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Books

  1. E. Tower, Effective Protection, Domestic Resource Cost and Shadow Prices: A General Equilibrium Perspective, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 664 (September, 1984) (182 pp.)
  2. Gilbert, J; Tower, E, Introduction to numerical simulation for trade theory and policy (January, 2012), pp. 1-295, World Scientific, ISBN 9789814390811 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Sweeney, RJ; Tower, E; Willett, TD, Judging economic policy: Selected writings of Gottfried Haberler (January, 2021), pp. 1-246, ISBN 9780429703638 [doi]  [abs]
  4. E. Tower, Judging Economic Policy: Selected Writings of Gottfried Haberler, edited by Richard J. Sweeney, Edward Tower and Thomas D. Willett (1997), Boulder, Westview Press (238pp.)
  5. E. Tower and G. Pursell, On Shadow Pricing, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 792 (January, 1986) (131 pp.)
  6. E. Tower, The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas and Exchange-Rate Flexibility, Special Paper in International Economics, No. 11 (May, 1976), Princeton University (98 pp.)

Papers Published

  1. Kiyoun Han and E. Tower, "Cost Benefit Analysis of Foreign Aid for a Highly Distorted Economy: The Case of Sudan,", in Foreign Aid: New perspectives, Recent Economic Thought, edited by Kanhaya Gupta (1999), Kluwer Academic Publishers (series edited by William Darity, Jr. and Warren J. Samuels.)  [abs]
  2. Gretchen Phillips and E. Tower, "Labor PAC Campaign Contributions and NAFTA Legislators: Rhetoric or Retribution?", in Empirical Methods In International Trade: Essays in Honor of Mordechai E. Kreinin, edited by Michael Plummer (2004 forthcoming), Edward Elgar [pdf]  [abs]
  3. Omer Gokcekus, Justin Knowles and E. Tower, "Sweetening the Pot: How American Sugar Buys Protection", in The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies, edited by Devashish Mitra and Arvind Panagariiya (2004 forthcoming), Elsevier [html]  [abs]
  4. William H. Kaempfer, Edward Tower and Thomas D. Willett, "Trade Protectionism", in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, edited by Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider (October, 2003), pp. 550-576, Kluwer Academic Publishers [pdf]  [abs]
  5. E. Tower, Are GMO’s Predictions Prescient? Using them to predict Vanguard’s Mutual Fund Returns (October, 2010) [papers.cfm], [doi]

Papers Submitted

  1. Tower, E, Are GMO’s Predictions Prescient? Using Them to Predict Vanguard’s Mutual Fund Returns, October 2010 (October, 2010)
  2. Cassidy, AW; Tower, E; Wang, X, Manufacturing fetishism: The neo-mercantilist preoccupation with protecting manufacturing (January, 2015), pp. 137-175, World Scientific, ISBN 9789814520157 [doi]
  3. Tower, E, Strategic Asset Allocation in Practice: Using Vanguard Funds to Clone GMO’s Benchmark‐Free Allocation Fund (October, 2010) [papers.cfm]

Book Reviews

  1. W. Max Corden, Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 70 no. 2 (October, 2003), pp. 435-7
  2. Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns, Kyklos, vol. 56 no. 2 (January, 2003), pp. 280-1, Princeton University Press

