A Guide for “JEE Content” Submissions

This is an update of a guide to the thinking of the editorial collective for the Content section of the Journal of Economic Education (JEE). The authors discuss the type of papers they are looking for, what in their view constitutes a good paper, and how their review process works. They specifically discuss their reviewing process, the content they are looking for, and their view of the structure of a good paper. Although they focus specifically on Content articles for the JEE, many of the general issues discussed may carry over to other sections of the JEE and to journals more generally.     

Assessing the Role of Business Schools in the Market for New Economics Ph.D.'s

The projected oversupply of new economics Ph.D.'s and its implications for college and university programs are explored. The authors discuss under-graduate enrollments, the emergence of business schools as a growth market for economists, relative salary movements, “field switching,” and shifts in the kinds of doctoral degrees that faculties have. Their findings are important both to those planning to earn Ph.D.'s in economics and to universities that train economists.     

The Case of Effort Variables in Student Performance

Studies of the effect of study time on test scores have generally shown an insignificant or negative relationship. However, this study suggests that the effects are different for students with different ability levels. By failing to test separately by ability, previous studies cancelled out the significant effects of study time.     

Integrating the Traditional Job-Market Research Seminar with Instruction in the Undergraduate Classroom

The specialty area of environmental and resource economics is engaging the attention of an increasing number of economic educators. In this article, Christainsen reviews and evaluates some of the major textbooks from the perspective of the role of property rights in theory and in policy issues.     

Arjo Klamer,Conversations with Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics.

The impotency of fiscal policy resulting from budget deficits is called into question. Empirical observation is used to separate the underlying mechanism of the economy from the “intellectual toys and games” that constitute much of macroeconomics theory today.     

A Simple Model to Teach Business Cycle Macroeconomics for Emerging Market and Developing Economies

The canonical neoclassical model is insufficient to understand business cycle fluctuations in emerging market and developing economies. The author reformulates the model proposed by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007 Ahumada, I., and F. Butler. 2009. La enseñanza de la economía en México. Working Paper 672. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Google Scholar]) in a simple setting that can be used to teach business cycle macroeconomics for emerging market and developing economies at the undergraduate level. The simplified model is employed for qualitatively explaining facts such as the highly countercyclicality of the trade balance and the higher volatility of output and consumption compared with those observed in advanced countries.     

Gordon Tullock and Richard McKenzie. The New World of Economics.

The authors extend the literature on the efficacy of high school economics instruction in two directions. First, they assess how much economic knowledge that California students acquired in their compulsory high school course is retained on their entering college. Second, using as a control group some college students from the state of Washington, where there is no mandate for high school economics instruction, the authors evaluate the impact of California's high school economics mandate on students’ economic literacy when they enter college. The testing instrument is the Test of Economic Literacy (TEL).     

巴塞尔新资本协议与信用风险模型的监管审查研究

巴塞尔新资本协议鼓励银行采用内部评级法评估信用风险以提取资本准备,但内部评级法必须满足监管审查的要求。基于新资本协议的这一要求,从监管机构的角度出发,建立信用风险模型监管审查框架,讨论了银行建立内部信用风险模型时,为确保其合理性需要满足的条件与要求,从而为我国的监管机构提供参考借鉴。     

乡村旅游市场可持续发展的经济学分析

乡村旅游目前已经成为国内旅游业界、政府和学者共同关注的热点话题之一。然而由于我国乡村旅游研究的开展时间不长,在研究内容上更多的是乡村旅游概念的阐释、乡村旅游开发意义、乡村旅游发展模式等的探讨,在研究方法上较多地与地理学相结合,研究内容的狭窄与研究方法单一,缺少对乡村旅游较深层次的研究,显然不利于乡村旅游的可持续发展,为此,本文拟从经济学的角度,探讨乡村旅游的可持续发展。     

期货市场支持新农村建设的路径选择

2008年的全球粮食危机给各国政府敲响了警钟,对我国而言,建设社会主义新农村,就必须注重发挥市场机制的积极作用.本文从分析期货市场的功能入手,剖析了期货市场在我国新农村建设中的重要意义和作用,指出了制约期货市场支持新农村建设的因素,提出了期货市场支持新农村建设的建议和具体措施.     

