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The Effects Of Government Policies On (Un)Employment In A Search Model, Mingwei Yuan
The Effects Of Government Policies On (Un)Employment In A Search Model, Mingwei Yuan
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This thesis studies the effects of fiscal and labour market policies on the labour market activities. The study is based on a general equilibrium framework. The models considered in this thesis are built on the recent advances of growth models which incorporate labour market search/match activities. This study extends the previous models to address several important empirical issues.;In Chapter 1, an empirical study using multivariate vector autoregression (VAR) models shows that, in postwar U.S., employment and hours worked per worker respond differently to a temporary shock in government consumption. The shock raises hours worked per worker and reduces employment. The …
The Importance Of Beliefs In Monetary And Financial Settings, Toni R. Gravelle
The Importance Of Beliefs In Monetary And Financial Settings, Toni R. Gravelle
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This thesis investigates the effects of beliefs in both a monetary and a financial setting. Specifically, the thesis studies the potential effects that price level fluctuations have on societal beliefs, the general medium of exchange, and economic welfare. In a finance setting, this thesis also studies how fluctuations in beliefs can explain the observed "hot issues" market phenomena in the initial public offering (IPO) equity market. The "hot issues" market phenomena refers to recurring periods in which the volume of IPOs and the magnitude of their first day returns are observed to be systematically larger than average.;Chapter 2 is a …
"Such Peple As Be Not Letterd In Scripture": Popular Devotion And The Legend Of St Katherine Of Alexandria In Late Medieval England, Jacqueline Jenkins
"Such Peple As Be Not Letterd In Scripture": Popular Devotion And The Legend Of St Katherine Of Alexandria In Late Medieval England, Jacqueline Jenkins
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This dissertation examines four different versions of the Legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria in Middle English in the context of laywomen's reading patterns in the late Middle Ages. The questions considered in the discussions of the individual texts or manuscript collections include: why was the legend of St. Katherine so influential and important in the Middle Ages, how does her cult accommodate the changing patterns of lay spirituality in the fifteenth century, and what function did the hagiographic literature and the other devotional texts with which they circulated, fulfill in the lives of the laywomen readers with whom they …
Money Beliefs And Quality Of Life, Or, What Is Money For, If It Doesn't Buy Happiness?, Rosalind Maureen Callard
Money Beliefs And Quality Of Life, Or, What Is Money For, If It Doesn't Buy Happiness?, Rosalind Maureen Callard
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Can money buy happiness? Few psychological studies have systematically attempted to answer this question, although several have shown a small (.11 to.19) but significant correlation between income and quality of life. It is argued in this study that the relationship between income and quality of life is complex. Aspects of money that might affect quality of life were identified as money beliefs, money goals, appraisals of finances, financial situation and money behaviours. The study then focused on the money beliefs aspect. Money beliefs were identified and described using a qualitative research paradigm. A scale of money beliefs (the Money Beliefs …
Orthodoxy And Enlightenment: George Campbell (1719-1796) And The Aberdeen Enlightenment, Jeffrey Mark Suderman
Orthodoxy And Enlightenment: George Campbell (1719-1796) And The Aberdeen Enlightenment, Jeffrey Mark Suderman
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George Campbell (1719-1796) is now recognized as one of the leading eighteenth-century philosophers of rhetoric, but is otherwise little known. In his own time, however, he was famous for his religious and apologetic writings, and for his leadership within the Church of Scotland. Recent scholars have attempted to examine his place within the histories of both rhetorical theory and philosophy. But they have made little effort to understand his religious thought, and have consequently failed to understand either his larger intentions or the place therein of The Philosophy of Rhetoric itself.;This study seeks to redress this imbalance by exploring the …
Campaign Strategy And The Uses Of Televised Political Advertising In Michigan And Ontario, Leslie R. Coventry
Campaign Strategy And The Uses Of Televised Political Advertising In Michigan And Ontario, Leslie R. Coventry
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This study examines the uses of televised political advertisements in campaign strategies in the United States and Canada. Two case studies--the Michigan gubernatorial election of 1994 and the Ontario provincial general election of 1995--serve as a basis for comparing the uses of televised political advertising in both countries.;Political strategists in Michigan and Ontario follow "meta-advertising strategies"--that is, television advertising which translates issues into symbols in order to build images. Issues are used in television advertising for five distinct purposes: (1) assigning blame (issue-blaming); (2) making accusations (issue-accusing); (3) claiming credit (issue-crediting); (4) mentioning the salience of an issue (issue-mentioning); (5) …
Impact On Asia Of China's Trade, Foreign Investment, And Factor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach, Winnie Lam
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This thesis assesses the effects of China's trade, foreign investment, and factor market reforms on China and on its neighbouring Asian countries using a static, multi-country computational general equilibrium model. Existing literature concentrates on the analysis of the piecemeal abolition of distortions in the Chinese economy (Zhuang (1992)). One notable feature of this study is that special emphasis is placed on the interactive effects among individual reforms in China. This issue is particularly important for Chinese policy makers as they embark on the experimentation with major economic reforms. The results indicate that trade reform would not be nearly as successful …
