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Books

  1. Judging Economic Policy: Selected Writings of Gottfried Haberler, E. Tower, edited by Richard J. Sweeney, Edward Tower and Thomas D. Willett Boulder, Westview Press, 1997. (238pp)
  2. On Shadow Pricing, E. Tower and G. Pursell, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 792January, 1986. (131 pp)
  3. Effective Protection, Domestic Resource Cost and Shadow Prices: A General Equilibrium Perspective, E. Tower, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 664September, 1984. (182 pp)
  4. The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas and Exchange-Rate Flexibility, E. Tower, Special Paper in International Economics, No. 11 Princeton University, May, 1976. (98 pp)

Papers Published

  1. William H. Kaempfer, Edward Tower and Thomas D. Willett. ""Trade Protectionism"," The Encyclopedia of Public Choice  (October, 2003): 550-576.  [abs]
  2. Gretchen Phillips and E. Tower. ""Labor PAC Campaign Contributions and NAFTA Legislators: Rhetoric or Retribution?"," Empirical Methods In International Trade: Essays in Honor of Mordechai E. Kreinin  (2004 forthcoming).  [abs]
  3. Omer Gokcekus, Justin Knowles and E. Tower. ""Sweetening the Pot: How American Sugar Buys Protection"," The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies  (2004 forthcoming).  [abs]
  4. Kiyoun Han and E. Tower. ""Cost Benefit Analysis of Foreign Aid for a Highly Distorted Economy: The Case of Sudan,"," Foreign Aid: New perspectives Recent Economic Thought (1999). series edited by William Darity, Jr. and Warren J. Samuels  [abs]

Book Reviews

  1. W. Max Corden, Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes. Southern Economic Journal 70:2 (October, 2003): 435-7.
  2. Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns. Kyklos 56:2 (January, 2003): 280-1.

