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The Slowdown In Soviet Defense Expenditures: Comment, Abdur Chowdhury, Josef C. Brada, Ronald L. Graves Oct 1990

The Slowdown In Soviet Defense Expenditures: Comment, Abdur Chowdhury, Josef C. Brada, Ronald L. Graves

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

The reason for the apparently opposing results in Brada and Graves' (1988) attempt to explain the reasons for the slowdown in USSR defense expenditures in the mid-1970s is that their analysis suffers from a serious serial correlation problem. The majority of the regressions display Durbin-Watson statistics that reject the null hypothesis of no autocorrelation. A reestimation of their results, after correcting for serial correlation, changes some of their major conclusions regarding the factors influencing Soviet defense spending. The corrected results indicate that no structural break occurred in the mid-1970s. These results suggest that there has been no change in Soviet …

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Review Of Perestroika And The Economy: New Thinking On Soviet Economics By Anthony Jones And William Moskoff, Abdur Chowdhury Jul 1990

Review Of Perestroika And The Economy: New Thinking On Soviet Economics By Anthony Jones And William Moskoff, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Tax Rates And Tax Evasion: Evidence From California Amnesty Data, Steven E. Crane, Farrokh Nourzad Jun 1990

Tax Rates And Tax Evasion: Evidence From California Amnesty Data, Steven E. Crane, Farrokh Nourzad

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

The effect of marginal tax rates on income tax evasion is examined using data from the California Tax Amnesty Program, which provided amnesty for people who had not filed returns, had filed inaccurate returns, or were delinquent in paying their tax liabilities. People under criminal investigation were not eligible. After correcting for the selectivity bias, it was found that tax evaders respond to higher marginal tax rates by increasing their evasion activity. The results also confirm the theoretical prediction that people with higher levels of income tend to evade more. The absolute and relative sizes of income and tax rate …

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Review Of Money, History, And International Finance: Essays In Honor Of Anna J. Schwartz By Michael D. Bordo, Abdur Chowdhury Apr 1990

Review Of Money, History, And International Finance: Essays In Honor Of Anna J. Schwartz By Michael D. Bordo, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Cooter And Rappoport On The Normative, John B. Davis Apr 1990

Cooter And Rappoport On The Normative, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

In a recent examination of the origins of ordinal utility theory in neoclassical economics, Robert D. Cooter and Peter Rappoport argue that the ordinalist revolution of the 1930s, after which most economists abandoned interpersonal utility comparisons as normative and unscientific, constituted neither unambiguous progress in economic science nor the abandonment of normative theorizing, as many economists and historians of economic thought have generally believed (Cooter and Rappoport, 1984). Rather, the widespread acceptance of ordinalism, with its focus on Pareto optimality, simply represented the emergence of a new neoclassical research agenda that, on the one hand, defined economics differently than had …

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Comments On The Rhetoric Project In Methodology, John B. Davis Jan 1990