Journal Articles

  1. Gokcekus, O; Tower, E, "An Efficiency Enhancing Minimum Wage", Journal of Policy Reform, vol. 7 no. 2 (Spring, 2003), pp. 22pp. [html]  [abs]
  2. Cvijanovic, V; Mikic, M; Tower, E, "Evaluating Croatian Equities", Zagreb Journal of Economics, vol. 7 no. 10 (2003), pp. 73-88 [html]  [abs]
  3. Conway, P; Csaplar, W; Tower, E, "How to Encourage Exports Without a Budgetary Cost: Comment on Wang and Tsai", Revista Internzaionale de Science Economiche e Commercialli (International Review of Economics and Business", vol. 47 no. 4 (December, 2000), pp. 701-704  [abs]
  4. Reinker, KS; Tower, E, "Index Fundamentalism Revisited", Journal of Portfolio Management, vol. 30 no. 4 (Summer, 2003), pp. 31, ISSN 0095-4918  [abs]
  5. Gibbs, R; Gokcekus, O; Tower, E, "Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions", Journal of Policy Reform, vol. 5 no. 3 (December, 2002), pp. 127-132, Blackwell [html]  [abs]
  6. Reinker, KS; Tower, E, "Predicting Equity Returns for 37 Countries: Tweeking the Gordon Formula", Journal of Investing, vol. 13 no. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 21 pp.  [abs]
  7. Harney, M; Tower, E, "Rational Pessimism: Predicting Equity Returns by Tobin's q and Price/Earnings Ratios", The Journal of Investing, vol. 12 no. 2 (Fall, 2003), pp. 58-69  [abs]
  8. Gokcekus, O; Phillips, JJ; Tower, E, "School Choice: Money, Race and Congressional Voting on Vouchers", Public Choice, vol. 119 no. 1 (2004), pp. 20  [abs]
  9. Kaempfer, WH; Tower, E; Willett, TD, "The Employment Maximizing Import Quota Under Domestic Monopoly", Journal of International Logistics and Trade, vol. 1 no. 1 (2003), pp. 22 [pdf]  [abs]
  10. Allen, DL; Lewis, L; Tower, E, "U.S. Concessions in the Kennedy Round and Short Run Labor Adjustment Costs: Still Further Evidence, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business (Fall, 1980), pp. 107-110
  11. Gan, KP; Tower, E, A general equilibrium cost- benefit approach to policy reform and project evaluation in Malaysia., Singapore Economic Review, vol. 32 no. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 46-61  [abs]
  12. Tower, E; Gilbert, J, A golden jubilee note on Graaff's optimum tariff structures, History of Political Economy, vol. 32 no. 3 (Fall, 2000), pp. 421-436, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]
  13. Tower, BE; Christiansen, RE, A Model of the Effect of a Fertilizer Subsidy on Income Distribution and Efficiency in Malawi, Eastern Africa Economic Review (December, 1988)
  14. Paskalev, Z; Yildirim, H, A Theory of Outsourced Fundraising: Why Dollars Turn into 'Pennies for Charity', Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, vol. 137 no. 189 (December, 2014), pp. 1-18, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  15. Daniel, BC; Fried, H; Tower, E, Adjustment Speeds under Tariffs and Quotas in a Monetary Model of Balance of Payments, Journal of International Economics (May, 1985), pp. 373-380
  16. Loo, T; Tower, E, Agricultural liberalization, welfare, revenue and nutrition in developing countries, Agricultural trade liberalization (January, 1990), pp. 307-341  [abs]
  17. GANG, IN; TOWER, E, Allocating Jobs under a Minimum Wage: Queues vs. Lotteries, Economic Record, vol. 66 no. 3 (January, 1990), pp. 186-194, WILEY, ISSN 0013-0249 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  18. Li, C; Tower, E; Zhang, R, Alternative Measures of Mutual Fund Performance: Ranking DFA, Fidelity, and Vanguard, vol. 9 (January, 2020), pp. 417-476 [doi]  [abs]
  19. Tower, E; Sheer, A; Baas, HJ, Alternative Optimum Tariff Strategies as Devices for Transferring Real Income, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 45 no. 1 (July, 1978), pp. 18-18, JSTOR, ISSN 0038-4038 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  20. Reinker, KS; Tower, E, Are vanguard's managers good stock-pickers or style-pickers?, Journal of Portfolio Management, vol. 31 no. 3 (January, 2005), pp. 109-111, Institutional Investor Journals, ISSN 0095-4918 [doi]  [abs]
  21. Tower, E, Buffer stocks are better stabilizers than quotas, Journal of International Economics, vol. 11 no. 1 (January, 1981), pp. 113-115, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  22. Gokcekus, O; Tower, E, Can a Periodic Voluntary Export Restraint Raise Importing Country Welfare?, Journal of Economic Integration (December, 1997), pp. 485-504
  23. Tower, E, CAPE: Using Its Variants to Predict the Returns from Investing in the S&P 500 Index, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper no. 262 (September, 2013)
  24. Tower, E, Classic and Enhanced Index Funds: Performance and Issues (November, 2011), pp. 237-264, JOHN WILEY & SONS INC [doi]
