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Human Ecology and Public Policy: Overcoming the Hegemony of Economics [PDF]
, 2002 The thinking of those with the power to formulate and implement public policy is now almost totally dominated by the so-called science of economics.
Adams Richard Newbold +6 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We present an adjusted bid price mechanism that incorporates economic multiplier effects in public food procurement decision making. Under Input–Output model assumptions, the algorithm estimates enhanced tax revenues to state governments through multiplier effects associated with in‐state supplier purchasing.
Todd M. Schmit, Xiaoyan Liu
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Public Debt and Economic Geography [PDF]
International Regional Science Review, 2012 This article studies the consequences of debt policies on the spatial distribution of output in a two-country model. It departs from the usual setup of local public finance by relaxing the assumption of balanced budget. Further, to single out the pure effect of debt, the article eliminates effects coming from tax and expenditure policies by assuming ...
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On the public economics of annuities with differential mortality [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2010 Economics Working Paper Series, 10 ...
Bommier, Antoine +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper aims to describe the evolution of firm and industry strategies and to analyze detailed transaction data on the structure of the international grain trading industry. Specifically, data are developed from vessel nominations, and these were used to derive measures of concentration and determine how these change across selected ...
William W. Wilson +2 more
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Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy: A Survey [PDF]
Public choice economists began studying the economics of anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of research on anarchy has burgeoned. This article surveys the important public choice contributions to the economics of anarchy.
Powell, Benjamin, Stringham, Edward P.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev +3 more
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Testing Behavioral Public Economics Theories in the Laboratory [PDF]
"Behavioral economics", or the application of methods and evidence from other social sciences to economics, has increased greatly in significance in the last two decades.
James Alm
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Labor shortages and farmer adaptation strategies
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Labor shortages are a growing challenge for U.S. agricultural producers, but little is known about farmers' adaptation strategies. We estimate the statistical relationship between farm labor shortages and adaptation strategies among California farmers.
Myat Thida Win +2 more
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Public Economics, Public Projects, and their Funding
Asian Development Review, 1997 This paper illustrates the contribution of public economics to the analysis of public projects. The illustrations pertain to peak-load pricing (electricity) and to second-best pricing under a budget constraint (subways), also taking into account the pricing of substitutes (rail versus canals, fixed link versus air or ferries).
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