The Positive Economics of Labor Market Rigidities and Investor Protection [PDF]
This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces.
Carsten-Patrick Meier, Rainer Fehn
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A POSITIVE ROLE FOR GRADUATE AGRIBUSINESS PROGRAMS IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS [PDF]
Agribusiness graduate students should do problem-solving and take business courses to understand the environment in which they will practice their theory.
Robbins, Lynn W.
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Anarchism and Austrian economics [PDF]
In the 2011 Franz Cuhel Memorial Lecture, I argue that the study of endogenous rule formation in economic life (what I term the positive political economy of anarchism) should be studied in-depth and that the economic analysis of the Austrian school of ...
Boettke, Peter
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Effect of Agricultural Activity on River Water Quality: A Case Study for the Lower Colorado River Basin [PDF]
This case study investigates the effect of a change in cropping pattern involving expanded acres of crops for biofuel feedstock, on the discharge of nutrients to rivers.
Adusumilli, Naveen C. +4 more
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The Effects of Sex-Sorted Semen on Southern Dairy Farms [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of sex-sorted semen adoption on dairy farm level economics. Representative dairies are used to simulate the financial impacts of moving to this new technology.
Anderson, David P. +4 more
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(WP 2018-01) Ethics \u3cem\u3eand\u3c/em\u3e Economics: A Complex Systems Approach [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter examines the nature of ethics and economics as a single subject of investigation, and uses a complex systems approach to characterize the nature of that subject.
Davis, John B.
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Economics in Relation to Sociology: Dualisms and Vilfredo Pareto's Pluralistic Methodology [PDF]
Many economists remember the masters of Lausanne for their important contributions to general equilibrium and welfare economics, but Leon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto both pursued much broader social research agendas.
Michael McLure
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How land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand [PDF]
Using an economy-wide conceptual framework, the author analyzes how land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand. He uses contemporary techniques, such as error correction and co-integration, to deal with such problems ...
Byamugisha, Frank F.K.
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Stadium Architecture and Regional Economic Development: International Experience and the Plans of Durban [PDF]
For the FIFA World Cup 2010, South Africa plans to invest heavily. The positive economic effects that the country is hoping for stand in contrast to almost all statistical ex-post studies.
Florian Schwarthoff, Wolfgang Maennig
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Constitutions as Equilibria: A Game-theoretic Approach to Positive Constitutional Economics [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to derive conditions under which either dictatorship or the rule of law are the equilibria of a post-constitutional game. It thus contributes to positive constitutional economics, i.e., the research program that is interested in ...
Kirstein, Roland, Voigt, Stefan
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