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Review of World Economics | 1970

Currency areas and exchange-rate flexibility

Thomas D. Willett; Edward Tower

ZusammenfassungWÄhrungsgebiete und WechselkursflexibilitÄt. — Der vorliegende Aufsatz diskutiert den Plan von optimalen WÄhrungsgebieten und gibt eine kritische Betrachtung der Literatur über dieses Thema. WÄhrend es keine allgemeine übereinstimmung über eine einheitliche Theorie der Determinanten von optimalen WÄhrungsgebieten gibt, liefert die Literatur über optimale WÄhrungsgebiete nützliche Informationen für die Bildung von »guten« WÄhrungsrÄumen und hat dazu beigetragen, das allgemeine Niveau der Debatte über feste versus flexible Wechselkurse zu heben. Die Literatur über optimale WÄhrungsgebiete ist besonders für die derzeit laufenden Diskussionen innerhalb des Gemeinsamen Marktes über WÄhrungsvereinheitlichung und eine grö\ere WechselkursflexibilitÄt von Bedeutung. Der Aufsatz schlie\t mit dem Hinweis, da\ der schnellste und effektivste Weg zu einer letztlich echten WÄhrungsunion in der EWG über eine übergangsperiode von gleitenden ParitÄten führen dürfte, wÄhrend gleichzeitig die makroökonomische Wirtschaftsunion innerhalb der EWG allmÄhlich harmonisiert wird.RésuméRégions monétaires et flexibilité du taux des changes. —Cet article discute le projet de régions monétaires optima et passe en revue critique la littérature à ce sujet. Quoiqu’il n’y ait pas unanimité dans la théorie des déterminants des régions monétaires optima, la littérature qui s’occupe de ces régions fournit tout de mÊme des informations utiles pour la création de «bonnes» régions monétaires. En outre, elle a contribué à mettre sur un niveau plus élevé la discussion des cours des changes ou fixes ou flexibles. La littérature des régions monétaires optima est surtout utile pour les discussions qu’on poursuit actuellement au sein du marché commun au sujet d’une unification monétaire et d’une plus grande flexibilité des cours des changes. Finalement, l’article constate que la manière la plus rapide et la plus efficace d’arriver à une monnaie commune effective pour la CEE sera de passer par une période de transition à parités glissantes, période pendant laquelle l’union macroéconomique de la CEE s’harmonisera graduellement.ResumenUniones monetarias y flexibilidad cambiaria. —El autor discute el plan de crear áreas monetarias optimales y pasa una revista critica a la literatura sobre este tema. Aunque no existe una compatibilidad absoluta de opiniones en cuanto a los factores déterminantes de àreas monetarias optimales, se encuentran en la literatura informaciones utiles para la creación de áreas monetarias de dimensión razonable, lo cual ha contribuido a mejorar el nivel al que se discute el problema de tipos de cambios fijos vs. flexibles. La literatura sobre áreas monetarias optimales es de gran interés en vista de las discusiones que actualmente se llevan a cabo dentro del Mercado ComÚn con el fin de crear una unión monetaria y de aumentar la flexibilidad cambiaria. Concluye el autor de que el modo más rápido y efectivo para llegar a una verdadera union monetaria en la CEE es a través de un período de transición con paridades deslizantes, creándose al mismo tiempo sucesivamente la unión económica dentro de la CEE.RiassuntoAree monetarie e flessibilità dei corsi di cambio. —II presente articolo discute il piano di aree monetarie ottimali e dà una considerazione critica della letteratura su questo tema. Mentre non c’è nessun accordo generale su una teoria unitaria delle determinanti di aree monetarie ottimali, la letteratura su ottimali aree monetarie fornisce utili informazioni per la forroazione di «buoni» spazi monetari ed ha contribuito a ció, ad elevare il livello générale del dibattito su corsi di cambio fissi contro corsi di cambio flessibili. La letteratura su aree monetarie ottimali è soprattutto importante per la corrente discussione attuale all’interno del Mercato Comune sull’unificazione monetaria e su una maggiore flessibilità dei corsi di cambio. L’articolo termina con l’indicazione che il cammino più veloce e più effettivo per una autentica e definitiva unione monetaria nella CEE dovrebbe passare per un periodo di transizione di parità oscillanti, mentre contemporaneamente la macroeconomica unione economica delia CEE è gradualmente armonizzata.


