This paper examines the effects of foreigndirect investment (FDI) inflows to a group of six Pacific Basin economies and a control group of 11 other developing countries.

Many developing country governmentfind it virtually impossible to satisfy their inter-temporal budget constraint with conventional tax revenu. Hence they rely on revenue from the inflation tax and they reduce their interest costs through financial repression. Both the theory and evidence...

Many newly emerging markets need to increase resources available for investment. The first section of this paper shows that government deficits reduce national saving and growth. Furthermore, greater reliance in inflationary finance, financial repression and foreign borrowing as ways for...

Sports leagues conduct new player entry drafts in which franchises select, in a pre-determined order, players to complement their existing rosters. We model the decision-making process of a single sports franchise during a player selection draft. The basic premise of our model is that a team...

Conjoint analysis is a statistical technique used to elicit partworth utilities for product attributes from consumers to aid in the evaluation of market potential for new products. The objective of the share-of-choice problem (a common approach to new product design) is to find the design that...

Concerns that the loss of habitat have greatly increased species extinction rates has led to calls for establishing biological reserves to preserve key habitat. In this paper, we study reserve site selection for terrestrial vertebrates in Oregon using data on species ranges and land values. We...

We develop a branch-and-price algorithm for constructing an optimal product line using partworth estimates from choice-based conjoint analysis. The algorithm determines the specific attribute levels for each multiattribute product in a set of products to maximize the resulting product line's...