Recent research suggests that income redistribution preferences vary across identity groups. We employ statistical learning methods which emphasize pattern recognition, classification and regression trees (CARTTM) and random forests (RandomForestsTM), to uncover what these groups are. Using data...

This paper surveys the microeconomic literature of intellectual property design in order to assess assumptions regarding intellectual property protection in R&D-based endogenous growth models, and to suggest directions for that growth literature to extend. Growth models use largely inappropriate...

Recent research suggests that income redistribution preferences vary across identity groups. We employ a new pattern recognition technology to uncover what these groups are. Using data from the General Social Survey, we present a new stylized fact that preferences for governmental provision of...

Books reviewed: Richard E. Baldwin and Joseph F. Francois (eds) - Dynamic Issues in Applied Commercial Policy Analysis John Broome - Ethics out of Economics Cristiano Antonelli - The Microdynamics of Technological Change