In this article I am primarily concerned with presenting Slavoj Žižek as a legal theorist because his diverse writings, which have often been relegated to other disciplines, position him as an important contributor to law and public discourse. I seek to illuminate how he mediates and...

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a...

We generalize the concept of K-convexity to an n-dimensional Euclidean space. The resulting concept of K-convexity is useful in addressing production and inventory problems where there are individual product setup costs and/or joint setup costs. We derive some basic properties of K-convex...

It has become commonplace to note that courts have struggled with the challenge of applying analog legal concepts to digital spaces, and nowhere is this truer than in the context of the First Amendment. Here, we focus on a very specific aspect of the Internet and social media revolution – the...

Binscatter is very popular in applied microeconomics. It provides a flexible, yet parsimonious way of visualizing and summarizing “big data” in regression settings, and it is often used for informal testing of substantive hypotheses such as linearity or monotonicity of the regression...

Although sometimes difficult to detect, governmental power abuses can have detrimental impacts. Property tax assessments provide an effective lens to examine this phenomenon because, given the complexity of calculating property tax assessments, it is difficult for citizens to know when local...

We introduce a return predictor related to the slope and curvature of the futures term structure: basis-momentum. Basis-momentum strongly outperforms benchmark characteristics in predicting commodity spot and term premiums in the time series and cross section. Exposure to basis-momentum is...

In 1975, M. M. Choban [5] introduced a new topology on the set of all closed subsets of a topological space, similar to the but weaker than it. In 1998, G. Dimov and D. Vakarelov [8] used a generalized version of this new topology, calling it . The present paper is devoted to a detailed study of...