If a paper is not available online, please contact me at elliottp@unr.edu for a copy.

Current Unpublished Working Papers:

1. Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker, "Price Deflation and Policy Response:  A Comparative View of Japan, China, and the United States" -- in PDF format (earlier version presented at Claremont McKenna College's workshop on "The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation and the Prospects for Global Deflation," April 2003).
2. Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker, "Price Deflation and Consumption:  Central Bank Policy and Japan’s Economic and Financial Stagnation"-- in PDF format.
3. Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker, "Price Deflation and Central Bank Independence"-- in PDF format.
4. Parker, E., & M. Pingle, "The Distributional Effects of Selection in an Optimal Growth Model"-- in PDF format (earlier version presented at the WEA International Meetings in Seattle, July 2002).
5. Parker, E., & J. Wendel, "Payment System Design, Vertical Integration, and an Efficient Continuum of Care" -- in PDF format.
6. Parker, E., "Firm Governance and the Chinese Stock Market" -- in PDF format (presented at the ASSA meetings in Boston, January 2000).
7. Parker, E., & J.G. Wen, "The Asian Financial Crisis and the Lessons for Globalization" -- in PDF format (presented at the ASSA meetings in Boston, January 2000).

Refereed Journal Articles

1. Parker, E. (1994), "The accuracy of generalized cost function estimation: A Monte Carlo approach," Southern Economic Journal 60(4): 907-26.   (abstract)
2. Bhattacharyya, A., E. Parker, & K. Raffiee (1994), "An examination of the effect of ownership on the relative efficiency of public and private water utilities," Land Economics 70(2): 197-209.  (abstract)
3. Parker, E. (1994), "Relative efficiency in Chinese urban construction: A comparison of state-owned and collective enterprises after reform," China Economic Review 5(2): 161-78.  (abstract)
4. Parker, E. (1995), "Prospects for the state-owned enterprise in China's Socialist Market Economy," Asian Perspective 19(1): 7-35. (abstract published in International Political Science Abstracts).
5. Parker, E. (1995), "Shadow factor price convergence and the response of Chinese state-owned construction enterprises to reform," Journal of Comparative Economics 21(1): 54-81. (abstract published in Journal of Financial Abstracts 3B, Feb. 15, 1996.)
6. Parker, E. (1995), "Schumpeterian Creative Destruction and the growth of Chinese enterprises," China Economic Review 6(2): 201-223.  (abstract)
7. Parker, E. (1997), "The effect of scale on the response to reform by Chinese construction units," Journal of Development Economics 52(2): 331-353.  (abstract)
8. Parker, E., & J. Wendel (1998), "Induced inefficiency as a response to the union threat," Journal of Labor Research 19(4): 629-646.  (abstract)
9. Lambert, D.K., & E. Parker (1998), "Productivity in Chinese provincial agriculture," Journal of Agricultural Economics 49(3): 378-392.  (abstract)
10. Parker, E. (1999), "Are wage increases in Chinese state industry efficient? A study of productivity in the Nanjing machine building industry," Contemporary Economic Policy 17(1): 55-68.  (abstract)
11. Bhattacharyya, A., & E. Parker (1999), "Labor productivity and migration in Chinese agriculture: A stochastic frontier approach," China Economic Review 10(1): 59-74.  (abstract)
12. Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker (2001), "Financial liberalization in China:  Limitations and lessons of the Japanese regime," Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy 6(1): 1-21.  (abstract) (full text).
13. Banks, D., E. Parker, & J. Wendel (2001), "Strategic interaction among hospitals and nursing facilities:  The efficiency effects of payment systems and vertical integration," Health Economics 10(2): 119-134.  (abstract).
14. Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker (2002), "Asian finance and the role of bankruptcy: A model of the transition costs of financial liberalization," Journal of Asian Economics 13(3): 297-318.  (online)

1. Parker, E., & J. Wendel (1997), "Reform of China's state-owned sector: Parallels with the U.S. regulatory experience," in The Reformability of China's State Sector, edited by J.G. Wen & D. Xu: 281-299 (World Scientific Publishing).  (abstract)
2. Parker, E., & J. Wendel, (2002) "The Comparative Efficiency of Producing Health:  An Analysis of the World Health Organization's Rankings," in the Proceedings of the the Athens Institute for Education and Research's First International Conference on Health Economics and Health Management, Athens, Greece, May 2002. -- in PDF format: Part 1 (text), Part 2 (figures and tables), and Part 3 (references)
3. Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker (2003), "Japanese economic structures and finance:  characteristics and causes of the current slowdown," in Structural Foundations of International Finance, edited by P.C. Padoan, P.  Brenton, & G. Boyd: chapter 9 (Cheltenham, U.K.:  Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.).  (full text)

1. Li, L., E. Parker, & T.G. Rawski (1995), "Report on the CES Shanghai Conference on Reformability of the State Sector in China," China Economic Review 6(2): 247-250.  (text)
2. Parker, E.  (1996), "Kang Chen -- The Chinese Economy in Transition: Micro Changes and Macro Implications," in Comparative Economic Studies 38(2/3): 166-168.
3. Parker, E.  (1996), "Susumu Yabuki -- China New Political Economy; The Giant Awakes," in Economic Development and Cultural Change 45(1): 219-222.
4. Parker, E.  (1996), "Kui-Wai Li -- Financial Repression and Economic Reform in China," in China Review International 3(2): 482-486.
5. Parker, E.  (1996), "Xiaoming Li -- Disequilibria, Economic Reforms and Economic Policies," in Journal of Comparative Economics 23(3): 348-351.
6. Chang, G.H., G.H. Jefferson, N.L. Lardy, E. Parker, & T.G. Rawski (1998), "Will China catch the 'Asian Flu'?," China Economic Review 9(1): 97-101.  (text)
7. Parker, E.  (1999), "Zhonghui Wang -- A Study of Public Policy Influences upon the Development of China's Rural Enterprises 1978-1992," in China Review International 6(1): 277-279.
8. Parker, E.  (2003), "Yiping Huang -- China's Last Steps Across the River," in China Review International 9(2), forthcoming.

1. Chang, C., G.H. Chang, B.M. Fleisher, E. Parker, & Y. Wang (2000), "Introduction," China Economic Review 11(2).
2. Parker, E. (2000), "Introduction," China Economic Review 11(3).
3. Chang, C.,  B.M. Fleisher, & E. Parker (2000), "Introduction," China Economic Review 11(4).
4. Chang, C., G.H. Chang, B.M. Fleisher, E. Parker, & Y. Wang (2001), "Editorial note," China Economic Review 12(4).
5. Parker, E. (2002), "Current issues in the Chinese economy," China Economic Review 13(4): 329-330.