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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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
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Estates system, medieval Europe, political property rights, polycentricity, residual claimancy, sovereignty

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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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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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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 445 (109,394)
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productive entrepreneurship, unproductive entrepreneurship, rent-seeking, religion, U.S. states

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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
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Labor's Share, Factor Shares, Development, Biased Technical Change, Capital Intensity

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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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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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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
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSEs, commercial banking system, financial crisis

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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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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
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continental orientation, technological diffusion, deep roots, economic development, spatial econometrics

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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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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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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
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Economic Growth, Conditional Convergence, County-Level Data

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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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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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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
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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 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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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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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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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
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productive entrepreneurship, unproductive entrepreneurship, rent-seeking, economic growth, US states

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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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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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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
Downloads 202 (249,539)
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medieval economic history, comparative economic development, medieval constitution, polycentric governance, political property rights, representative assemblies

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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 198 (254,076)
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sovereign debt crises, banking crises, currency crises, inflation crises, institutional quality, size of government, ratchet effect

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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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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 2023
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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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
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Department of Economics and Finance and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
Downloads 181 (275,169)
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constitutions; entrenchment; constitutional rigidity; constitutional amendments; political economy; matching methods; economic growth; economic development

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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 178 (280,677)
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labor share, capital share, trade unions, labor unions, income distribution, labor market institutions, labor demand

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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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A Rising Tide that Lifts All Boats: An Analysis of Economic Freedom and Inequality using Matching Methods

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4083350
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 19 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Justin T Callais and Andrew T. Young
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Department of Economics and Finance 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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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
Downloads 171 (289,245)
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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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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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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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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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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 155 (315,936)
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institutional quality, economic freedom, emotional contagion, Internet access

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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 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 138 (345,010)
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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 137 (346,972)
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institutional quality, economic freedom, income levels, income growth, spatial dependence, spillovers

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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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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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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
Downloads 131 (359,028)
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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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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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Golden Rules of Wages

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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

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

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

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4038881, Journal of Private Enterprise (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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ethnic conflict, Liberia, political economy

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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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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
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Labor's Share, Factor Shares, Development, Biased Technical Change, Capital Intensity

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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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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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Do Longer Constitutions Corrupt?

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 3925236, European Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 20 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 14 Oct 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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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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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

58.

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

59.

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

60.

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
Downloads 96 (448,621)
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Free Banking, Monetary Constitution, Political Property Rights, Polycentricity, Sovereignty, Suffolk System

61.

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

62.

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
Downloads 90 (467,484)
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Representative Assemblies, State Capacity, Political Economy, Medieval Europe, Institutions, Property Rights, Rule of Law, Growth and Development

63.

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
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Department of Economics and Finance and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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constitutions; entrenchment; constitutional rigidity; political economy; institution; economic freedom

64.

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

65.

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

66.

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
Downloads 83 (496,171)
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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

67.

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

68.

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 -- Department of Economics, Finance, & RMI
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American Free Banking, Suffolk System, Panel Data, Cointegration

69.

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

70.

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

71.

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

72.

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

73.

Consent or Coordination? Assemblies in Early Medieval Europe

International Review of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 3977844
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2022
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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representative assemblies, constitutions, coordination devices, medieval Europe, political economy

74.

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

75.

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

76.

Historical Foundations of Constitutionalism

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4391878
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Mar 2023
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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constitutional economics, constitutionalism, representative assemblies, medieval and Early Modern, limited government

77.

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

78.

The Limits of Generality for Constitutional Design

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4218173, Journal of Institutional Economics (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2023
Andrew T. Young
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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generality principle; generality norm; non-discriminatory politics; constitutional political economy, constitutional drift, constitutional design

79.

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 -- Department of Economics, Finance, & RMI and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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Default, Debt, Fiscal Crisis, Constitutions, Credible Commitment, Entrenchment

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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

81.

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

82.

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

83.

Revolutionary Constitutions: Are They Revolutionary in Terms of Constitutional Design?

Free Market Institute Research Paper No. 4360242
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Feb 2023
Justin T Callais and Andrew T. Young
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Department of Economics and Finance and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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revolutions, constitutions, political economy, matching methods, democracy