, Sovereignty, Suffolk System

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Do Longer Constitutions Corrupt?

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 3925236
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2022
Jamie Bologna Pavlik, Israt Jahan and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Constitutions, constitutional amendments, constitutional length, corruption

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Who Benefits when a Country Becomes More Economically Free? (Does Anybody Lose?)

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4083350
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Apr 2022
Justin T Callais and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Students and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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economic freedom, income deciles, inequality, matching methods, causal inference, institutional economics

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Does Constitutional Entrenchment Matter for Economic Freedom?

Contemporary Economic Policy (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2021
Justin T Callais and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Students and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutions; entrenchment; constitutional rigidity; political economy; institution; economic freedom

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The Peace of God

Rationality and Society (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 04 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2021
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Medieval Economic History, Comparative Economic Development, Medieval Constitution, Political Property Rights, Polycentric Governance, Peace of God, Sovereignty

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What Constitutes a Constitutional Amendment Culture?

European Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2020
Danko Tarabar and Andrew T. Young
Winthrop University and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutions, constitutional amendments, constitutional rigidity, constitutional design, culture, Hofstede indices

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Sorting out the Aid-Corruption Nexus

Journal of Institutional Economics (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2021
Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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foreign aid, official development assistance, ODA, corruption, institutional quality, economic development, matching methods

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Medieval European Traditions in Representation and State Capacity Today

Economics of Governance (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2020
Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Representative Assemblies, State Capacity, Political Economy, Medieval Europe, Institutions, Property Rights, Rule of Law, Growth and Development

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Policing the Chain Gang: Panel Cointegration Analysis of the Stability of the Suffolk System, 1825-1858

Journal of Macroeconomics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 13 May 2013
Andrew T. Young and John A. Dove
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Troy University - Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy
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American Free Banking, Suffolk System, Panel Data, Cointegration

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Carolingians at the Doorstep? The Maturing Limited Access Order of Early Medieval Europe

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2020
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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medieval economic history, comparative economic development, medieval constitution, state capacity, political property rights, polycentric governance

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Promise, Trust and Betrayal: Costs of Breaching an Implicit Contract

Southern Economic Journal (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2020
Daniel Levy and Andrew T. Young
Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Implicit Contract, Cost of Breaching a Contract, Cost of Breaking a Contract, Invisible Handshake, Customer Market, Long-Term Relationship, Price Rigidity, Sticky Prices, Nickel Coke, Coca-Cola, Secret Formula

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Explicit Evidence of an Implicit Contract

Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Aug 2013
Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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Implicit Contract, Explicit Contract, Invisible Handshake, Customer Market, Long-Term Relationship, Price Rigidity, Sticky Prices, Price Adjustment, Quality Rigidity, Quality Adjustment, Nickel Coke, Coca-Cola, Secret Formula, Real Thing

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Does Aid Cause Changes in Economic Freedom?

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 3950832
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2022
Jamie Bologna Pavlik, Benjamin Powell and Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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foreign aid, economic freedom

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Why in the World are We All Keynesians Again? The Flimsy Case for Stimulus Spending

Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 721, February 14, 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Mar 2013
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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fiscal stimulus, spending multiplier, Economic Stimulus Act of 2009, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Obama ARRA, federal spending, US government spending, Keynesian model

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Can Foreign Aid Motivate Institutional Reform? An Evaluation of the HIPC Initiative

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Apr 2017
Minh Tam Schlosky and Andrew T. Young
Sewanee: The University of the South and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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HIPC Initiative, debt relief, foreign aid, conditionality, economic freedom, institutional quality, political economy

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What is a Classical Liberal Constitution?

Independent Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Sep 2020
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Classical Liberalism, Institutions, Economic Freedom, Constitutional Economics, Political Economy

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Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality

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Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9309
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Sep 2015
Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew T. Young
IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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emigration, institutions, democracy, economic freedom, brain drain

Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Jun 2016
Maryam Naghsh Nejad and Andrew T. Young
IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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emigration, institutions, democracy, economic freedom, brain drain

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US State Constitutional Entrenchment and Default in the Nineteenth Century

Journal of Institutional Economics (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
John A. Dove and Andrew T. Young
Troy University - Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Default, Debt, Fiscal Crisis, Constitutions, Credible Commitment, Entrenchment

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Consent or Coordination? Assemblies in Early Medieval Europe

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Jan 2022
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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representative assemblies, constitutions, coordination devices, medieval Europe, political economy

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How Austrians Can Contribute to Constitutional Political Economy (and Why They Should)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Sep 2019
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutional political economy, constitutional drift, Austrian economics, political catallaxy, robust political economy

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Tax-Spend or Fiscal Illusion?

Cato Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 14 May 2013
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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U.S. Federal Revenues and Expenditures, U.S. Federal Budgetary Disequilibrium

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Evidence of Induced Innovation in US Sectoral Capital’s Shares

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Mar 2010
Andrew T. Young, Hernando Zuleta and Andres F. Garcia-Suaza
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business, Universidad del Rosario and Universidad del Rosario - Faculty of Economics
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Induced Innovation, Biased Technical Change, Capital’s Share, Labor’s Share, Elasticity of Substitution

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Costly Discrimination and Ethnic Conflict: The Case of the Liberian Civil Wars

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4038881
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Apr 2022
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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ethnic conflict, Liberia, political economy