Southern Economic Journal

A Journal of the Southern Economic Association. The Journal is published four times a year in January, April, July, and October.

Edited by:
Laura Razzolini – Virginia Commonwealth University

Editorial Board

SEJ Online: Atypon, RePec, Jstor

Editor’s Report: 2007, 2008, 2009

Information for Authors

Information for Reviewers

Data Policy

Aim and Scope

The SEJ is a publication of the Southern Economic Association. The SEJ began its publication in 1933 and it is the 8th oldest American academic journal in the economic profession. It is indexed in the Internet Index of Periodicals & Public Affairs Information Services, Journal of Economic Literature, and SSI. Impact Factor in 2009: 0.588.

News and Announcements

Additional Co-Editors Added to Editorial Board:

The Board of Trustees of the Southern Economic Association and I are pleased to announce the addition of two new Co-Editors to the Editorial Board of the Southern Economic Journal.

Cary Deck from the University of Arkansas and Jenny Minier from the University of Kentucky will join Robert Feinberg (American University), Kent Kimbrough (Duke University), John Pepper (University of Virginia), David Ribar (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and myself (Virginia Commonwealth University). Professor Deck’s expertise is in Experimental Economics, Applied Industrial Organization, and Microeconomics. He will help with papers currently handled by Feinberg and Razzolini. Professor Minier’s expertise is in Trade, Development, Growth, and some macro. She will help with papers currently handled by Kimbrough, Pepper, and Ribar.

Adding Co-Editors will help reduce the work load of the current Co-Editors. It will also narrow down the field of expertise required of each Co-Editor in handling papers. The closer the papers are to the editor’s field of expertise, the easier and quicker the editorial job is.

The Board of Trustees of the Southern Economic ASsociation and I welcome Professor Deck and Professor Minier to their new posts.

Georgescu-Roegen Prize in Economics 2010:

Sabia, Joseph J., and Richard V. Burkhauser. 2010. Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will a $9.50 Federal Minimum Wage Really Help the Working Poor? Southern Economic Journal 76(3):592-623.

Past winners

Top Highlights

Symposia

In honor of Mancur Olson, 74(1) - July 2007

Coates, Dennis, and Jac C. Heckelman. 2007. “Symposium: Marking the 25th Anniversary of Mancur Olson’s The Rise and Decline of Nations: Editors’ Introduction. 74(1):1-3.
Rosser, J. Barkley, Jr. 2007. The Rise and Decline of Mancur Olson’s View of The Rise and Decline of Nations. 74(1):4-17.
Heckelman, Jac C.. 2007. Explaining the Rain: The Rise and Decline of Nations after 25 years. 74(1):17-33.
Bischoff, Ivo. 2007. Model Uncertainty, Political Learning, and Institutions: A Broader View on Mancur Olson’s Theory of Institutional Sclerosis. 74(1):34-49.
Mokyr, Joel and John V.C. Nye. 2007. Distributional Coalitions, the Industrial Revolution, and the Origins of Economic Growth in Britain. 74(1):50-70.

On Hurricane Katrina 74(2) – October 2007
- Ewing, Bradley T., Jamie Brown Kruse, and Dan Sutter. 2007. Hurricanes and Economic Research: An Introduction to the Hurricane Katrina Symposium. 74(2):315-325.
- Landry, Craig E., Okmyung Bin, Paul Hindsley, John C. Whitehead, and Kenneth Wilson. 2007. Going Home: Evacuation-Migration Decisions of Hurricane Katrina Survivors. 74(2):326-343.
- Chappell, William F., Richard G. Forgette, David A Swanson, and Mark V. Van Boening. 2007. Determinants of Government Aid to Katrina Survivors: Evidence from Survey Data. 74(2):344-362.
- Boettke, Peter, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Peter Gordon, Sanford Ikeda, Peter T. Leeson, and Russell Sobel. 2007. The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina. 74(2):363-376.
- Whitt, Sam, and Rick K. Wilson. 2007. Public Goods in the Field: Katrina Evacuees in Houston. 74(2):377-387.
- Eckel, Catherine, Philip J. Grossman, and Angela Milano. 2007. Is More Information Always Better? An Experimental Study of Charitable Giving and Hurricane Katrina. 74(2):388-411.
On Gambling 76(4) – April 2010
- Paton, David, Donald S. Siegel, and Leighton Vaughan Williams. 2010. Gambling, Prediction Markets, and Public Policy. 76(4):878-883.
- Chung, Jaiho, and Joon Ho Hwang. 2010. An Empirical Examination of the Parimutuel Sports Lottery Market versus the Bookmaker Market. 76(4):884-905.
- Johnson, Johnnie E.V., Raymond O’Brien, and Ming-Chien Sung. 2010. Assessing Bettors’ Ability to Process Dynamic Information: Policy Implications. 76(4):906-931.
- Marginson, David. 2010. Market Inefficiency in Person-to-Person Betting: Examining ‘Known Loser’ Insider Trading on the Exchanges. 76(4):932-952.
- Paton, Donald, Donald S. Siegel, and Leighton Vaughan Williams. 2010. Productivity Measurement in Gambling: Plant-level Evidence from the United Kingdom. 76(4):953-975.
- Peirson, John, and Michael A. Smith. 2010. Expert Analysis and Insider Information in Horse Race Betting: Regulating Informed Market Behavior. 76(4):976-992.

On Second Life, 78(1) – July 2011
- “Trust among the Avatars: Playing Trust Games in a Virtual World, with and without Textual and Visual Cues” by Stephen Atlas and Louis Putterman
- “Trust in Second Life” by John Duffy
- “Asset Market Prices and Strategies in Virtual World Experiments” by Marina Fiedler
- “Unregulated Markets in Second Life” by Robert Bloomfield and Young-Jun Cho.

Upcoming Symposia

In honor of Roger Sherman