  25. E. Tower, Comment on Jacob Dreyer's 'Countervailing Foreign Use of Monopoly Power', in Challenges to a Liberal International Economic Order, edited by R. Amacher, G. Haberler and T. D. Willett (1979), pp. 369-77, American Enterprise Institute
  26. Tower, E, Commercial Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates, Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 1973), pp. 436-454 [repository]
  27. Willett, TD; Tower, E, Currency areas and exchange-rate flexibility, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 105 no. 1 (September, 1970), pp. 48-65, Springer Nature, ISSN 0043-2636 [doi]
  28. Gang, IN; Tower, E, Differential Cash-in-Advance Constraints: A Good Reason for Protection in LDCS?, Eastern Africa Economic Review (December, 1986), pp. 193-195
  29. Wang, Y; Tower, E, Do Chinese Investors Get What They Don't Pay For? Expense Ratios, Loads, and the Returns to China's Open-End Mutual Funds, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) no. 231 (October, 2016), pp. 29 pages  [abs]
  30. Tower, E, Do the U.S. and China Discriminate against One Another's Goods?, Asian Profile (April, 1993), pp. 101-112
  31. Gokcekus, O; Tower, E, Does Trade liberalization benefit young and old alike?, Review of International Economics, vol. 6 no. 1 (January, 1998), pp. 50-58, WILEY, ISSN 0965-7576 [doi]  [abs]
  32. Pursell, G; Tower, E, DRC criteria. Comment on Lucas, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 26 no. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 163-167, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0304-3878 [doi]  [abs]
  33. Kennedy, P; Tower, E, Dynamic Adjustment in an IS-LM Framework, Eastern Economic Journal (January, 1980), pp. 53-58
  34. Tower, E, Dynamic Stability and the Choice Between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates, The Economic Journal, vol. 87 no. 345 (March, 1977), pp. 81-81, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0013-0133 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  35. Tower, E, Economic imperialism and resource nationalism. Comment on Kemp and Ohyama, Journal of International Economics, vol. 9 no. 3 (January, 1979), pp. 423-427, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [doi]  [abs]
  36. E. Tower, Effective Market Classification, The New Cambridge School of Economic Policy and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates, in Flexible Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments: Essays in Memory of Egon Sohmen, edited by John S. Chipman and Charles P. Kindleberger (1980), pp. 231-56, Amsterdam: North-Holland
  37. Dutton, J; Tower, E, Effective Protection and Market Distortions: Comment, Review of Economic Studies (July, 1979), pp. 561-563
  38. TOWER, E, EFFECTIVE PROTECTION OF CANADIAN EXPORTING INDUSTRY - FURTHER COMMENT, QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, vol. 18 no. 4 (Winter, 1978), pp. 102-105, ISSN 0033-5797 (Erratum, Winter 1979.) [Gateway.cgi]
  39. Christian Weber with Edward Tower, Empirical Models of the Effects of U.S. Protectionism: A Survey of the Recent Literature, Inaugural Issue, North American Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 1 no. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 163-79
  40. Weber, C; Tower, E, Empirical models of the effects of United States protection: A survey of recent literature, North American Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 1 no. 1 (January, 1990), pp. 163-179, Elsevier BV, ISSN 1042-752X [doi]  [abs]
  41. E. Tower and T. D. Willett, Enforceability and the Resolution of International Jurisdictional Conflicts: Comments on Abbott, Atwood and Ordover, in Symposium on Conflicts of Jurisdiction: 'Extraterritoriality of Economic Legislation', Law and Contemporary Policy, edited by Pamela Gann (Summer, 1987), pp. 189-96
  42. Lim, H; Tower, E, Enhanced versus Traditional Indexation for International Mutual Funds: Evaluating DFA, WisdomTree and RAFI Powershares (June, 2013)
  43. Li, C; Tower, E; Zhang, R, Evaluating the Changed Collection of Equity Mutual Funds for Vanguard Participants in the Duke University Retirement Plan (May, 2019)
  44. Kennedy, P; Tower, E, Excess Demand in the IS-LM Model, Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 6 no. 1 (January, 1980), pp. 53-56
  45. Tower, E; Courtney, MM, Exchange Rate Flexibility and Macroeconomic Stability, Review of Economics and Statistics (May, 1974), pp. 215-224
  46. Tower, E, Exchange-Rate Change and Foreign Portfolio Investment, Economia Internazionale (August, 1974), pp. 564-571
  47. Tower, E, Excise Tax Evasion: Comment on Panagariya and Narayana, Public Finance no. 3 (1989), pp. 506-509
  48. Tower, E, Explaining the Yeh Paradox: A Comment, Eastern Economic Journal (April, 1988), pp. 189-192
  49. Lim, H; Tower, E, Fundamental versus traditional indexation for international mutual funds: Evaluating dfa, wisdomtree, and rafi powershares (January, 2016), pp. 331-353 [doi]  [abs]
