An Instructive Case in Referencing, Priority Conflict and Ethics: The Role of an Editor in a Scholarly Journal

The author discusses the high standard of ethics that editors must adhere to. He reviews a controversy concerning citation and priority of publication that arose between the authors of two different articles on the same subject published in two different journals, and also discusses the role played by the editor of a journal

Differences Between the Early Stages of the Unemployment Rates: The Great Recession vs. the Great Depression

We test for differences between the Great Recession and the Great Depression in the US, using unemployment rates. The test used is ANOVA. The hypothesis advanced is that the early phases of the recession and depression are non-different. At first we reject the hypothesis. But by incorporating government involvement for the two periods, we obtain moderate arguments for the acceptance of the hypothesis. The paper starts out with background ideas of the two periods, then proceeds to the testing based on actual data, deviation of actual from normal or NAIRU rates, and adjusted data for government capital injection and subsidies

The Journal Editorial Cycle and Practices

The authors summarize the general editorial practices discussed throughout the rest of the book

Analyzing structural change in the secondary market for developing-country debt: a translog approach

This paper examines changes in the relative price relationships between Latin American external debt instruments with the use of a translogarithmic utility function. An examination of price and external debt data for five heavily indebted Latin American countries over the period January 1986 to December 1993 suggests that the Brady Plan probably affected the portfolio diversification decisions ofinvestors in developing-country externaldebt instruments by accelerating the return of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela to international credit worthiness. This study found that as a result of improved credit ratings and the resulting structural change in the secondary market for developing country debt, the external-debt instruments offour offive Latin American debtor countries examined in this study tended to become more substitutable with each other when held in a weakly separable portfolio

Eine Kleine Studenten Bordello [dokument dźwiękowy]

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