Journal Articles

  1. ""School Choice: Money, Race and Congressional Voting on Vouchers"," Omer Gokcekus, Joshua J. Phillips and E. Tower, Public Choice .1 (2004 forthcoming): 20.  [abs]
  2. ""Rational Pessimism: Predicting Equity Returns by Tobin's q and Price/Earnings Ratios"," Matthew Harney and Edward Tower, The Journal of Investing 12.2 (Fall, 2003): 58-69.  [abs]
  3. ""Predicting Equity Returns for 37 Countries: Tweeking the Gordon Formula"," Kenneth S. Reinker and E. Tower, Journal of Investing 13.2 (2004 forthcoming): 21 pp..  [abs]
  4. ""Index Fundamentalism Revisited"," Kenneth S. Reinker and E. Tower, Journal of Portfolio Management  (2004 forthcoming): 31.  [abs]
  5. ""An Efficiency Enhancing Minimum Wage"," Omer Gokcekus and E. Tower, Journal of Policy Reform 7.2 (2004 forthcoming): 22pp..  [abs]
  6. ""Evaluating Croatian Equities"," Vladamir Cvijanovic, Mia Mikic and E. Tower, Zagreb Journal of Economics 7.10 (2003): 73-88.  [abs]
  7. ""The Employment Maximizing Import Quota Under Domestic Monopoly"," William H. Kaempfer, E. Tower and Thomas D. Willett, Journal of International Logistics and Trade 1.1 (2003): 22.  [abs]
  8. ""Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions"," Ryan Gibbs, Omer Gokcekus and E. Tower, Journal of Policy Reform 5.3 (2002): 127-132.  [abs]
  9. ""Protectionism, Labor Mobility and Immiserizing Growth in Developing Countries"," John Gilbert and E. Tower, Economics Letters .1 (2002): 135-40.  [abs]
  10. ""How to Encourage Exports Without a Budgetary Cost: Comment on Wang and Tsai"," Patrick Conway, Wilfrid Csaplar and Eward Tower, Revista Internzaionale de Science Economiche e Commercialli (International Review of Economics and Business" 47.4 (2000): 701-704.  [abs]
  11. ""A Golden Jubilee Note on Graaff's Optimum Tariff Structures"," E. Tower and John Gilbert, History of Political Economy  (Fall, 2000): 421-436.  [abs]
  12. "Import Quotas, Foreign Capital and Income Distribution: Comment," John Gilbert and Edward Tower, The American Economist  (Fall, 1998): 90-93.
  13. "The Optimum Minimum Wage When Labor Services are Taxed," Mark Grimes and Edward Tower, International Review of Economics and Business  (June, 1998): 1-9 (lead article).
  14. "Does Trade Liberalization Benefit Young and Old Alike?," Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower, Review of International Economics  (February, 1998): 50-58.
  15. "The Commodity Creating Tariff and Other Paradoxes," Donyong Park and Edward Tower, International Review of Economics and Business  (December, 1997): 831-835.
  16. "Can a Periodic Voluntary Export Restraint Raise Importing Country Welfare?," Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower, Journal of Economic Integration  (December, 1997): 485-504.
  17. "The Effects of Import Quotas on National Welfare: Comment," E. Tower, Southern Economic Journal  (October, 1997): 584-587.
  18. "Super 301 Trade Sanctions: An Empirical Investigation of The Wood Products Case," Arnold Baker, Felicia Gross and Edward Tower, North American Journal of Economics and Finance  (Spring, 1997): 39-55.
  19. "Yucel on Reducing U.S. Vulnerability to Oil Supply Shocks: Comment," E. Tower, Southern Economic Journal  (April, 1996): 1093-1095.
  20. "Temporary Duty Suspension in the United States," Laura Pinsky and Edward Tower, North American Journal of Economics and Finance  (Spring, 1995): 17-36.  [author's comments]
  21. "Separability ? the One Principal and Serious Defect of Bickerdike's and Edgeworth's Elasticity Approach to Balance of Payments Adjustment Problems?," E. Tower, History of Political Economy 493?97 (Fall, 1993).
  22. "Do the U.S. and China Discriminate against One Another's Goods?," E. Tower, Asian Profile  (April, 1993): 101-112.
  23. "Market Power and Buffer Stocks: Erratum," P. Simmons and E. Tower, The Economic Record  (March, 1993): 107.
  24. "On Domestic Resource Cost," E. Tower, Journal of International Economic Integration  (Spring, 1992): 20-44.
  25. "On the Validity of the Lerner Neutrality and Symmetry Theorems in The Presence of Non-Traded Goods," V. Canto, W. H. Kaempfer and E. Tower, Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis 62.87 (1992): 125?28.