  50. Appleyard, DR; Field, AJ; Tower, E, Further Analysis of the Effects of Offshore Assembly Provisions on the US Tariff Structure, Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 12 no. 4 (April, 1985), pp. 62-65, Emerald, ISSN 0144-3585 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  51. Tower, E, GMO versus Vanguard: Assessing the Performance of Comparable Funds (October, 2010) [papers.cfm]
  52. Tower, E; Barry, D; Stansky, E, GMO's Predictions: A Useful Guide for Investors? (June, 2014)  [abs]
  53. Gokcekus, O; Adams, M; Grabowski, H; Tower, E, How did the 2003 prescription drug re-importation bill pass the house?, Economics and Politics, vol. 18 no. 1 (March, 2006), pp. 27-45, WILEY, ISSN 0954-1985 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  54. TOWER, EDWARD; YE, YIFANVICTOR, How Taxes and Real Wage Inflexibility Interact to Make Trade Deficits Addictive: The Tertiary and Quaternary Burdens and Benefits of a Transfer, The Singapore Economic Review, vol. 61 no. 02 (June, 2016), pp. 1640026-1640026, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt, ISSN 0217-5908 [doi]  [abs]
  55. TOWER, E; YE, YV, HOW TAXES AND REAL WAGE INFLEXIBILITY INTERACT TO MAKE TRADE DEFICITS ADDICTIVE: THE TERTIARY AND QUATERNARY BURDENS OF A TRANSFER, The Singapore Economic Review, vol. 61 no. 02 (June, 2016), pp. 1-15  [abs]
  56. Gilbert, J; Tower, E, Import Quotas, Foreign Capital and Income Distribution: Comment, The American Economist, vol. 42 no. 2 (Fall, 1998), pp. 90-93 [doi]  [abs]
  57. Reinker, KS; Tower, E, Index fundamentalism revisited, Journal of Portfolio Management, vol. 30 no. 4 (January, 2004), pp. 37-50+4, ISSN 0095-4918 [doi]  [abs]
  58. TOWER, E, INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 4 no. 1 (January, 1986), pp. 23-35, Wiley, ISSN 0735-0007 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  59. Tower, E, Inelastic offer curves, stability and the difference between tariffs and quotas, Atlantic Economic Journal, vol. 5 no. 3 (December, 1977), pp. 64-67, Springer Nature, ISSN 0197-4254 [doi]
  60. WILLETT, TD; TOWER, E; CHRISTENSON, DB, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND PROTECTIONISM: INTRODUCTION THE RELEVANCE OF MODERN ECONOMIC RESEARCH, Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 2 no. 4 (January, 1984), pp. 1-5, WILEY [doi]
  61. TOWER, E, INTERNATIONAL-TRADE REGIMES AND PRIVATE PROPERTY-RIGHTS - COMMENT, CONTEMPORARY POLICY ISSUES, vol. 5 no. 2 (1987), pp. 13-15, WILEY [doi]
  62. Tower, E, Making the Best Use of Trade Restrictions in the Presence of Foreign Market Power, Journal of International Economics (November, 1983), pp. 456-473
  63. Simmons, P; Tower, E, Market Power and Buffer Stocks: Erratum, The Economic Record (March, 1993), pp. 107
  64. TOWER, E, MAXIMUM REVENUE TARIFF, MALAYAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, vol. 20 no. 2 (1975), pp. 33-37, ISSN 0047-5599 (reprinted with fewer errors, April 1976, 104- 11.) [Gateway.cgi]
  65. Tower, E, Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a World of Capital Mobility: A Respecification, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 39 no. 3 (July, 1972), pp. 251-262, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  66. Tower, E, Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates in the Inter-Run, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 877-96 (November, 1972)
  67. Tower, E, Money demand and the terms of trade, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 111 no. 4 (December, 1975), pp. 623-633, Springer Nature, ISSN 0043-2636 [doi]
  68. Dean, JW; Tower, E, More on Internal and External Balance in an Almost Classical World, Western Economic Journal, vol. 11 no. 2 (June, 1973), pp. 232-237 (and "Rejoinder," in the same issue, p. 240.) [doi]
  69. Tower, E; Willett, TD, More on Official Versus Market Financing of Payments Deficits and the Optimal Pricing of International Reserves, Kyklos, vol. fasc. 3 no. 3 (1972), pp. 537-552, WILEY [doi]
  70. Ross, R; Tower, E, More on the neutrality of forward market intervention, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 109 no. 4 (December, 1973), pp. 701-703, Springer Nature, ISSN 0043-2636 [doi]
  71. Tower, E, More on the Welfare Cost of Inflationary Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (November, 1971), pp. 850-860
  72. KEMP, MC; TOWER, E, NONTRADED GOODS, FACTOR MARKET DISTORTIONS, AND GAINS FROM TRADE - COMMENT, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, vol. 65 no. 1 (1975), pp. 249-250, ISSN 0002-8282 [Gateway.cgi]
  73. Tower, E, Notes on the Dynamics of Optimum Tariff Policy, Revista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (January, 1979), pp. 84-89
