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This study empirically investigates a hypothesis that the degree of aggregate federal personal income tax evasion may be influenced by the interest rate yield on high-grade municipal bonds. After allowing for the impacts of a variety of factors that typically have been inferred to influence...

This empirical note provides updated empirical evidence regarding whether a higher inflation rate of real prices on crude oil and whether real oil price shocks led to higher domestic inflation in the U.S. over the 1965-2012 period. Using autoregressive two stage least squares estimation, the...

Bank solvency questions and bank failures in the U.S. have become issues of renewed concern in recent years. Given the significance of bank solvency and bank failures for the health and stability of the U.S. economy, it is imperative to have insights into those factors that systematically...