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Global Patent Protection: Channels of North & South Welfare Gain
(2005-08-13)Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ... -
Existence of Equilibriuim in Welfare-enhancing Free Trade Areas
(2005-08-13)Proving the existence of equilibrium having specified properties is often synonymous with proving the result in trade theory. The Grandmont-McFadden proposition that any autarkic allocation can be replaced by a Pareto ... -
Does Consumer Search Matter for Firm Markups?
(2005-08-13)This study investigates the relationship between consumer search costs, inflation, and firm markups in retail trade by employing actual measures of search cost. Consistent with theory, results indicate that markups can be ... -
Do We Really Understand Home Ownership Rates? An International Study
(2005-08-13)This paper attempts to fill two gaps in the homeownership literature identified by Dietz and Haurin (2003): homeownership in less developed countries and the effects of race, ethnicity and income on tenure choice. We use ... -
Religious Pluralism and Religious Adherence in U.S. Counties: Assessing the Reassessment
(2005-08-13)We conduct an empirical test of the relationship between religious pluralism and religious participation in U.S. counties using a fixed-effects panel estimation technique. The empirical technique allows us to control for ... -
Unemployment Duration under Wrongful Discharge Law
(2005-08-13)In the 1970’s and 1980’s, courts in most U.S. states adopted some type of common law wrongful discharge cause of action. The various causes of action for wrongful discharge are generally placed into three categories: public ... -
Religious Freedom and State Religion in an Interational Panel
(2005-08-13)This paper explores the determinants and implications of church-state relationships. A theoretical model of a government’s decision to establish, or disestablish, a state church is developed and then tested with data from ... -
Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Plans, and Promoting Progress
(2005-08-13)Monopoly response to buyers who pay fraction c of the product cost is to raise the buyer price for the initial quantity q0 from p0 to 1/c p0, and adjust to a different price and quantity only if profits are thereby raised ... -
Openness, the Sacrifice Ratio, and Inflation: Is there a Puzzle?
(2005-08-13)The standard time-inconsistency-based explanation for the negative correlation between openness and inflation requires an inverse relationship between the sacrifice ratio and openness, but Daniels et al. (forthcoming) ... -
Openness, Central Wage Bargaining, and Inflation
(2005-08-13)This paper develops a model of an open economy containing both sectors in which wages are market-determined and sectors with wage-setting arrangements. A portion of the latter group of sectors coordinate their wages, ... -
Capital Regulation, Heterogeneous Monitoring Costs, and Aggregate Loan Quality
(2005-08-13)This paper develops a banking-sector framework with heterogeneous loan monitoring costs. Banks are exposed to the moral hazard behavior of borrowers and endogenously choose whether to monitor their loans to eliminate this ... -
Within-child Associations between Changes in Family Income and Changes in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems
(2005-08-13)Within-child associations between family income and child externalizing and internalizing problems were examined using longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,132). Variations ... -
A test of agglomeration using wage behavior.
(2006-10-13)The neoclassical economic model of wage behavior over time and place predicts that firms spread out and wages converge, given assumptions such as no transactions costs, homogenous products, and same access to resources ... -
Hispanic assimilation to American health insurance.
(2006-10-26)Policy makers, insurance companies, physicians, healthcare administrators, and especially patients have acknowledged the need for healthcare reform. Some economists speculate high healthcare costs arise from charging ... -
A shirking model of NBA players.
(2007-01-11)As guaranteed National Basketball Association (NBA) contract salary amounts continuously increase there is a strong possibility of shirking due to difficulty in modeling contracts based upon future performance. Based on a ... -
Privatization and the resistance to change: technological, political, and sociological issues.
(2007-03-07)Both Florida and Texas child welfare systems function heavily off of legislative mandates. In 1996, the Florida legislature mandated four pilot programs that privatized child welfare services through contracts with ... -
Teaching Business Ethics: A Faculty Seminar Model
(2007-12-20)Who is responsible for the increasing incidence of ethical misconduct in businesses? The short answer: the ones who committed the ethical misconduct are responsible. As these incidents receive more and more coverage ... -
Could sub-debts of banks be potential tools for supervision? Empirical study with data set 1999-2007.
(2008-06-11)Most previous research has discussed how spreads of sub-debts could be tools to signal the risks of banks. However, studies have focused on data preceding 1999, when the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) has not yet been ... -
Measurement of total factor productivity growth in countries with high rates of structural change.
(2008-06-11)In a neoclassical framework, high rates of economic growth can be sustained if the main source of this growth is improvements in technical efficiency, measured by Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG). This study argues ... -
The utility of the passing time and measurement of the purchasing power of currencies in the flexible-exchange-rate system.
(2008-11-17)In economics, it is not the quantity that matters the most; it is the amount of utility. The purchasing power of a currency is not merely the volume of goods the money can obtain, but the amount of utility it can command. ...