  26. "On the Symmetry between Effective Tariffs and Value Added Subsidies," E. Tower, Industrial Policy and International Trade Volume 62 in Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis (1992): 95-124.
  27. ""Allocating Jobs under a Minimum Wage: Queues Versus Lotteries," I. N. Gang and E. Tower, Economic Record  (June, 1990): 186-194.
  28. "Empirical Models of the Effects of U.S. Protectionism: A Survey of the Recent Literature," Christian Weber with Edward Tower, North American Review of Economics and Finance Inaugural Issue1.1 (Spring, 1990): 163-79.
  29. "Quota Wars and Tariff Wars," B. Copeland, E. Tower and M. Webb, Oxford Economic Papers  (October, 1989): 774-88.
  30. "Excise Tax Evasion: Comment on Panagariya and Narayana," E. Tower, Public Finance .3 (1989): 506-509.
  31. "Performance-Contingent Protection," W. H. Kaempfer, E. Tower, and T. D. Willett, Economics and Politics  (1989): 261-75.
  32. "A Model of the Effect of a Fertilizer Subsidy on Income Distribution and Efficiency in Malawi," by E. Tower and R. E. Christiansen, Eastern Africa Economic Review  (December, 1988).
  33. "Trade and Industrial Policy under Oligopoly: Comment [on Eaton and Grossman]," Wilfrid Csaplar and E. Tower, Quarterly Journal of Economics  (August, 1988): 599-602.
  34. "Explaining the Yeh Paradox: A Comment," E. Tower, Eastern Economic Journal  (April- June 1988): 189-192.
  35. "On the Dispersion of Optimum Tariffs on Goods with Fixed World Prices," E. Tower, International Review of Economics and Business  (April-May 1988): 407-412.
  36. "The Stahl-Alexeev Paradox: A Note," I. N. Gang and E. Tower, Journal of Economic Theory  (February, 1988): 189-91.
  37. "Enforceability and the Resolution of International Jurisdictional Conflicts: Comments on Abbott, Atwood and Ordover," E. Tower and T. D. Willett, Symposium on Conflicts of Jurisdiction: 'Extraterritoriality of Economic Legislation' Law and Contemporary Policy (Summer, 1987): 189-96.
  38. "Resolution: Ex Ante Versus Ex Post DRC's and the Possibility of Negative Shadow Prices," R. E. B. Lucas, G. G. Pursell and E. Tower, Journal of Development Economics  (June, 1987): 173-74.
  39. "DRC Criteria: Comment on Lucas," G. G. Pursell and E. Tower, Journal of Development Economics  (June, 1987): 163-67.
  40. "On Shadow Pricing Foreign Exchange, Non-Traded Goods and Labor in a Simple General Equilibrium Model," E. Tower and G. G. Pursell, Oxford Economic Papers  (June, 1987): 318-332.
  41. "Shadow Pricing in a Specific-Factors Model: Comment," E. Tower, G. G. Pursell and K. Han, Canadian Journal of Economics  (May, 1987): 399-402.
  42. "The Textile Bill of 1985: Determinants of Congressional Voting Patterns," S. C. Toscini and E. Tower, Public Choice 19-25 (May, 1987).
  43. "A General Equilibrium Cost-Benefit Approach to Policy Reform and Project Evaluation in Malaysia," K. P. Gan and E. Tower, Singapore Economic Review  (April, 1987): 46-61.
  44. "International Trade Regimes and Private Property Rights: Comment on Tumlir," E. Tower, Contemporary Policy Issues 5.2 (April, 1987): 13-15.
  45. "Differential Cash-in-Advance Constraints: A Good Reason for Protection in LDCS?," I. N. Gang and E. Tower, Eastern Africa Economic Review  (December, 1986): 193-95.
  46. "Industrial Policy in Less Developed Countries," E. Tower, Contemporary Policy Issues 4.1 (January, 1986): 23-35.
  47. "The Welfare Economics of an Unstable Real Exchange Rate," D. H. Feldman and E. Tower, Southern Economic Journal  (January, 1986): 607-16. lead article
  48. "The Leontief Question: A Cobb-Douglas Approach to Simulating the U.S. Income Distribution in Autarky," J. C. Hartigan and E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv heft 4 (1986): 19-44.
  49. "Optimal Destabilizing Speculation or Why the Optimum Tariff May Oscillate," D. Feldman and E. Tower, De Economist  (1986): 368-77.
  50. "Adjustment Speeds under Tariffs and Quotas in a Monetary Model of Balance of Payments," B.C. Daniel, H. 0. Fried, and E. Tower, Journal of International Economics  (May, 1985): 373-80.
  51. "On Using a Single Tariff to Exploit Market Power on Many Traded Goods," H. Fried and E. Tower, Economia Internazionale  (August-November 1985): 318-22.
  52. "Further Analysis of the Effects of Offshore Assembly Provisions on the U.S. Tariff Structure," D.Appleyard, A. J. Field, and E. Tower, Journal of Economic Studies .4 (1985): 62-65.