Journal of International Economics | 1977

The ranking of alternative tariff and quota policies in the presence of domestic monopoly

Richard J. Sweeney; Edward Tower; Thomas D. Willett

Abstract Bhagwati demonstrated the nonequivalence between tariffs and quotas in the presence of monopoly. This paper also assumes domestic production to be monopolized and shows that giving import licenses or tariff revenues to the domestic producer may raise or lower the welfare cost of protection and the price paid by consumers from the price under other tariff and quota arrangements which maintain the same market share for the domestic producer. However, if the monopolist realizes that commercial policy is an instrument used to maximize the policymakers welfare function, instead of being a goal in itself, the equivalence of tariffs and quotas re-emerges.


Quarterly Journal of Economics | 1973

Commercial Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates

Edward Tower

I. Is devaluation deflationary? 437. — II. The Keynesian model, 442. — III. Commercial policy under fixed rates, 446. — IV. Commercial policy under flexible rates, 449. — V. The terms-of-trade effect can be zero or negative, 452. — VI. Concluding remarks, 453.


The Journal of Portfolio Management | 2004

Index Fundamentalism Revisited

Kenneth S. Reinker; Edward Tower

A structured global optimization model budgets a funds total active risk (tracking error) among its asset classes or across investment managers. Its objective is to maximize total fund expected excess return (over benchmark) for a given level of total fund tracking error (the active risk budget), assuming that total fund and asset class tracking errors are controlled solely through the selection of investment managers with various active risk profiles. The key innovations are, first, that the efficient frontier (expected excess return versus tracking error) of each asset class is fitted to a functional form, and then the optimal active risk level for each asset class is determined using the asset class efficient frontier functions as inputs. The model compares well to a structured global linear model and an unstructured global model that optimizes with respect to all investment managers simultaneously.


Journal of International Economics | 1983

On the best use of trade controls in the presence of foreign market power

Edward Tower

This paper derives optimum tariffs for a country whose trading partner always exploits its own market power but assumes naively that the home country will leave its restriction unchanged. It then shows that a country which is a monopolist or monopsonist will always prefer its best price limit (price floor or ceiling) to its best tariff and prefer free trade to any quota. However, a duopsonist or duopolist will prefer its best quota to its best tariff and free trade to any price limit. Finally, the best import or export tariff of a country which fears retaliation may be negative.


The Journal of Investing | 2003

Predicting Equity Returns Using Tobin'S q and Price-Earnings Ratios

Matthew Harney; Edward Tower

In the spring of 2000, two books predicted a substantial fall in the S&P 500 Index. Robert Shillers Irrational Exuberance found that, historically, a high price earnings ratio, with real earnings averaged over 10 years, accurately predicts a low real rate of return from investing in the S&P 500 Index. Smithers and Wrights Valuing Wall Street found that a high Tobins q for the non-financial equities in the S&P 500 does the same. We discover that q beats all variants of the PE ratio for predicting real rates of return over alternative horizons. We also formalize the feedback mechanisms considered in both books.


