Department of Economics

371 Holman Hall

University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677

atyoung@olemiss.edu

662 915 5829

 

“I am convinced that if it were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their  immediate aim, [the price] mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind.”

 

-Friedrich A. Hayek

Included on my CURRICULUM VITAE are my . . .

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

“Sigma Convergence versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data,”

           (with Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy) Journal of Money Credit and Banking. (Forthcoming).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=980267

“Retail Prices During a Change in Monetary Regimes: Evidence from Sears, Roebuck Catalogs,”

           (with Alexander K. Blue) Managerial and Decision Economics. (Forthcoming).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=687265

“The Consequences of the US DOJ’s Antitrust Activities: A Macroeconomic Perspective,”

           (with William F. Shughart) Public Choice. (Forthcoming).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1014130

“Growth and Convergence across the U.S.: Evidence from County-Level Data,”

           (with Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy) Review of Economics and Statistics. 88 (2006):

           pp. 671-681.

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=811044

“Reallocating Labor to Initiate Changes in Capital Structures,” Economics Letters. 89 (2005): pp. 275-282.

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“Labor’s Share Fluctuations, Biased Technical Change, and the Business Cycle,” Review of Economic

           Dynamics. 7 (2004): pp. 916-931.

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“The Real Thing: Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959,” (with Daniel Levy)

           Journal of Money Credit and Banking. 36 (2004): pp. 765-799.

           http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=389665

“Enterprise and Biodiversity: Do Market Forces Yield Diversity of Life,” (with David Schap)

           Cato Journal. 19 (1999): pp. 49-67.

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“Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System,” (with Walter Block)

           International Journal of Value-Based Management. 12 (1999): pp. 195-207.

           http://www.springerlink.com/content/n3jq682hn1p2p01h/fulltext.pdf

 

PAPERS UNDER REVISION FOR RESUBMISSION

 

“Nobelity and Novelty: Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott’s Contributions Viewed from Vienna,”

           (with Robert J. Subrick) (July 2007) Review of Austrian Economics.

 

SUBMITTED PAPERS

 

“The Elasticity of Elasticity of Substitution Estimates: Is Anything Robust?” (with Yuncan Cen)

           (October, 2005).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1015339

“Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth,”

           (with Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy) (September, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=949007

“A Capital-Based Theory of Secular Growth,” (August, 2007).

           http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/young.pdf

“Explicit Evidence on an Implicit Contract,” (with Daniel Levy) (July, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=739984

“Robust Correlates of County-Level Growth in the U.S.,” (with Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy)

           (May, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=984418

“One of the Things we Know that Ain’t So: Why U.S. Labor’s Share is not Relatively Stable,”

           (April, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=650783

“Did Leaving the Gold Standard Tame the Business Cycle? Evidence from NBER Reference Dates &

           Real GNP,” (with Shaoyin Du) (March, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=985152

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

“Whither Technical Change? Why Austrian Capital Theory Never Became a Theory of Economic Growth,”

           (September, 2007).

“Transfers and Convergence,” (with Matthew J. Higgins, Daniel Levy, and Hyun Park) (September, 2007).

“A Generalization and Critique of Hoppean Ethics,” (August, 2007).

           http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/young2.pdf

“Becker Meets Glaeser - When Ethnic Factionalism Becomes Unprofitable: The Case of the Liberian

           Civil Wars,” (August, 2007).

“Re-measuring Labor’s Share: A Direct Approach Using Annual Time Series Data, 1948 to 1996,”

           (with Hernando Zuleta) (March, 2007).

“Heterogeneous Convergence,” (with Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy) (February, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=947843

“Labor’s Share - Aggregate and Industry: Accounting for Both in a Model of Unbalanced Growth with

           Induced Innovation,” (with Hernando Zuleta) (January, 2007).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=880062

“When to Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Foreign Aid and Balanced Growth,” (March, 2005).

“Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level

           Educational Attainment Data,” (with Matthew J. Higgins and Daniel Levy) (March, 2004).

           http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=516123

“Dividends after the Dissolution: A Study of the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Trusts,”

           (with Robert S. Chirinko) (May 2004).