  53. "Profitable Destabilizing Speculation as Intertemporal Price Discrimination," D. H. Feldman and E. Tower, The American Economist  (Fall, 1984): 60-63. Errata, Spring 1985, 84
  54. "Welfare Gain from a Stable Exchange Rate: Comment," D. H. Feldman and E. Tower, Atlantic Economic Journal  (July, 1984): 65.
  55. "On a Quick and Dirty Approach to Estimating Second Best Optimum Tariffs," E. Tower, International Review of Economics and Business  (March, 1984): 212-19.
  56. "On the Functional Relationship between Distortions and Welfare," E. Tower, Atlantic Economic Journal  (March, 1984): 65-66.
  57. "International Trade and Protectionism: The Relevance of Modern Research," T. D. Willett, E. Tower and D. Christianson, Contemporary Policy Issues .4 (January, 1984): 1-5.
  58. "Some Empirical Results on Trade and National Prosperity: Comment on Kindleberger," E. Tower, Cato Journal  (Winter, 1983-1984): 639-44.
  59. "Making the Best Use of Trade Restrictions in the Presence of Foreign Market Power," E. Tower, Journal of International Economics  (November, 1983): 456-73.
  60. "On the Lerner Symmetry Theorem under Monopoly: Comment [on Ray]," J. Eaton, G. Grossman, W. H. Kaempfer, and E. Tower, Quarterly Journal of Economics  (August, 1983): 529-37.
  61. "Trade Policy and the American Income Distribution," J. C. Hartigan and E. Tower, Review of Economics and Statistics  (May, 1982): 261-70.
  62. "The Balance-of-Payments Approach to Trade Tax Symmetry Theorems," W. H. Kaempfer and E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv heft 1 (1982): 148-65.
  63. "Buffer Stocks Are Better Stabilizers than Quotas," E. Tower, Journal of International Economics  (February, 1981): 113-116.
  64. ""U.S. Concessions in the Kennedy Round and Short Run Labor Adjustment Costs: Still Further Evidence," D. L. Allen, L. Lewis and E. Tower, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business  (Fall, 1980): 107-10.
  65. "On Water in the Quota," A. L. Hillman, E. Tower, and G. Fishelson, Canadian Journal of Economics  (May, 1980): 310-16.
  66. "Supplementary Comment (on Borcherding and Silverberg]," John Stuart Mill, Journal of Political Economy  (February, 1980): 208. suggested by W. H. Kaempfer and E. Tower
  67. "Dynamic Adjustment in an IS-LM Framework," P. Kennedy and E. Tower, Eastern Economic Journal  (January, 1980): 53-58.
  68. "The Choice between a Tariff and a Quota: Comment [on Vastrup]," E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv heft 4 (1980): 580-81.
  69. "Effective Market Classification, The New Cambridge School of Economic Policy and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," E. Tower, Flexible Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments: Essays in Memory of Egon Sohmen  (1980): 231-56.
  70. "On the Long and Short Run Relationship between the Forward Rate and the Interest Parity," G. Pedersson and E. Tower, Journal of Macroeconomics  (Winter, 1979): 65-77.
  71. "Economic Imperialism and Resource Nationalism: Comment on Kemp and Ohyama," E. Tower, Journal of International Economics  (August, 1979): 423-27.
  72. "Effective Protection and Market Distortions: Comment," J. Dutton and E. Tower, Review of Economic Studies  (July, 1979): 561-63.
  73. "Notes on the Dynamics of Optimum Tariff Policy," E. Tower, Revista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali  (January, 1979): 84-89.
  74. "The Geometry of Community Indifference Curves," E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv heft 4 (1979): 680-700.
  75. "Comment on Jacob Dreyer's 'Countervailing Foreign Use of Monopoly Power'," E. Tower, Challenges to a Liberal International Economic Order  (1979): 369-77.
  76. "Profit Control in New Zealand," E. Tower, New Zealand Economic Papers  (1979): 1-23.
  77. "The Effective Protection of Canadian Exporting Industry: Further Comment," E. Tower, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business  (Winter, 1978): 102-105. Erratum, Winter 1979
  78. "The Optimum 'Incentive Schedule' Tariff," E. Tower, Canadian Journal of Economics  (November, 1978): 726-33.
  79. "Alternative Optimum Tariff Strategies as Devices for Transferring Real Income," E. Tower, A. Sheer, and H. G. Baas, Southern Economic Journal  (July, 1978): 18-31.
