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How many dimensions adequately characterize voting on U.S. trade policy? How are these dimensions to be interpreted? This paper seeks those answers in the context of voting on the landmark 1988 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act. The paper takes steps beyond the existing literature. First,...
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We study the impact of the system dimension on commonly used model selection criteria (AIC,BIC, HQ) and LR based general to specific testing strategies for lag length estimation in VAR's. We show that AIC's well known overparameterization feature becomes quickly irrelevant as we move away from...
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I initiate the discussion with a few general remarks on industrial clusters and commodity chains. I describe the main features of the shoe industry in the Philippines. The core of the industry is located in Marikina City in the northeast of the Manila Metropolitan Area. I provide a detailed...
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It is well-known in evolutionary game theory that population clustering in Prisoner Dilemma games allows some … cooperative strategies to invade populations of stable defecting strategies. We adapt this idea of population clustering to a two … clustering to bargaining environments sustains cooperative play analogous to the situation in finitely repeated PD games. …
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This paper presents a procedure for clustering analysis that combines Kohone’s Self organizing Feature Map (SOFM) and … procedure outperformed others clustering techniques in the job of identifying consistent groups of countries from the economic …
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407630
The aim of this paper is to trace a map of Italian local social capital endowments. It focuses on the “structural” dimension of the concept, as identified with social networks. The analysis is based on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred indicators of five main...
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This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407721