The Capitol Economics Journal

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Last Updated: 2024-03-26

The Capitol Economics Journal (CEJ) is published biannually and all publication policies and processes are conducted in accordance with international standards of academic ethics and integrity. The CEJ accepts and publishes original, undergraduate research papers relating to all fields of economics. Consideration for each semester’s edition opens at the beginning of the semester and closes one month prior the end of the semester.

1. Do Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Direct Investment Impact The Carbon Dioxide Emissions Of Developing Countries?

Description:: This paper investigates the relationship between FDI and ODA inflows to developing nations and said nations' carbon dioxide emissions.
Author:: Stauder, Matthew
Keyword:: carbon dioxide, economic development, ODA, pollution, FDI, emissions, environmental economics, and foreign aid
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2022
Resource Type:: Article

2. Unbalanced Unpaid Work: Women’s Household Work and the Persistence of the Gender Pay Gap

Description:: This paper investigates the relationship between demographic, human capital, and employment variables on the unpaid labor gap in households.
Author:: Gloss, Robin
Keyword:: gender economics, feminist economics, gender inequality, labor economics, gender wage gap, and household work imbalance
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2022
Resource Type:: Article

3. Small Business Lending and Bank Consolidation

Description:: This paper examines the relationship between market concentration in banking and the quantity of loans available to small businesses. Using data on origination of small business loans and deposit market share from the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
Author:: Mueller-Oden, Luke
Keyword:: Market concentration, Banking, and Small business loans
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2021
Resource Type:: Article

4. The Effect of Climate Change on the Pricing and Transactional Volume of Real Estate

Description:: This study examines the effect of a region's elevation and precipitation levels on the pricing and transactional volume of its residential properties.
Author:: Curtis, Haley
Keyword:: real estate, climate change, flooding, home pricing, and environmental economics
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2022
Resource Type:: Article

5. Property Tax Capitalization in New Hampshire Housing Values

Description:: This paper focuses on the capitalization of property tax rate in housing values in towns of New Hampshire. The state lacks income and sales tax revenues, so the property tax is very volatile to the assessor’s ambitions for the fiscal year and considerably high for a state that doesn’t provide...
Author:: Berube, Selene
Keyword:: Property tax, Sales tax, New Hampshire, and Taxes
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2021
Resource Type:: Article

6. Minimum Wage Increases by Ballot Initiative: Effect on Restaurant Employment and Earnings

Description:: Fourteen states increased their minimum wages by law or by ballot at the start of 2020. In a perfectly competitive labor market, price floors like the minimum wage generate unemployment, but empirical evidence suggests a mixed effect, finding often that minimum wage increases have no significant...
Author:: Kotak, Parth
Keyword:: Minimum wage, Employment, Unemployment, and Labor market
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2021
Resource Type:: Article

7. Kurzarbeit Bis Lang-Arbeiter: Do European Short-Time Work Programs Prevent Long-Run Employment Increases?

Description:: This research paper analyzes the impact of short-time work programs on changes in the unemployment rate of workers ages 25-54 in 17 European countries over a 10-year period. Short-time work programs share common characteristics, but differ by country in their eligibility and conditionality...
Author:: Martin, Amelia
Keyword:: Unemployment, Economic downturns, and European trends
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2021
Resource Type:: Article

8. Asymmetric Efect of Fluctuating Oil Prices on Remittance Infows to the Philippines

Description:: This paper analyzes the efect of crude oil prices on remittance infows to the Philippines from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Author:: Levy, Shir
Keyword:: oil prices, international economics, remittances, emigration, capital account, energy economics, and development economics
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2022
Resource Type:: Article

9. The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Income Inequality in Japan

Description:: This paper examines the effects of quantitative easing on income inequality in Japan
Author:: Leo, David
Keyword:: monetary policy, income inequality, bank of japan, central banking, Gini coefficient, and financial economics
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2022
Resource Type:: Article

10. The Capitol Economics Journal Vol. 1 July 2021

Description:: The CEJ is published biannually and all publication policies and processes are conducted in accordance with international standards of academic ethics and integrity. The CEJ accepts and publishes original, undergraduate research papers relating to all fields of economics. Consideration for each...
Keyword:: international economics and economics
GW Unit:: Student Organization
Date Created:: 2021