  80. "Inelastic Offer Curves, Stability and the Difference between Tariffs and Quotas," E. Tower, Atlantic Economic Journal  (December, 1977): 64-7.
  81. "The Ranking of Alternative Tariff and Quota Policies in the Presence of Domestic Monopoly," R. J. Sweeney, E. Tower and T. D. Willett, Journal of International Economics  (November, 1977): 349-62.
  82. "Dynamic Stability and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," E. Tower, Economic Journal  (March, 1977): 81-95.
  83. "Ranking the Optimum Tariff and the Maximum Revenue Tariff," E. Tower, Journal of International Economics  (February, 1977): 73-80.
  84. "Revaluation Can Be Inflationary: An Analysis of Demand Shifts in a Policy Dilemma Model," R. E. Shields, E. Tower and T. D. Willett, The Effects of Exchange-Rate Adjustments  (1977): 62-69.
  85. "On the Shape of the Trade Indifference Curve: Rejoinder to Batra," M. C. Kemp and E. Tower, American Economic Review  (September, 1976): 709. with errata, AER, March 1977, 255
  86. "The Estimation of the Cost of Adjustment to External Disequilibria: Comment," E. Tower, Review of Economics and Statistics  (August, 1976): 382-83.
  87. "The Optimum Tariff, Retaliation and Autarky," E. Tower, Eastern Economic Journal  (April, 1976): 72-75.
  88. "Money Demand and the Terms of Trade," E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv  (December, 1975): 623-33.
  89. "The Maximum Revenue Tariff," E. Tower, Malayan Economic Review  (October, 1975): 33-37. reprinted with fewer errors, April 1976, 104- 11
  90. "The Optimum Quota and Retaliation," E. Tower, Review of Economic Studies  (October, 1975): 623-30.
  91. "On the Functional Relationship between Tariffs and Welfare," E. Tower, Journal of International Economics  (May, 1975): 189-99.
  92. "Nontraded Goods, Factor Market Distortions, and the Gains from Trade: Comment," M. C. Kemp and E. Tower, American Economic Review  (March, 1975): 249-50.
  93. "Exchange-Rate Change and Foreign Portfolio Investment," E. Tower, Economia Internazionale  (August-November 1974): 564-71.
  94. "Exchange Rate Flexibility and Macroeconomic Stability," E. Tower and M. M. Courtney, Review of Economics and Statistics  (May, 1974): 215-24.
  95. ""More on the Neutrality of Forward Market Intervention," R. Ross and E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv  (December, 1973): 701-3.
  96. "Commercial Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," E. Tower, Quarterly Journal of Economics  (August, 1973): 436-454.
  97. "More on Internal and External Balance in an Almost Classical World," J. W. Dean and E. Tower, Western Economic Journal  (June, 1973): 232-37. and "Rejoinder," in the same issue, p. 240
  98. "Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates in the Inter-Run," E. Tower, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 877-96 (November, 1972).
  99. "The Short-Run Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," E. Tower, Economic Record  (September, 1972): 411-23.
  100. "Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a World of Capital Mobility: A Respecification," E. Tower, Review of Economic Studies  (July, 1972): 251-62.
  101. "More on Official Versus Market Financing of Payments Deficits and the Optimal Pricing of International Reserves," E.Tower and T. D. Willett, Kyklos fasc. 3 (1972): 537-52.
  102. "More on the Welfare Cost of Inflationary Finance," E. Tower, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking  (November, 1971): 850-60.
  103. "The Welfare Economics of International Adjustment," T. D. Willett and E. Tower, The Journal of Finance  (May, 1971): 287-302.
  104. "Currency Areas and Exchange-Rate Flexibility," T. D. Willett and E. Tower, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv  (September, 1970): 48-65.
  105. "The Concept of Optimum Currency Areas and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates," T. D. Willett and E. Tower, Approaches to Greater Flexibility of Exchange Rates: The Burgenstock Papers  (1970): 407-15.
  106. "The Short-Run Stability of the Foreign Exchange Market," J. L. Stein and E. Tower, Review of Economics and Statistics  (May, 1967): 173-85.
  107. "The Economic Impact - Industrial and Regional - of an Arms Cut," W. W. Leontief, A. Morgan, K. Polenske, D. Simpson, and E. Tower, Review of Economics and Statistics  (August, 1965): 217-41.

