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Property Crime and Law Enforcement in Italy. A Regional Panel Analysis 1980-95
Travaglini, Guido - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper a Cobb-Douglas utility function is introduced and solved for a dynamic equation of property crime supply … differ among the two. When appropriately modeled and instrumented, in fact, property crime is found to react to police and … to those related to local incomes, which still reflect for the South a tendency of crime to substitute for legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407878
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Managed Care and the Adoption of Hospital Technology: The Case of Cardiac Catheterization
Bokhari, Farasat A.S. - EconWPA - 2001
The diffusion of health care technology is influenced by both the total market share of managed care organizations as well as the level of competition among them. This paper differentiates between HMO penetration and competition and examines their relationship to the adoption of cardiac...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007503
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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not
Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005
The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412508
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Commons, anti-commons, corruption and 'maffia' behavior
Canavese, Alfredo - EconWPA - 2004
The particular point that will be stressed in this paper is that benefits derived from corrupt behaviour depend on institutions devised to discourage it. The analytical framework used to explore the symmetric tragedies of the commons and the anticommons outlined by James Buchaman and Yong J....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412527
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Aggregate investment dynamics when firms face fixed investment cost and capital market imperfections
Bayer, Christian - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyzes a model of investment with fixed investment costs and capital market imperfections. In this model finance influences the level of capital firms hold, as well as the frequency at which they invest. In consequence investment reacts nonlinearly with respect to shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076705
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Convergence to Purchasing Power Parity at the Commencement of the Euro
Lopez, Claude; Papell, David H. - EconWPA - 2003
We investigate convergence towards Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) within the Euro Zone and between the Euro Zone and its main partners using panel data methods that incorporate serial and contemporaneous correlation. We find strong rejections of the unit root hypothesis, and therefore evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076738
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Monetary Transmission in the Euro Area: A Factor Model Approach
Sala, Luca - EconWPA - 2002
This paper studies the transmission of common monetary shocks across European countries by using a dynamic factor model (Forni-Reichlin (1998)). This technique allows to extract the common European monetary shock and to compute country-specific responses. Our identification employs rotations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076808
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Visualization of Chaos for Finance Majors
LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004
Efforts to simulate turbulence in the financial markets include experiments with the logistic equation: x(t)=kappa x(t-1)[1-x(t-1)], with 0 x(t)1 and 0 = kappa 4. Visual investigation of the logistic equation show the various stability and instability regimes for the various value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077029
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Current Account Reversals In Selected Transition Countries
Aristovnik, Aleksander - EconWPA - 2005
The paper investigates sharp reductions seen in current account deficits in selected transition countries in the 1992-2003 period. The analysis focuses on three important aspects of these current account reversals: a) to examine those factors that might have triggered the reversals and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124954
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Time allocation within the family: welfare implications of life in a couple
Couprie, Helene - EconWPA - 2003
family. We estimate, on the British Household Panel Survey, a collective model of demand for leisure generalized to the … is identified by woman's change of family status: from single-living to couple or from couple to single-living. Welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125796