This article aims to analyze the explanatory power of the constituent components of the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom over the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute's Global Entrepreneurship Index and its sub-indexes. We analyze a sample of 118 countries with...

This article aims to analyze the explanatory power of the constituent components of the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom over the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute's Global Entrepreneurship Index and its sub-indexes. We analyze a sample of 118 countries with...

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...

Future helicopters will require all-weather capability for stabilized flight through severe atmospheric turbulence. This requirement has brought into focus the effect of turbulence on handling qualities. Accordingly, there is renewed interest in modeling and simulating turbulence and predicting...

The study examines the implementation of managed competition in Florida as a legislated, decentralized, public-private partnership having the characteristics of a network. The policy subsystem model of Milward and Wamsley was used to examine the network, the network structure, the reasons and...

Reliability and risk assessment play an important role in product design, development and production. In mass production items, data is abundant and testing in product development and certification is usually thorough. In contrast, for nonparametric applications, product cost is high, there is...