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Adaptive Agent Modeling in a Policy Context
Gulden, Timothy R - 2004
This dissertation examines the utility of adaptive agent modeling (also referred to as agent-based modeling or individual based modeling) as a tool in public policy research. It uses the adaptive agent technique to produce useful results in three diverse areas. It demonstrates that the adaptive...
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Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Devin N.; Engel, Eduardo … - 2004
Microeconomic flexibility, by facilitating the process of creative-destruction, is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies. The main reason for why this process is not infinitely fast is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, others institutional. Chief...
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Essays on the Theory of Productive Government Activity and Economic Growth
Kühnel, Johanna - 2010
government activity for the economic performance of a country’s economy. Chapter 2 gives a comprehensive survey of the recent … theoretical literature on the link between productive government expenditure and long-run economic growth. Based on the seminal … directly compared. In this framework the services derived from productive government activity directly enter the production …
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Beyond the Invisible: The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Formalization on Small Businesses in Colombia
Fandl, Kevin J. - 2010
Trade liberalization in Latin America has substantially altered business opportunities andeconomic development in the region. As barriers to competing inputs have come down andforeign investment in the region has gone up, small, domestic firms have struggled to stayafloat. Many small businesses...
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CORRUPTION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
BAYAR, Yilmaz; ALAKBAROV, Naib - 2016
This study investigates the interaction between corruption and foreign direct investment inflows in 23 emerging market economies during the period 2002-2014 by employing Westerlund-Durbin-Hausman (2008) cointegration test. We found that control of corruption and rule of law had no statistically...
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Strategic Interactions of Monetary Policymakers and Wage/Price Bargainers: A Review with Implications for the European Common-Currency Area
Franzese, Robert J. - 2001
This paper reviews recent work on macroeconomic management with varying organization of wage/price bargaining and degrees of credible monetary conservatism. The emerging literature synthesizes and extends theory and empirics on central bank independence (CBI) and coordinated wage/price...
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The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program: An evaluation and learning framework
Hart, Stuart L. - 1983
The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program(FPUP) was established in 1978 with the belief that getting photovoltaic cells into the market was a “bootstrap problem” - one of eliminating market uncertainties through federal procurements to enable investments in improved production processes....
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A discounting framework for regulatory impact analysis
Staiger, Robert W.; Richardson, Barbara C. - 1985
This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate the systematic comparison of alternative discounting procedures for the costs and benefits of industrial regulatory activity. A discounting framework developed by Bradford is adapted for use in the context of industry regulation. Within...
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The need for some innovative concepts of innovation: An examination of research on the diffusion of innovations
Warner, Kenneth E. - 1974
This paper examines research on the diffusion of innovation, the final stage in the process of technological change. The focus rests primarily on two traditions in diffusion research: that of economists and that of sociologists. Diffusion researchers in these and related disciplines have made...
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System Uncertainty, Risk Propensity, and International Conflict among the Great Powers
Huth, Paul; Bennett, D.; Gelpi, Christopher - 1992
The authors investigate the relationship between system structure and the initiation of militarized disputes among Great Powers. The central hypotheses concern the interaction between system uncertainty and the risk propensity of national decision makers. The authors employ a research design...
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