Recent and Selected Publications of Anton D. Lowenberg
Books:
The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis (with William H. Kaempfer), Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
International Economic Sanctions: A Public Choice Perspective (with William H. Kaempfer), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Articles and Book Chapters:
"Explaining local growth-management policies: the role of public goods," American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, 2010, 2(1), 45-55 (with Donna Driscoll and Dennis Halcoussis).
"Impact of apartheid on economic growth: implications and empirical evidence from South Africa," Comparative Economic Studies, March 2010, 52, 38-61 (with Radha Bhattacharya).
"The Obama effect," Journal of Economics and Finance, July 2009, 33, 324-329 (with Dennis Halcoussis and G. Michael Phillips).
"Sanctions" (with William H. Kaempfer), in Kenneth A. Reinert and Ramkishen S. Rajan, eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
"Why Iraq?" Defence and Peace Economics, February 2008, 19, 1-20 (with Timothy Mathews).
"Targeted sanctions: motivating policy change," Harvard International Review, Fall 2007, 29, 68-72 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"The political market for immigration restrictions: model and test," Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, June 2007, 16, 159-192 (with Örn B. Bodvarsson, William H. Kaempfer, and William Mertens).
"The political economy of economic sanctions" (with William H. Kaempfer), in Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, eds., Handbook of Defense Economics, Vol. 2: Defense in a Globalized World, Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland, 2007, pp. 867-911.
"The political economy of immigration policy: some simple interest group analytics," Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2004, 23(3), 147-168 (with William H. Kaempfer and William Mertens). (published in March 2006)
"International economic sanctions against a dictator," Economics and Politics, March 2004, 16, 29-51 (with William H. Kaempfer and William Mertens).
"The quantity and quality of radio broadcasting: are small markets underprovided?" International Journal of the Economics of Business, November 2003, 10, 347-357 (with Dennis Halcoussis).
"Comment on Lance Davis and Stanley Engerman, 'Sanctions: neither war nor peace,'" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2003, 17, 233-235 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"Instrument choice and the effectiveness of international sanctions: a simultaneous equations approach," Journal of Peace Research, September 2003, 40, 519-535 (with Chao Jing and William H. Kaempfer).
"A public choice model of the role of multinational firms in international relations," North American Journal of Economics and Finance, March 2003, 14, 131-144 (with Chao Jing and William H. Kaempfer).
"Linguanomics: official language laws, entry barriers and public goods," Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2000, 18(2-3), 101-118 (with Gary M. Anderson and Dennis Halcoussis). (published in October 2001)
"A public choice analysis of the political economy of international sanctions" (with William H. Kaempfer), in Steve Chan and A. Cooper Drury, eds., Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: Theory and Practice, Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 2000, pp. 158-186.
"Regulatory barriers to entry in the healthcare industry: the case of alternative medicine," Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Winter 2000, 40, 485-502 (with Gary M. Anderson, Dennis Halcoussis, and Linda Johnston).
"The ivory bandwagon: international transmission of interest-group politics," The Independent Review, Fall 1999, 4, 217-239 (with William H. Kaempfer); reprinted in Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close, eds., Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 2005, pp. 181-205.
"Unilateral versus multilateral international sanctions: a public choice perspective," International Studies Quarterly, March 1999, 43, 37-58 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"Local public goods and Jim Crow," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, December 1998, 154, 599-621 (with Dennis Halcoussis).
"Why South Africa’s apartheid economy failed," Contemporary Economic Policy, July 1997, 15, 62-72.
"A threshold model of electoral policy and voter turnout," Rationality and Society, January 1993, 5, 107-126 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"A post-apartheid constitution for South Africa: lessons from public choice," Cato Journal, Fall 1992, 12, 297-319.
"Using threshold models to explain international relations," Public Choice, June 1992, 73, 419-443 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"Efficient constitution formation and maintenance: the role of 'exit,'" Constitutional Political Economy, Winter 1992, 3, 51-72 (with Ben T. Yu).
"Neoclassical economics as a theory of politics and institutions," Cato Journal, Winter 1990, 9, 619-639.
"Constitutional environments and the contractual state: the cases of South Africa and Hong Kong," Journal of Comparative Economics, March 1990, 14, 51-69 (with Ben T. Yu).
"The theory of international economic sanctions - a public choice approach: reply," American Economic Review, December 1989, 79, 1304-1306 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"Sanctioning South Africa: the politics behind the policies," Cato Journal, Winter 1989, 8, 713-727 (with William H. Kaempfer).
"An economic theory of apartheid," Economic Inquiry, January 1989, 27, 57‑74.
"The theory of international economic sanctions: a public choice approach," American Economic Review, September 1988, 78, 786‑793 (with William H. Kaempfer).