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Market power, competition policy and developing economies: Divergent conditions within African and Caribbean economies
Smith-Hillman, A. Vindelyn - In: Journal of Economic Studies 34 (2007) May, pp. 120-135
Purpose – This paper aims to measure the influence of institutional capacity and population differences between Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean economies, on the efficacy of competition policy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses multiple regression analysis to evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970239
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Roscher’s Victorian views on financial development
Hudson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) September, pp. 187-208
Focuses on Roscher's generalities in the financial realm. Roscher postulated a secular decline in interest rates and an evolution of credit towards increasingly productive applications. Although Roscher's theories were plausible, questions whether he got his causes and effects right. If not, of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003277
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Profits of horizontally interrelated firms with dividend obligations
Temurshoev, Umed - In: Journal of Economic Studies 36 (2009) September, pp. 296-306
of cross-shareholding (CS) links among firms that is inherent to the profit formulations in existing literature. Design … there is no difference in the outcomes of all profit specifications, whereas there is a quantitative difference. Research … extends the existing profit formulations by including both income inflows and outflows of firms due to CS links. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005005731
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Market power, competition policy and developing economies
Vindelyn Smith‐Hillman, A. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 34 (2007) 2, pp. 120-135
Purpose – This paper aims to measure the influence of institutional capacity and population differences between Sub‐Saharan African and Caribbean economies, on the efficacy of competition policy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses multiple regression analysis to evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863139
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Profits of horizontally interrelated firms with dividend obligations
Temurshoev, Umed - In: Journal of Economic Studies 36 (2009) 3, pp. 296-306
of cross‐shareholding (CS) links among firms that is inherent to the profit formulations in existing literature. Design … there is no difference in the outcomes of all profit specifications, whereas there is a quantitative difference. Research … extends the existing profit formulations by including both income inflows and outflows of firms due to CS links. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863214
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Roscher’s Victorian views on financial development
Hudson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 3/4/5, pp. 187-208
Focuses on Roscher′s generalities in the financial realm. Roscher postulated a secular decline in interest rates and an evolution of credit towards increasingly productive applications. Although Roscher′s theories were plausible, questions whether he got his causes and effects right. If not,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863889
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Beyond competing theories of the hidden economy: Some lessons from Moscow
Williams, Colin C.; Round, John - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) May, pp. 171-185
Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate critically the validity of rival theorisations of the hidden economy that variously read this sphere as a leftover from a previous era, a by-product of a new emergent form of capitalism, a complement to formal employment or an alternative to the formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610882
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Some remarks on self-interest, the historical schools and the evolution of the theory of public goods
Pickhardt, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 32 (2005) September, pp. 275-293
Purpose – This paper is devoted to the question of what motivates man in his pursuit of economic activities. Particular attention is given to the notion that economic activities of individuals may not be motivated by their self-interest alone. Design/methodology/approach – Using literary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964057
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Keynes, Chicago and Friedman: A review essay
Smithin, John - In: Journal of Economic Studies 31 (2004) January, pp. 76-88
This paper is a review essay of Leeson, R. (Ed.), Keynes, Chicago and Friedman (2 volumes), Pickering and Chatto, London, 2003. These volumes contain a comprehensive collection of previously published papers, and also some interesting new materials, relating to the controversy about the accuracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964058
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The Younger German Historical School and the problem of unemployment
Frambach, Hans - In: Journal of Economic Studies 32 (2005) September, pp. 300-313
Purpose – To analyse some proposals of the Younger German Historical School as to how to reduce unemployment and to examine them with regard to their application to contemporary unemployment. The more general issue of this paper is: Can we learn from the Younger Historical School how to solve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964061