  74. TOWER, E, ON A QUICK AND DIRTY APPROACH TO ESTIMATING 2ND BEST OPTIMUM TARIFFS, RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE E COMMERCIALI, vol. 31 no. 3 (1984), pp. 212-219, ISSN 0035-6751 [Gateway.cgi]
  75. Tower, E, On Domestic Resource Cost, Journal of International Economic Integration (Spring, 1992), pp. 20-44
  76. Copeland, B; Tower, E; Webb, M, On negotiated quotas, tariffs, and transfers, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 41 no. 1 (January, 1989), pp. 774-788, ISSN 0030-7653 [doi]
  77. Tower, E; Pursell, GG, On Shadow Pricing Foreign Exchange, Non-Traded Goods and Labor in a Simple General Equilibrium Model, Oxford Economic Papers (June, 1987), pp. 318-332
  78. Tower, E, On the best use of trade controls in the presence of foreign market power, Journal of International Economics, vol. 15 no. 3-4 (January, 1983), pp. 349-365, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [doi]  [abs]
  79. Tower, E, On the Dispersion of Optimum Tariffs on Goods with Fixed World Prices, International Review of Economics and Business (April, 1988), pp. 407-412
  80. Daniel, BC; Fried, HO; Tower, E, On the dynamic non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas in the monetary model of the balance of payments: Comment, Journal of International Economics, vol. 18 no. 3-4 (January, 1985), pp. 373-379, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [doi]  [abs]
  81. Tower, E, On the functional relationship between distortions and welfare, Atlantic Economic Journal, vol. 12 no. 1 (March, 1984), pp. 65-66, Springer Nature, ISSN 0197-4254 [doi]
  82. Tower, E, On the functional relationship between tariffs and welfare, Journal of International Economics, vol. 5 no. 2 (January, 1975), pp. 189-199, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  83. Eaton, J; Grossman, G; Kaempfer, WH; Tower, E, On the Lerner Symmetry Theorem under Monopoly: Comment [on Ray], Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 1983), pp. 529-537
  84. Pedersson, G; Tower, E, On the long and short run relationship between the forward rate and the interest parity, Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 1 no. 1 (Winter, 1979), pp. 65-77, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0164-0704 [doi]  [abs]
  85. Kemp, MC; Tower, E, On the Shape of the Trade Indifference Curve: Rejoinder to Batra, American Economic Review (September, 1976), pp. 709 (with errata, AER, March 1977, 255.) [repository]
  86. E. Tower, On the Symmetry between Effective Tariffs and Value Added Subsidies, in Industrial Policy and International Trade, Volume 62 in Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, edited by Victor Canto and J. Kimball Dietrich (1992), pp. 95-124, JAI Press
  87. Canto, V; Kaempfer, WH; Tower, E, On the Validity of the Lerner Neutrality and Symmetry Theorems in The Presence of Non-Traded Goods, Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, vol. 62 no. 87 (1992), pp. 125?28
  88. Fried, H; Tower, E, On Using a Single Tariff to Exploit Market Power on Many Traded Goods, Economia Internazionale (1985), pp. 318-322
  89. Hillman, AL; Tower, E; Fishelson, G, On Water in the Quota, The Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 13 no. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 310-310, JSTOR, ISSN 0008-4085 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  90. Feldman, DH; Tower, E, Optimal destabilizing speculation or why the optimum tariff may oscillate, De Economist, vol. 134 no. 3 (September, 1986), pp. 368-377, Springer Nature, ISSN 0013-063X [doi]  [abs]
  91. Phillips, GA; Tower, E, Organized labor's campaign contributions after the NAFTA vote: Rhetoric or retribution? (December, 2004), pp. 169-186 [doi]
  92. Tower, E, Performance of Actively Managed versus Index Funds: The Vanguard Case (November, 2011), pp. 211-236, JOHN WILEY & SONS INC [doi]
  93. Kaempfer, WH; Tower, E; Willett, TD, Performance-Contingent Protection, Economics and Politics, vol. 1 no. 3 (1989), pp. 261-275, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
  94. Tower, E, Profit control in New Zealand*, New Zealand Economic Papers, vol. 13 no. 1 (January, 1979), pp. 1-23, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0077-9954 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  95. Feldman, DH; Tower, E, Profitable Destabilizing Speculation as Intertemporal Price Discrimination, The American Economist, vol. 28 no. 2 (Fall, 1984), pp. 60-63 (Errata, Spring 1985, 84.) [doi]
  96. Gilbert, J; Tower, E, Protectionism, labor mobility, and immiserizing growth in developing economics, Economics Letters, vol. 75 no. 1 (March, 2002), pp. 135-140, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0165-1765 [doi]  [abs]
  97. Copeland, B; Tower, E; Webb, M, Quota Wars and Tariff Wars, Oxford Economic Papers (October, 1989), pp. 774-788
