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Nachbar, John H. - EconWPA - 1996

Giffen goods have long been a minor embarrassment to courses in microeconomic theory. The standard approach has been to dismiss Giffen goods as a theoretical curiosity without empirical content. This note points out that the underlying theory is itself seriously flawed.

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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

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LA MEDICIÓN DE LA SATISFACCIÓN EN LA ENSEÑANZA UNIVERSITARIA: EL EJEMPLO DE LA UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR

Alves, Helena; Raposo, Mário - EconWPA - 2005

Dada la importancia que la satisfacción y retención de los alumnos está adquiriendo últimamente para la supervivencia de las instituciones de enseñanza universitaria, varios investigadores han intentado encontrar formas fiables de medir esa satisfacción. Este artículo presenta una...

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MARKETING HIGHER EDUCATION: STUDENTS’ SERVICE EXPECTATIONS

Raposo, Mario; Alves, Helena - EconWPA - 2005

Facing a growing competitive environment, higher education institutions have increased dramatically the competition for recruiting and retaining students providing a high quality service as a solution to compete. Frequently, researchers who have studied the service quality and client...

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The Games and Information Reader, Preface

Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

I am putting together a collection of clippings, journal articles, and original material to accompany my game theory book. It is due at the publisher's September 1, 1999. This is the preface, in which I explain my choice of items to include.

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The Games and Information Reader, Table of Contents

Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

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Staff Growth in International Organizations: A Principal-Agent Problem? An Empirical Analysis

Vaubel, Roland; Dreher, Axel; Soylu, Ugurlu - EconWPA - 2003

The analysis covers 27 international organizations in the years 1950- 2001. From the first to the last year, staff increased at a compound average rate of 3.2 percent per annum. Since the number of member states rose by only 2.5 percent, the elasticity of staff to member states is larger than...

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Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights

Hein, Wolfgang; Kohlmorgen, Lars - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development. This leads to an integration of the “diseases of...

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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...

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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …

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