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DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND DIFFERENTIAL PRODUCTION STRUCTURE IN A HARRIS-TODARO ECONOMY
Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
This paper incorporates informal sector and efficiency wage relation in a Harris-Todaro econmy under differential production structure. The simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage relation. Two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408272
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"Basic Principles of Sustainable Development"
Harris, Jonathan M. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555984
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IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN A MOBILE CAPITAL MODEL
Bandopadhyay, Titas - EconWPA - 2005
This paper incorporates informal sector and efficiency wage relation in a mobile capital H-T(1970) model. The simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage relation. Two different versions have been considered in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556721
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ON-THE-JOB SEARCH, URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES-A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS
Bandopadhyay, Titas - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to examine the Fields (1989) proposition1 in a multi sector general equilibrium model with perfect and imperfect capital mobility2. The effects of different fiscal policies on the equilibrium rate of urban unemployment are also examined here3. The main findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556734
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Terrorism Prevention: A General Model
Dietrich, Franz - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, I present and discuss a method for modelling an important trade-off faced by terrorism prevention policies: the trade-off between, on the one hand, trying to reduce people's inclination towards terrorism, and, on the other hand, trying to protect society against existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118920
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The Changing Concept of Financial Risk
LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004
financial risk based on asset classes only is ready for a epistemological change. Currently, the definition of financial risk … suffers from three major deficiencies: (1) financial risk is insufficiently measured by the conventional second - order … moments; (2) financial risk is assumed to be stable and all distribution moments are assumed to be time-invariant; and (3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077030
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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.
Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005
Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124942
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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events
Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004
The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124993
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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?
Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005
Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125490
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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries?
Neumayer, Eric; Spess, Laura - EconWPA - 2004
Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to- state dispute settlement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125530