  98. Tower, E; Zheng, W, Ranking mutual fund families: Minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude, International Review of Economics, vol. 55 no. 4 (October, 2008), pp. 315-350, Springer Nature, ISSN 1865-1704 [doi]  [abs]
  99. Tower, E, Ranking the optimum tariff and the maximum revenue tariff, Journal of International Economics, vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 1977), pp. 73-79, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [repository], [doi]
  100. DEAN, JW; TOWER, E, REJOINDER, Economic Inquiry, vol. 11 no. 2 (January, 1973), pp. 240-240, WILEY [doi]
  101. Lucas, REB; Pursell, G; Tower, E, Resolution Ex ante versus ex post DRC's and the possibility of negative shadow prices, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 26 no. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 173-174, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0304-3878 [doi]
  102. R. E. Shields, E. Tower and T. D. Willett, Revaluation Can Be Inflationary: An Analysis of Demand Shifts in a Policy Dilemma Model, in The Effects of Exchange-Rate Adjustments, edited by Peter B. Clark, et al. (1977), pp. 62-69, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office
  103. Gokcekus, O; Phillips, JJ; Tower, E, School choice: Money, race, and congressional voting on vouchers, Public Choice, vol. 119 no. 1-2 (January, 2004), pp. 241-254, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs]
  104. Tower, E, Separability: The One Principal and SerW>us Defect of Bickerdike's and Edgeworth's Elasticity Approach to Balance-of-Payments Adjustment Problems?, History of Political Economy, vol. 25 no. 3 (Fall, 1993), pp. 493-497, Duke University Press, ISSN 0018-2702 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  105. Tower, E; Pursell, GG; Han, K, Shadow Pricing in a Specific-Factors Model: Comment, The Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 20 no. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 399-399, JSTOR, ISSN 0008-4085 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  106. Tower, E, Should the Equities in the North Carolina State Employees’ Pension Fund Be Indexed or Actively Managed?, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) no. 210 (May, 2016), pp. 20 pages  [abs]
  107. Tower, E, Some Empirical Results on Trade and National Prosperity: Comment on Kindleberger, Cato Journal (Winter, 1983), pp. 639-644
  108. McCarthy, JE; Tower, E, Static Indexing Beats Tactical Asset Allocation, Journal of Index Investing, vol. 11 no. 4 (March, 2021), pp. 41-52 [doi]  [abs]
  109. Baker, A; Gross, F; Tower, E, Super 301 trade sanctions: An empirical investigation of the wood products case, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 8 no. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 39-55, Elsevier BV, ISSN 1062-9408 [doi]  [abs]
  110. John Stuart Mill, Supplementary Comment (on Borcherding and Silverberg], Journal of Political Economy (February, 1980), pp. 208 (suggested by W. H. Kaempfer and E. Tower.)
  111. Pinsky, L; Tower, E, Temporary duty suspension in the United States, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 6 no. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 17-36, Elsevier BV, ISSN 1062-9408 [doi]  [abs] [author's comments]
  112. Kaempfer, WH; Tower, E, The balance of payments approach to trade tax symmetry theorems, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 118 no. 1 (March, 1982), pp. 148-165, Springer Nature, ISSN 0043-2636 [doi]
  113. Tower, E, The Choice between a Tariff and a Quota: Comment [on Vastrup], Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. heft 4 no. 3 (1980), pp. 580-581 [doi]
  114. Park, D; Tower, E, The Commodity Creating Tariff and Other Paradoxes, International Review of Economics and Business (December, 1997), pp. 831-835
  115. T. D. Willett and E. Tower, The Concept of Optimum Currency Areas and the Choice between Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates, in Approaches to Greater Flexibility of Exchange Rates: The Burgenstock Papers, edited by Fred Bergsten, et al. (1970), pp. 407-15, Princeton University Press
  116. Gilbert, J; Takahiko, T; Linananda, K; Tower, E; Tuncharoenlarp, A, The deadweight cost of war: An illustrative CGE, Economics of Peace and Security Journal, vol. 6 no. 2 (July, 2011), pp. 34-40  [abs]
  117. Leontief, WW; Morgan, A; Polenske, K; Simpson, D; Tower, E, The Economic Impact - Industrial and Regional - of an Arms Cut, Review of Economics and Statistics (August, 1965), pp. 217-241 [repository]
  118. Gokcekus, O; Tower, E, The Effects of Import Quotas on National Welfare: Comment, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 64 no. 2 (October, 1997), pp. 584-584, JSTOR, ISSN 0038-4038 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  119. Tower, E, The encyclopedia of public choice., PUBLIC CHOICE, vol. 127 no. 3-4 (June, 2006), pp. 499-502, SPRINGER
