This article presents estimates of consumer planning horizons for countries at different levels of economic development. Within an intertemporal optimization framework a direct relationship is observed between the length of consumers' planning horizons and the level of economic development. In...

This article describes how “START-UP NY” is a state-funded economic development program that encourages businesses to locate to several of its college campuses in exchange for a 0% tax rate for business and their employees. While the program has received much coverage in the popular press,...

Efficiency measurement has been one of the most extensively explored areas of health services research over the past two decades. Despite this attention, few studies have examined whether a provider’s efficiency varies on a monthly, quarterly or other, sub-annual basis. This paper presents an...