Chapters in Books

  1. "On Shadow Prices, Effective Protection, and Domestic Resource Cost," Companion to Economic Thought, Chapter 30, E. Tower. Edited by David Greenaway, Michael Bleaney and Ian Steward. 1991: 614-33. Reprinted in A Guide to Modern Economics, Routledge, 1996
  2. "Agricultural Liberalization, Welfare, Revenue and Nutrition in LDCS," Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Implications for Developing Countries, Chapter 11, T.Loo and E. Tower. Edited by Ian Golden and Odin Knudsen. June, 1990: 307-42. Also published in French
  3. "Agricultural Protectionism and the Less Developed Countries: The Relationship Between Agricultural Prices, Debt Servicing Capacities and the Need for Development Aid," Tax Reform in Less Developed Countries, Chapter 2, T. Loo and E. Tower. Edited by Andrew B. Stoeckel, David Vincent and Sandy Cuthbertson. 1989: 64-93. Summarized on p. 59 of The Economist, June 4, 1988
  4. "On Using Computable General Equilibrium Models to Facilitate Tax, Tariff and Other Policy Reforms in Less Developed Countries," Tax Reform in Less Developed Countries, Chapter 11, E. Tower and T. Loo. Edited by Malcolm S. Gillis. 1989: 391-416.
  5. "Economic Liberalization in Less Developed Countries: Guidelines from the Empirical Evidence and Clarification of the Theory," Economic Reform and Stabilization in Latin America, Chapter 2, P. L. Brock and E. Tower. Edited by Connolly and C. Gonzalez-Vega. 1987: 19-44. proceedings of a conference held in March 1985 in Santo Domingo

Reading Lists

  1. "Economics Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles and Problems, 4th Edition (a 25-volume set)," E. Tower,   (September, 1995). 6765 pp
  2. "Current Issues in International and Development Economics," E. Tower, Development I: Reading Lists  (1995): 244-45.
  3. "Protection in Applied General Equilibrium Models: A Progression of Simple GAMS Programs to Illustrate Fundamental Issues in Tariff Policy," E. Tower, International Economics Reading Lists  (1995): 276-277.
  4. "Intermediate Macroeconomics as a Lab Course," E. Tower, Macroeconomics Reading Lists  (1995): 209-219.
  5. "Economics Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles and Problems, 3rd edition (a 25-volume set)," E. Tower,   (August, 1990). 6259 pp
  6. "Economics Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles and Problems, 2nd edition (a 25-volume set)," E. Tower,   (August, 1985). 5023 pp
  7. "Economics Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles and Problems (a 25-volume set of teaching materials from leading scholars and universities)," E. Tower,   (October, 1981). 5404 pp
  8. "Economics Reading Lists and Course Outlines (a 15-volume set of reading lists by leading economists)," E. Tower,   (July, 1980). 2149 pp

Other

  1. ""January Theories"," E. Tower, Barron's (January 8, 2001): 42.
  2. "The January Barometer," E. Tower, Barron's (February 7, 2000): 58.
  3. "A Tobacco Grab," E. Tower, The (Raleigh) News and Observer, (letter to the editor) (December 3, 1998).
  4. "A Proper Trade Formula," E. Tower, International Herald Tribune (May 19, 1994). Letter to the Editor