MAny aspects of the east european revolution are controversial, but on one point everyone agrees: it caught the world by surprise. even local dissedents were stunned by the sudden turn of events. We will never know how ...
Kuran, Timur(International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1986-05)
Since the late 1940s, and especially since the mid-1960s, a wealth of pamphlets, articles, and books have appeared that constitute the corpus of what is now known as "Islamic economics." This literature, whose exponents ...
Leijonhufvud, A.; Roy, Weintraub,(History of Political Economy, 1974)
I fully agree with E. R. Weintraub on the two main points: (i) Wells
is correct in substance in rejecting those interpretations of the General
Theory that attribute to it a “labor demand” function identical to the
marginal ...
Argues that R. J. Herrnstein's (see record 1990-16389-001) article on
rational choice theory misrepresents the current state of free-operant
choice (FOC) in animals. More precise versions of Herrnstein's dynamic
mechanism ...
reviews recently developed simulation-based minimum chi-square estimators for structural models. Particular attention is paid to selection of the auxiliary model that defines the GMM-type criterion used in the minimum ...
Wallace, William H.; Naylor, Thomas; Sasser, W. Earl(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1968)
The model presented in this paper is a system of recursive linear regression equations, the parameters of which are estimated from monthly series of data covering the period, January, 1951, through December, 1962.
Brander, James A.; Lewis, Tracy(The American Economic Review, 1986)
We argue that product markets and financial markets have important linkages. Assuming on oligopoly in which financial and output decisions follow in sequence, we show that limited liability may commit a leveraged firm to ...
WHEN A COLLEGE GRADUATE decides to pursue a higher degree at a particular institution, one of the first challenges she faces is finding an apartment. Most institutions have on-campus housing available that is often subsidized ...
Lewis, Tracy; Perry, Martin K.; Sappington, David E. M.(1989)
This article will examine the implications of enforcing specific performance for attempted breach of contract in a model of renegotiation. It will be shown that after the supplier receives relevant private information, ...