政府经济职能:市场机制的补充者

转变政府职能是现阶段经济改革的一项主要任务,关系整个改革进程,因此,我们亟需寻求政府职能的恰当定位。政府经济职能不能定位于市场的替代者,而应定位于市场机制的补充者。把政府经济职能定位于市场机制的补充者是政府职能的真正回归。     

The Scholarship of Teaching Economics

The authors report on the results of a telephone survey of 1,001 employees of seven large corporations conducted for the Business Roundtable as part of its public policy program. A set of 20 questions keyed to the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics was embedded in the survey. A measure of economic literacy was constructed from the survey results. Greater economic literacy was associated with more overall education, more college economics coursework, high incomes, and being male. An examination of individual test questions revealed that previous college economics had substantial effects on employees' current economic literacy.     

A critical review of the full economic evaluations of pharmacological treatments for glaucoma

Objective: This literature review aimed to critically assess the ‘state of the art’ of the full economic evaluations (FEEs) on glaucoma pharmacological treatments. This is the first review that tries to thoroughly assess both costs and consequences of pharmacoeconomic evaluations on glaucoma.

Methods: A literature search was done on the international databases PubMed and EMBASE, to find all the studies published in English on pharmacological treatments for glaucoma in the period 1997–2006. An economic and a clinical checklist were adopted to analyse FEEs and their clinical sources (CS). Finally, the reliability of the 33 FEEs included in the 15 articles selected was assessed from the health authorities' perspective by applying a critical appraisal checklist of 16 items derived from the economic and clinical variables previously analysed.

Results: The major weakness of the articles reviewed seemed to be the extensive recourse to expert panel opinions and assumptions at each phase of the economic analysis. About one-third of the FEEs even based their clinical efficacy on non-evidence-based sources. The critical appraisal of the CS methodological characteristics showed that their quality was not high either.

Conclusion: This review showed that most FEEs on glaucoma suffer substantial methodological limits, mainly due to the scarce quality of available CSs, so public authorities should consider their results very cautiously for healthcare decision making.     

The Macroeconomics Curriculum: A Proposal for Change

Intermediate macroeconomics should be taught as a two-part sequence, with the first component based on a benchmark model that reflects accepted theory and applications to policy, with electives introduced in subsequent courses.     

A critical review of the full economic evaluations of pharmacological treatments for colorectal cancer

Abstract

Objective: This literature review makes a critical assessment of the methodology of the full economic evaluations (FEEs) conducted on colorectal cancer (CRC) pharmacological treatments.

Method: A literature search of the international databases PubMed and EMBASE was carried out to find all the studies published in the English language on pharmacological treatments for CRC in the period 2001–2005. A checklist was adopted to analyse the 13 FEEs selected. Fourteen clinical trials were extracted from the references as sources of efficacy data and were reviewed separately according to a clinical checklist. Finally, the reliability of the 13 FEEs was assessed from the health authorities' perspective by applying a critical appraisal checklist of 16 items derived from the economic and clinical variables previously analysed.

Results: This review found that pharmacoeconomic studies on CRC showed important methodological weaknesses mainly regarding economic evaluation, whilst the sources of clinical evidence were of higher technical quality, although the clinical effectiveness of therapies was not fully sustained by their results.     

The New Comparative Political Economy

With the collapse of communism in the late 1980s the field of comparative political economy has undergone major revision. Socialism is no longer considered the viable alternative to capitalism it once was. We now recognize that the choice is between alternative institutional arrangements of capitalism. Progress in the field of comparative political economy is achieved by examining how different legal, political and social institutions shape economic behavior and impact economic performance. In this paper we survey the new learning in comparative political economy and suggest how this learning should redirect our attention in economic development.JEL classification: B53, O10, O20, P0     

我国城市劳动力市场的就业效率

本文借助协整分析、面板数据模型等方法和工具,运用劳动部门公布的全国部分城市劳动力市场供求情况的数据和国家统计局公布的经济运行的相关数据,分析经济形势的变化对劳动力市场的影响,发现我国的经济增长与城市劳动力市场的求人倍率之间存在着较为稳定的均衡关系,发展第三产业是吸纳更多劳动力的有效途径,各行业投资吸纳就业的能力没有差别,因此,着重投资于居民服务和其他服务业等行业,可以有效引致更多劳动力需求。