  120. Tower, E, The Estimation of the Cost of Adjustment to External Disequilibria: Comment, Review of Economics and Statistics (August, 1976), pp. 382-383
  121. Tower, E, The geometry of community indifference curves, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 115 no. 4 (December, 1979), pp. 680-700, Springer Nature, ISSN 0043-2636 [doi]  [abs]
  122. Hartigan, JC; Tower, E, The leontief question: A Cobb-Douglas approach to simulating the U.S. income distribution in Autarky, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 122 no. 4 (December, 1986), pp. 677-689, Springer Nature, ISSN 0043-2636 [doi]
  123. Tower, E, The Optimum Incentive-Schedule Tariff, The Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 11 no. 4 (November, 1978), pp. 726-726, JSTOR, ISSN 0008-4085 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  124. Grimes, M; Tower, E, The Optimum Minimum Wage When Labor Services are Taxed, International Review of Economics and Business (June, 1998), pp. 1-9
  125. Tower, E, The Optimum Quota and Retaliation, The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 42 no. 4 (October, 1975), pp. 623-623, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0034-6527 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  126. Tower, E, The Optimum Tariff Retaliation and Autarky, Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 3 no. 2 (April, 1976), pp. 72-75
  127. Sweeney, RJ; Tower, E; Willett, TD, The ranking of alternative tariff and quota policies in the presence of domestic monopoly, Journal of International Economics, vol. 7 no. 4 (January, 1977), pp. 349-362, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-1996 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  128. Tower, E, The Short-Run Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates, Economic Record, vol. 48 no. 3 (September, 1972), pp. 411-423, WILEY [doi]
  129. Stein, JL; Tower, E, The Short-Run Stability of the Foreign Exchange Market, Review of Economics and Statistics (May, 1967), pp. 173-185 [repository]
  130. Gang, IN; Tower, E, The Stahl-Alexeev paradox: A note, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 44 no. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 189-191, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0022-0531 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  131. Tosini, SC; Tower, E, The textile bill of 1985: The determinants of congressional voting patterns, Public Choice, vol. 54 no. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 19-25, Springer Nature, ISSN 0048-5829 [doi]  [abs]
  132. Feldman, DH; Tower, E, The Welfare Economics of an Unstable Real Exchange Rate, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 52 no. 3 (January, 1986), pp. 607-607, JSTOR, ISSN 0038-4038 (lead article.) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  133. Willett, TO; Tower, E, THE WELFARE ECONOMICS OF INTERNATIONAL ADJUSTMENT, in The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Finance, vol. 26 no. 2 (January, 1971), pp. 287-302, WILEY [doi]
  134. Tower, E, Tobin’s Q Versus Cape versus Caper: Predicting Stock Market Returns Using Fundamentals and Momentum (December, 2011)
  135. Csaplar, WW; Tower, E, Trade and industrial policy under oligopoly: Comment, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 103 no. 3 (January, 1988), pp. 599-602, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0033-5533 [doi]
  136. Hartigan, JC; Tower, E, Trade Policy and the American Income Distribution, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 64 no. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 261-261, JSTOR, ISSN 0034-6535 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  137. Tower, E, Transfers and Taxes: How Balancing the Budget with Distortionary Taxation Further Blesses the Recipient of a Transfer and Burdens the Donor (August, 2016)
  138. Tower, E; Yichong, Z, Vanguard Versus DFA & Wisdomtree, and the Value Added by Dan Wiener’s Independent Adviser for Vanguard Investors (November, 2009)
  139. Li, C; Tower, E; Zhang, R, Vanguard versus Fidelity: Multidimensional Comparison of the Index Funds and ETFs of the Two Largest Mutual Fund Families, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper no. 283 (March, 2019)
  140. Tower, E; Yang, C, Vanguard versus the Enhanced Indexers, DFA, RAFI, and WisdomTree: Is Traditional Indexation Passé? (November, 2012)
  141. Feldman, DH; Tower, E, Welfare gain from a stable exchange rate: Comment, Atlantic Economic Journal, vol. 12 no. 2 (January, 1984), pp. 65, Springer Nature, ISSN 0197-4254 [doi]
  142. Tower, E, Yucel on Reducing U.S. Vulnerability to Oil Supply Shocks: Comment, Southern Economic Journal (April, 1996), pp. 1093-1095

