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VOLUME	FEBRUARY 2001	NUMBER 1	E-Mail: iaes@iaes.org
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Tariff Rate Quotas and the Economic Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization in the World Trade Organization Roland Herrmann, Marc Kramb, and Christina Mönnich	1
SLOPOL1: A Macroeconomic Model for Slovenia Klaus Weyerstrass, Gottfried Haber, and Reinhard Neck	20
Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Play Nonlinearity in Aggregate EmploymentAnsgar Belke and Matthias Göcke	38
Dynamic Forecasting of Monetary Exchange Rate Models: Evidence from Cointegration Jae-Kwang Hwang	51
The Effect of Ceded Reinsurance on Solvency of Primary Insurers Yueyun Chen, Iskandar S. Hamwi, and Tim Hudson	65
The Role and Impact of Monetary Policy in CEFTA Countries Antonin Rusek	83
The Impact of Electronic Commerce on Small and Midsized Spanish Companies M. Yolanda Fernández Jurado and Paloma Bilbao Calabuig	91
Price Differentials in a Homogenous Product Market: The Case of the Water David W. Yoskowitz	100
An Analysis of Accoutning Measures on the Performance of U.S. International Corporations Gerald H. Lander and Alan Reinstein	107
Why Governments Sell Public Firms: The Spanish Case Joaquim Vergés	114
Activity-Based Costing Methodology for Third-Party Logistics Companies Carles Gríful-Miquela	133
Scientific Policy and Free Riders Oscar Alfranca	147
The Impact of NAFTA on California Exports Esmael Adibi and James L. Doti	159

RESEARCH NOTES
A Classroom Game Course for Teaching Public Goods Michael Pickhardt	167
The Effect of Monetary Policy on Real Exchange Rate Misalignment Hossein S. Kazemi and Ayla Ogus	167
Capitalism Redefined--Russian Style Darroll J. Stanley, Carole Tait-Stanley, and Victoria Gretsky	167
A Comparative Analysis of Banking Development in Estonia and Poland August Aarma	168
Economic Factors in Drug Law Enforcement Decisions Gregory M. Vecchi and Robert T. Sigler	168
A Firm's Performance and Behavior in a Transition Economy Vello Vensel	168
Prospects of Health Care Reform in Estonia Kaie Kerem	169
A First Assessment of the Public Procurement System in Latvia Andrew Limanski	169
Identifying Linkages Between the Money and Currency Markets Using Artificial Neural Networks Mona R. El Shazly	170

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International Advances in Economic Research, Volume 7, Number 1, February 2001

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