We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form specifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in...

We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form sepcifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in...

One of the most disputed subjects within the economic theory, with repercussion both on the economic and social practice and on the political one is the issue of consumption and consumer behaviour. As social practice and experience, the origin and core of consumption is connected to the...

Evolution of consumers' preferences has been recognized by many scholars as being key to understanding technological change. However, mainstream economics cannot account for the seemingly irrational behavior of consumers based on changes in taste – consumer theory lacks exibility and accuracy...

A szerző abból indul ki, hogy a Hámori Balázs által a szekták magyarázatára kifejlesztett modell generalizálható. Ugyanakkor kritizálja a tanulmányt azért, mert a potyautasok kizárására vonatkozó fejtegetések éppen arra nem adnak magyarázatot, amire azok eredetileg...

This paper deals with the Religious Market Theory. Concepts are presented, drawn of Economics, as, for example, religious commodity, supply and demand for goods and religious services, competition and monopoly in religious market and the degree of regulation in the religious market. We also...

A szerte a világban - Magyarországon is - mind jobban terjedő szekták az utóbbi időben nemcsak a szociológusok vagy teológusok kutatási tárgyai, de a közgazdászok figyelmét is magukra vonták. Első pillantásra ugyanis nehezen fér össze a racionálisan cselekvő homo oeconomicus...

The costs of transacting the myriad individual contracts needed to operate a complex productive enterprise are prohibitive. The firm provided the solution, by substituting hierarchy and command for perpetual negotiations. The legal system played its part in the development of firms by...