This paper tests for the presence of non-linear dependence in the black- market Polish zloty-dollar exchangeg rate. Using the GARCH-M model, we illustrate use of the Marquardt (1963) alternative to the Berndt, Hall and Hausman (1974) iterative nonlinear algorithm for estimation of such models,...

This paper presents an analysis of gender effects in intra-household allocation of resources among children over the life-cycle in India. We present a simple three-period model that considers two possible motives for differential allocation of resources: parental preferences (in favour of male...

Western advisors of Eastern reform favour outside, stock-market ownership and control of large privatized enterprise. However, Japanese firms and their Western transplants are dominated by employee stakeholders as implicit residual owners. Their success, and political contraints, suggest a...

We present a new model of employee involvement with incomplete contracts and uncertain monitoring. Distributional considerations limit productivity and generate excessive monitoring under employee control, so co-determination can increase both efficiency and labour's share of the enterprise...

In this paper, I examine the scope of Chadwick's principle of contract management. I show that Chadwick targeted his bidding scheme at a number of social evils he perceived to be attached to unregulated cpmpetition and not just at decreasing-cost natural monopoly. I also show that his scheme...

Technological progress in the economy has an impact on a monopolist's optimal choice of product quality by shifting either the demand or the cost curves. When quality is reduced in response to new technolgy we have a On the assumption that consumers with higher reservation prices for the good...

This paper demonstrates that the results recently presented by Shogren et al (1994) are insufficient to reject the endowment effect as a significant cause of the divergence between willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WPA) values. A more transparent means of testing for the...

Modern management accounting information systems trace cost to a greater level of detail than did their predecessors. Nonetheless, the basic ingredient of accounting information continues to be the measurable transaction, actual or budgeted, rather than the more subjective concepts of marginal...

This paper uses the new Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) at CES to investigate gross and net job flows for the U.S. economy. Much of the previous work on U.S. job flows has been based on analysis of the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), which is limited to...

Using 4 years of data from 37 American cities and 6 high technology groupings we present the first estimates of University R&D spillover effects on employment at this level of disaggregation, while controlling for prior innovations and state fixed effects. Wages and employments are strongly...