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Dynamic Dumping
Berck, Peter; Perloff, Jeffrey M - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1988
A low-cost foreign firm lowers its initially high price--dumping if necessary--until it drives the higher cost domestic firms out of business,whereupon it raises its price. At no time, however, does the foreign firm predate (price below its marginal cost). Tariffs, quotas, and other policies...
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Bayesian Time Series and DSGE Models, from <i>Methods for Applied Macroeconomic Research</i>
Canova, Fabio - Princeton University Press
The last twenty years have witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools …
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Weintraub on the evolution of mathematical economics: a review essay
Jr, J. Barkley Rosser - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 25 (2003) 4, pp. 575-589
This essay discusses the implications for the evolution of mathematical economics of the ideas presented in E. Roy … Weintraub's How Economics Became a Mathematical Science . A central issue in the discussion is the nature of formalism and … axiomatization in mathematical economics, how that has evolved in mathematics, and how that evolution has influenced developments in …
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DSGE Models, Solutions, and Approximations, from <i>Methods for Applied Macroeconomic Research</i>
Canova, Fabio - Princeton University Press
The last twenty years have witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools …
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Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies
Hansen, Lars Peter; Sargent, Thomas J. - Princeton University Press
A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive …
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Is "mathematical science" an oxymoron when used to describe economics?
Davidson, Paul - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 25 (2003) 4, pp. 527-545
This paper interprets Weintraub's book, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science , to suggest why Keynes's General … meant by "rigor" and "proof" in mathematical analysis? Mathematicians' and economists' views about these concepts keep …'s analysis shows that the mathematical scientist emperor of mainstream economics is without clothes. …
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Testing Invariance in Risk Taking: A Comparison Between Anglophone and Francophone Groups
Blais, Ann-Renée; Weber, Elke U. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006
This article investigates the measurement invariance of 3 related constructs across 2 groups sampled from Anglophone and Francophone adult populations. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses explored the factor structures of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) Scale (Weber, Blais, &...
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When adolescents receive sexual messages on the internet: explaining experiences of risk and harm
Livingstone, Sonia; Görzig, Anke - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This article reports new findings on the incidence of risk and the associated experience of harm reported by children and adolescents aged 11–16, regarding receipt of sexual messages on the internet (known popularly as sexting). Findings showed that the main predictors of the risk of seeing or...
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PROMISE KEEPING, RELATIONAL CLOSENESS, AND IDENTIFIABILITY: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION IN CHINA
Cadsby, C. Bram; Du, Ninghua; Song, Fei; Yao, Lan - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2014
We experimentally investigate a new variant of the trust/investment game that captures some key features of internet peer-to-peer (P2P) lending: the borrower specifies the amount of money required and makes a contingent promise about the value of the generally higher repayment prior to the...
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Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings for First and Second Graders.
Agodini, Roberto; Harris, Barbara; Thomas, Melissa; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010
This report, the second from a large-scale study for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences of four early math programs, shows that the curriculum used by the study schools mattered. The study examined (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Investigations),...
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