Review of World Economics | 1982

The balance of payments approach to trade tax symmetry theorems

William H. Kaempfer; Edward Tower

ZusammenfassungDer Zahlungsbilanzansatz für die Theoreme der Steuersymmetrie im Au\enhandel. — In diesem Aufsatz wird zur Symmetrie zwischen Einfuhr- und Ausfuhrsteuern zweierlei festgestellt. Erstens: Wenn man die Steuer bei allen Positionen auf der Sollseite einer Zahlungsbilanz um die gleiche Summe erhöht wie die Zuschüsse für alle Positionen auf der Habenseite, dann ist die Erhöhung in dem Sinne neutral, da\ alle realen und nominalen Variablen unverÄndert bleiben. Diese Aussage gilt für alle Marktstrukturen, Wechselkurssysteme und Arten internationaler Transaktionen ebenso wie für den Fall, da\ viele Güter international gehandelt werden, für Zölle, die in der Ausgangssituation grö\er als Null sind, und unabhÄngig davon, ob die Annahme eines Zahlungsbilanzgleichgewichts gemacht wird oder nicht. Zweitens wird behauptet, da\ in plausiblen Modellen die Symmetrie auch bei unvollkommener Konkurrenz bestehen bleibt. Dies erscheint als eine nützliche Generalisierung des Lerner-Theorems, weil die logische Struktur des Theorems deutlich herausgestellt wird.RésuméL’approche de balance des paiements aux théorèmes des symétries de taxe sur le commerce. — Dans cet article nous nous occupons avec deux aspects de la symétrie entre les taxes importatrices et exportatrices. Premièrement, l’augmentation de la taxe sur tous les débits de la balance des paiements et de la subvention sur tous les crédits de la balance des paiements d’un montant égal est neutre sur ce point qu’elle ne change pas les variables nominales et réelles. De plus, cela est juste pour toutes les structures du marché, les systèmes du taux de change et les variétés des transactions internationales ainsi que pour le cas de plusieurs biens et des tarifs non-zéro au début et aussi indépendamment de la supposition que la balance des paiements est en équilibre. Deuxièmement, nous arguons que dans les modèles plausibles la symétrie continue d’exister mème s’il y a une concurrence imparfaite. C’est une généralisation utile du théorème de Lerner car il met en évidence la structure logique du théorème.Resumen:Balanza de pagos y teoremas de la simetría del impuesto sobre el commercio exterior. — En este estudio se discuten tres aspectos de la simetria entre impuestos sobre la importación y exportatión. En primer lugar, un aumento del impuesto sobre el pasivo de la balanza de pagos correspondido exactamente por un aumento del subsidio al activo de la balanza, deja todas las variables, reaies y nominales, inalteradas y es por lo tanto neutral. Esto tiene además validez para todo tipo de estructuras de mercado, sistemas de tipo de cambio, variedad de transacciones internacionales y para muchas mercaderias y tarifas iniciales que no sean nulas. En segundo lugar, se discute que la simetría permanece en presencia de competencia imperfecta en algunos modelos plausibles.


Economics and Politics | 2006

How Did the 2003 Prescription Drug Re-Importation Bill Pass the House?

Omer Gokcekus; Mike Adams; Henry G. Grabowski; Edward Tower

This paper examines the major interest groups in the debate over allowing the wholesale re-importation of prescription drugs through the Pharmaceutical Market Access Act. By making use of the logit model, we see the effects that each of these groups has had on the voting behavior of the 108 th Congress on the bill. We find evidence suggesting that Representatives are maximizing their electoral prospects: Contributions from pharmaceutical manufacturers and HMOs significantly influence the probability of voting for the Bill. Similarly, Representatives are sensitive to their constituencyis interest: employment in pharmaceutical manufacturing and the presence of senior citizens are also taken into account. However, the decision was by and large a partisan one: Party affiliation was the most important factor in passing the Bill.


Journal of Macroeconomics | 1979

On the long and short run relationship between the forward rate and the interest parity

George Pedersson; Edward Tower

Abstract The interest parity theory postulates that a one percentage point increase in the interest differential favoring a currency will be accompanied by an increase in the discount on that currency in the forward market of one percentage point as well. Using Canadian data we find that the forward rate responds to the interest differential with a lag. Moreover, a unit increase in the differential favoring the U.S. was accompanied in the long run by a rise in the discount on the forward U. S. dollar which was not significantly different from unity.


The Journal of Investing | 2008

Enhanced versus Passive Mutual Fund Indexing: Has DFA Outperformed Vanguard by Enough to Justify Its Advisor and Transaction Fees?

Edward Tower; Cheng-Ying Yang

Passive and enhanced index funds are two important options for investors. Vanguard is the largest provider of passive indexed funds, and DFA is one of the major providers of enhanced indexed funds, with uniquely close ties to academic financial research and an illustrious board of directors. Vanguard has low fees and investors can buy Vanguard funds directly. DFA’s fees are higher and one can invest in DFA funds only through an advisor, who charges for the service. Moreover, one must pay transaction fees to a custodian. We ask whether DFA has outperformed Vanguard by enough to justify the additional fees.

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Thomas D. Willett

Claremont Graduate University

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William H. Kaempfer

University of Colorado Boulder

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