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Journal of Policy . Journal of Policy Modeling Mo eling 23 (2001) 937-942 VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 23, Number 1, January 2001 Contents ARTICLES Economic Growth, International Labour Mobility, and Unanticipated Non-Monetary Shocks George M. Agiomirgianakis and Athina Zervoyianni On the Optimality of a Currency Area of a Given Size George D. Demopoulos and Nicholas A. Yannacopoulos An Applied Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Environmental Tax Reforms and Pension Policy Ronald Wendner Estimating the Effects of Disinflationary Monetary Policy on Minorities Willem Thorbecke Euro-land; Any Good for the European South? Efthymios G. Tsionas Of Fish and Whales: The Credibility of Threats in International Trade Disputes Daniel V. Gordon, R6gnvaldur Hannesson, and William A. Kerr SURVEY Transforming Trade and Payments in Transition Economies—the Regional Dimension Jozef M. van Brabant 0161-8938/01/$ — see front matter © 2001 Society for Policy Modeling. PII: S0161-8938(01)00086-2 Volume Contents / Journal of Policy Modeling 23 (2001) 937-942 Volume 23, Number 2, February 2001 Contents ARTICLES Storage—Trade Interactions Under Uncertainty: 127 Implications for Food Security Shiva S. Makki, Luther G. Tweeten, and Mario J. Miranda Currency Substitution in Thailand 14] Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Ampa Techaratanachai East European Economic Reform: Some Simulations on a 147 Structural VAR Model Maria Blangiewicz and Wojciech W. Charemza Explaining Unemployment Trends in the Netherlands 161 Robert A.J. Dur Demographic Changes, Labor Effort and Economic Growth: 169 Empirical Evidence from Greece George Hondroyiannis and Evangelia Papapetrou Debt Overhangs and International Agricultural Trade 189 Christopher G. Locke and Fredoun Z. Ahmadi-Esfahani The World Economy to 2015: Policy Simulations on 217 Sustainable Development Akira Onishi Erratum 235 Volume 23, Number 3, April 2001 Special Issue Dollarization for the Americas? Contents ARTICLES Dollarization for the Americas? Editor’s Introduction 237 Dominick Salvatore Is it Time for a Common Currency for the Americas? 241 Vittorio Corbo | Dollarization: Myths and Realities 249 Sebastian Edwards What Problems Can Dollarization Solve? 267 Barry Eichengreen Truth in Advertising and the Great Dollarization Scam 279 Thomas D. Willett Volume Contents / Journal of Policy Modeling 23 (2001) 937-942 Should Latin America’s Common Law Marriages to the US Dollar be Legalized? Should Canada’s? James W. Dean The Problem of Dollar Encroachment in Emerging Markets Ronald I. McKinnon Pressures for Currency Consolidation in Insurance and Finance: Are the Currencies of Financially Small Countries on the Endangered List? George M. von Furstenberg Lessons of the Euro for Dollarization: Analytic and Political Economy Perspectives Harris Dellas and George S. Tavlas Which Countries in the Americas Should Dollarize? Dominick Salvatore Volume 23, Number 4, May 2001 Contents ARTICLES The Pricing Behavior of Korean Manufactured Goods During Trade Liberalization Yung Y. Yang and Min Hwang Infrastructures and Private Sector Performance in Spain Alfred M. Pereira and Oriol Roca-Sagales Robust Estimates of Value of a Statistical Life for Developing Economies Bradley J. Bowland and John C. Beghin The Opening Policy in China: Simulations of a Macroeconometric Model Stéphane Dées Macroeconomic Effects of a Currency Devaluation in Egypt: An Analysis with a Computable General Equilibrium Model with Financial Markets and Forward-looking Expectations Mark Thissen and Robert Lensink Welfare Effects of Public Housing in Tokyo Piyush Tiwari and Hiroshi Hasegawa The Efficiency of Government Expenditure: Experiences from Africa Sanjeev Gupta and Marijn Verhoeven Is There a Role for Government Intervention in the Annuity Market? Simon Power and Peter G.C. Townley 940 Volume Contents / Journal of Policy Modeling 23 (2001) 937-942 Currency Substitution versus Dollarization: A Portfolio Balance Model Tarik H. Alami Volume 23, Number 5, July 2001 Contents ARTICLES Human Capital and Economic Growth: Time Series Evidence from Greece D. Asteriou and G.M. Agiomirgianakis Monetary Policy and the Fisher Effect Paul Séderlind Recent Trends in the Global Distribution of Income Donghyun Park Financial Liberalisation and Price Stability in Kenya Anders Isaksson Failure Risk: A Comparative Study of UK and Russian Firms John Hunter and Natalia Isachenkova The Profitability of Central Bank Foreign Exchange Market Intervention Keith Pilbeam Possible Effects of European Monetary Union on Switzerland Douglas Laxton and Eswar Prasad Asymmetric Responses in Economic Models Shama Gamkhar and Jerome A. Olson Tradable Tagged Permit System for Global Pollution Control Byong-Hun Ahn and Yong-Gun Kim Volume 23, Number 6, August 2001 Contents ARTICLES A General Equilibrium Analysis of Jordan’s Trade Liberalization Nobuhiro Hosoe Volume Contents / Journal of Policy Modeling 23 (2001) 937-942 Bottlenecks and Limits to Growth: A Multisectoral Analysis of Italian Industry Piero Cipollone and Domenico J. Marchetti Would the Right Tariff Aggregator for Policy Analysis Please Stand Up? Christian F. Bach and Will Martin Testing for PPP and UIP in an FIML Framework: Some Evidence for Germany and Japan Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Sarantis Kalyvitis, and Nikitas Pittis Defense Spending and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A Causality Analysis A. Henry Dakurah, Stephen P. Davies, and Rajan K. Sampath On Inefficiencies in the European Sugar Regime Jean-Christophe Bureau, Hervé Guyomard, and Vincent Réquillart Border Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in Europe Jerry Coakley and Ana-Maria Fuertes Demographic Shock Transmission from Large to Small Countries: An Overlapping Generations CGE Analysis Turalay Kenc and Serdar Sayan Economic Structural Change Over Time: Brazil and the United States Compared Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Michael Sonis, and Jiemin Guo Volume 23, Number 7, October 2001 Contents ARTICLES Life-cycle Behaviour of US Households: A Nonlinear GMM Estimation on Pseudopanel Data Michel Beine, Francis Bismans, Fréderic Docquier, and Sébastien Laurent Purchasing Power Parity and Integration: Empirical Evidence in the Mediterranean Countries Lucio Laureti 942 Volume Contents / Journal of Policy Modeling 23 (2001) 937-942 Optimal Multiregional Global Economic Growth: Formulation of an Optimal Growth Program, Growth Prospects, and Convergence S.M.N. Islam The European Monetary Union: Were There Alternatives to the ECB? A Quantitative Evaluation Warwick J. McKibbin and Tomas Bok The Impact of Agenda 2000’s Structural Policy Reform on FDI in the EU Fritz Breuss, Peter Egger, and Michael Pfaffermayr Note on a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Ghana: Identifying Growth Areas Samuel N. Addy Volume 23, Number 8, November 2001 Contents ARTICLES The Effect of Incentive Regulation on Productive Efficiency in Telecommunications Noel D. Uri Policy Modelling of the Trade-Off Between Agricultural Development and Land Degradation—the Sudan Case E.A. Abdelgalil and S.I. Cohen Should Trade Barriers be Phased-Out Slowly? A Case Study of North America Michael A. Kouparitsas The Volatility of the Socially Optimal Level of Investment Ross S. Guest and lan M. McDonald Author Index Keyword Index Volume Contents