Chapters in Books

  1. T.Loo and E. Tower, Agricultural Liberalization, Welfare, Revenue and Nutrition in LDCS, in Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Implications for Developing Countries, Chapter 11, edited by Ian Golden and Odin Knudsen (June, 1990), pp. 307-42, OECD/World Bank (Also published in French.)
  2. T. Loo and E. Tower, Agricultural Protectionism and the Less Developed Countries: The Relationship Between Agricultural Prices, Debt Servicing Capacities and the Need for Development Aid, in Tax Reform in Less Developed Countries, Chapter 2, edited by Andrew B. Stoeckel, David Vincent and Sandy Cuthbertson (1989), pp. 64-93, Duke University Press (Summarized on p. 59 of The Economist, June 4, 1988.)
  3. Li, C; Tower, E; Zhang, R, Alternative measures of mutual fund performance: Ranking DFA, fidelity, and vanguard, in Handbook Of Applied Investment Research (January, 2020), pp. 417-476, ISBN 9789811222634 [doi]  [abs]
  4. P. L. Brock and E. Tower, Economic Liberalization in Less Developed Countries: Guidelines from the Empirical Evidence and Clarification of the Theory, in Economic Reform and Stabilization in Latin America, Chapter 2, edited by Connolly and C. Gonzalez-Vega (1987), pp. 19-44 (proceedings of a conference held in March 1985 in Santo Domingo.)
  5. E. Tower, On Shadow Prices, Effective Protection, and Domestic Resource Cost, in Companion to Economic Thought, Chapter 30, edited by David Greenaway, Michael Bleaney and Ian Steward (1991), pp. 614-33, Routledge (Reprinted in A Guide to Modern Economics, Routledge, 1996.)
  6. E. Tower and T. Loo, On Using Computable General Equilibrium Models to Facilitate Tax, Tariff and Other Policy Reforms in Less Developed Countries, in Tax Reform in Less Developed Countries, Chapter 11, edited by Malcolm S. Gillis (1989), pp. 391-416, Duke University Press
  7. Phillips, GA; Tower, E, Organized labor’s campaign contributions after the NAFTA vote: Rhetoric or retribution?, in Empirical Methods in International Trade: Essays in Honor of Mordechai Kreinin (January, 2004), pp. 169-186, ISBN 9781843768388 [doi]
  8. Willett, TD; Tower, E, The concept of optimum currency areas and the choice between fixed and flexible exchange rates, in Approaches to Greater Flexibility of Exchange Rates (January, 2015), pp. 407-415, ISBN 9781400867271

Reading Lists

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

Other

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