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David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he...
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David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905550
Design structure matrix (DSM) is a straightforward and flexible modeling technique that can be used for designing, developing, and managing complex systems. DSM offers network modeling tools that represent the elements of a system and their interactions, thereby highlighting the system’s...
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Public Regulation studies the formation of institutions and government policies that regulate industry, offering new data, new contexts, and new tools for analyzing the structure and performance of regulatory activity. It addresses both how these institutions and policies came into being and how...
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Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and energy wealth. When prices skyrocket, governments want a larger share of revenues, sometimes to the...
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what that theory reveals about business cycles, growth, and labor economics. In Exploring General Equilibrium, Black … cycles and growth without using sticky prices, irrationality, economies of scale, or imperfect competition. It can explain …
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Robert Solow received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1987, and his contributions to growth theory, productivity, and … Dixit offer useful surveys of the growth literature. Hahn reflects on specific problems in standard growth models, while …
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decades. Interpreted within the framework of the neoclassical theory of economic growth, this experience provides essential … guidelines for future policy formation. Volume 2: Energy, the Environment, and Economic Growth presents a new econometric general … equilibrium model of the United States that captures the dynamic mechanisms underlying growth trends and responses to energy and …
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What political and economic factors stimulate growth and make an economy expand? These original contributions by some … technological variables that encourage or impede economic growth. Topics range from economic reform and price flexibility to the …, economists have seen important new developments linking growth and business cycles to government policy. These contributions …
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developing countries. This book is the first to study the significant-growth in foreign direct investment by such countries and …
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