A cooperative TU game is said to posses a large core as defined by Sharkey [1982] if for every acceptable vector there is a smaller core vector in the game. This paper is devoted to characterization(s) of largeness of the core of a subclass of games known as k-convex games (containing the convex...

This paper develops a structural empirical model of contraception and participation choice under imperfect control of fertility and learning in order to estimate the effect of the first born child on female work. I exploit family planning failures as sources of variation using the 1995 US...

Статья акцентирует внимание на одной из самых насущных проблем, стоящих перед системой образования России, сопряженной с формированием культурных идеалов,...

We propose and compare two approaches for regression analysis of multilevel binary data when clusters are not necessarily nested: a GEE method that relies on a working independence assumption coupled with a three-step method for obtaining empirical standard errors; and a likelihood-based method...

In this paper we will study from an axiomatic point of view the production functions. Also we will define the main indicators of a production function, extending the classical definitions to n inputs and introducing other new. We will modify the notion of global average productivity and replace...

This paper analyzes the contributions of some of the pre-scholastic and scholastic writers on the doctrine of the “just price”. According to their perspective it is difficult to establish an objective method for discovering the “just price” of goods on the market. On the contrary, they...