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An empirical study of Florida nonprofit arts organizations.

Lu, Yu Hua. - Florida Atlantic University

This thesis contains an empirical study of nonprofit cultural organizations in the state of Florida. Transcendental and Cobb Douglas functions are compared for a sample of 76 organizations. The organizations produce under conditions of decreasing returns to scale and both labor and capital are...

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FDI in the Third World: The impact on growth and human development.

Krappen, Ute. - Florida Atlantic University

This thesis theoretically and empirically analyzes the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Third World countries. The competing theories of the impact of FDI on developing countries are examined. The contradictory results of former econometric tests and empirical surveys measuring the impact...

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Impacts of federal deficits on the real GNP: The AMRC model.

Uysal, Ali Enis. - Florida Atlantic University

The economy is a system of interrelated variables which must be studied as a whole. Lack of understanding of the interrelationship between economic agents may result in misleading information. Government transactions are the only controllable input to the system. It is essential, therefore, to...

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A dynamic model of aggregate money demand in a European Monetary Union.

Rubin, Jonathan Laurence. - Florida Atlantic University

movement towards European Monetary Union as envisaged by the Maastricht treaty. The theoretical basis of the estimation of … movement towards European Monetary Union as envisaged by the Maastricht treaty. The theoretical basis of the estimation of …

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Essential of Cournot oligopoly model.

Mahzabeen, Ishrat. - Florida Atlantic University

This thesis examines as well as compares four essential issues of the Cournot oligopoly model--existence, uniqueness, and stability of the equilibrium solution, and the competitive property of the model. A Cournot equilibrium solution exists for the market when the marginal revenue of each firm...

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Product cycle theory and the television industry of the United States.

Chen, Wei. - Florida Atlantic University

increase understanding of trade theory and introduce dynamics into trade. One of the model's major premises is that a country … the industry enters into a new phase. This approach has been accepted as an established theory though it still remains … cited as an evidence to support the product cycle theory. The whole life of monochrome television in the United States was …

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Health care expenditures in the United States and five industrialized economies: A pooled time-series cross-section model.

Shah, Sandhya K. - Florida Atlantic University

This thesis empirically analyzes the determinants of national health care expenditures in the United States and five other industrialized economies. A reduced-form model for national health care expenditures, based upon a partial-adjustment mechanism, is specified as a function of supply and...

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A partial behavioral model for macroeconomic expansion.

Knickerbocker, H. E. - Florida Atlantic University

model, as well as general agreement with a large body of existent theory. … model, as well as general agreement with a large body of existent theory. …

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On the interaction between the investment and financing decision: An extension and empirical test of the Williamson specificity hypothesis.

Cushing, Woodrow Wilson - Florida Atlantic University

This dissertation has a twofold objective: to extend the Williamson asset specificity hypothesis and to empirically test both the asset specificity hypothesis and the extension. The Williamson asset specificity hypothesis asserts that the financial leverage used by firms is a function of the...

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SRAFFA AND THE CIRCUIT OF PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL

MCLEOD, WILLIAM DENNETT

In this dissertation I establish the common Physiocratic heritage shared by Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa. For Marx, this heritage finds expression in his second volume of Capital, Chapter Two, "The Circuit of Productive Capital", and for Sraffa, in his work, Production of Commodities by Means of...

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