the nature of our political system and the plight of central cities. Because local and state politicians are elected for …

The literature on state capacity has suggested that state-industry relations are critical in understanding the … input in the production process. The paper reports three case studies that examine state-industry relations in Austria … analysis reveals an underdeveloped role for the state in industrial transformation and an absence of close state …

past (memory) observations to construct an internal state representation, which is treatedas an abstraction of the … state construction. The project introduces a new method that applies Information Theory and decision tree technique to … derive a tree structure, which represents the state and the policy. The relevance, of a candidate feature, is assessed by the …

The state,writes Douglass North, trades a group of services, which we shall callprotection and justice, for revenue … thereforehave an incentive to hide revenues from the state, while differing in their ability todo so. Thus, the state will typically …

above. Within case comparison is used to construct causal narratives of industry change at the state level. Panel and pooled … policies are broadly significant for the tobacco industry, identified state policies exhibit few consistent effects for hog …

Dynamic models, also termed state space models, comprise an extremely rich model class for time series analysis. This … dissertation focuses on building state space models for a variety of contexts and computationally efficient methods for Bayesian … inference for simultaneous estimation of latent states and unknown fixed parameters. Chapter 1 introduces state space models …

. Trade associations and firms emerged as the central actors driving industry development, with the state playing an … increasingly supporting role. This institutional arrangement represents a departure from the Indian state’s traditional approach to … development and the role of the state in other successful developmental models. A key reason why industry, rather than the state …

, the factors that led to the crisis in Rhode Island will be unveiled, and possible solutions to the state-specific problem …

changing role of the state in the economy and society, focusing specifically on the problem of contract enforcement among small … owners and/or managers of forty-five firms in 2001 and 2002.When firms perceive state institutions as unable to guarantee the … enforcement of contracts and property rights, they rely on alternative (non-state) ways of enforcing their agreements. My research …