Grassroots Participation In Canadian Political Parties: An Examination Of Leadership Selection, Candidate Nomination, Policy Development And Election Campaigning, William Paul Cross
Grassroots Participation In Canadian Political Parties: An Examination Of Leadership Selection, Candidate Nomination, Policy Development And Election Campaigning, William Paul Cross
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This thesis is about grassroots participation in Canadian political parties.;The thesis identifies and examines tensions between two views of public decision-making. Traditionally, Canadian politics have been described as brokerage and consociational. Increasingly, however, voters are rejecting these elite-dominated processes and demanding increased opportunity for direct, effective participation. Some favoured methods of increased participation, however, lack the collective processes traditionally believed necessary to build consensus among Canada's strong regional and linguistic cleavages. This thesis identifies the essential characteristics of these two views, providing a framework for assessing the current practices of political parties and popular reform proposals.;The thesis identifies parties as …
Explaining Adoption Patterns Of Process Standards, Philip Paul Gunby
Explaining Adoption Patterns Of Process Standards, Philip Paul Gunby
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This thesis investigates the adoption of process standards and consists of an introduction, a literature review, two theoretical chapters, a case study, and a conclusion.;The first theoretical chapter presents a model which examines equilibrium adoption patterns. The model incorporates heterogeneous agents who repeatedly choose which process standard to adopt. The agents' decisions are affected by economic processes within as well as outside, the market. In contrast to the usual results of the literature on competing standards, inefficient equilibria are far less prevalent in this model. Interestingly, small changes in parameter values can have a large impact on the characteristics of …
Baptists And Business: Central Canadian Baptists And The Secularization Of The Businessman At Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848-1921, Paul Robert Wilson
Baptists And Business: Central Canadian Baptists And The Secularization Of The Businessman At Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848-1921, Paul Robert Wilson
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The challenges to the faith of the Baptist businessman exerted by the arrival of a business-dominated culture in the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been largely ignored by Canadian historians. As the Protestant religious minority with the strongest doctrinal emphasis on separation from the world through the application of a strict moral code, Baptists provide the historian with an excellent case study for analysis of the sectarian Protestant response to social and cultural change. One might expect that the "otherworldly" perspective held by Baptists afforded considerable resistence to the secularizing effects of the materialistic social …
Moral Philosophy And The Intellectual World Of Justices: The United States Supreme Court, 1860-1910, Mark Warren Bailey
Moral Philosophy And The Intellectual World Of Justices: The United States Supreme Court, 1860-1910, Mark Warren Bailey
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The United States Supreme Court during the period between 1860 and 1910 has been portrayed as the source of a laissez-faire style of constitutional interpretation under which the nation and the Court largely abdicated their obligation to protect society's common interests from the ideologically conservative influences of new and powerful economic interests.;Recent trends in legal/intellectual history have moderated this critical view and have begun to rehabilitate the Supreme Court's image by placing it in a more accurately drawn intellectual context. This approach reasserts the role of ideas in shaping the law and reduces that of economic determinism. This thesis extends …
Canada's Multinationals: A Study In Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Stephen Paul Meyer
Canada's Multinationals: A Study In Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Stephen Paul Meyer
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Regarding the foreign direct investment (FDI) situation in Canada, most of the attention has historically been centred on incoming rather than outgoing controlling capital. Yet, the activities of Canada-based multinational enterprises (MNEs) have fostered an impressive outflow of direct investment abroad to foreign localities.;To appreciate the importance of Canada's MNEs, it is compulsory to understand the spatial and functional characteristics of Canadian parent companies and their foreign direct investments. To realize this goal, a sizeable sample of over 20,000 examples of Canadian FDI (at various points in time) has been retrieved and subsequently agglomerated into a data set. From there, …
Contextualism And Nonlocality In Quantum Mechanics, Michael William Kernaghan
Contextualism And Nonlocality In Quantum Mechanics, Michael William Kernaghan
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I describe the conceptual problems associated with the Kochen-Specker theorem including the presuppositions of the theorem and plausible interpretations of the conclusions motivated by the theorem. I describe an idealized quantum system which demonstrates both the Kochen-Specker theorem and the Bell argument for nonlocality. I present new findings about the mathematical structures which support a proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem.
Entrepreneurship In Multinational Corporations: The Initiative Process In Foreign Subsidiaries, Julian Mark Birkinshaw
Entrepreneurship In Multinational Corporations: The Initiative Process In Foreign Subsidiaries, Julian Mark Birkinshaw
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This is an empirical study of initiatives in the subsidiaries of multinational corporations. An initiative is the subsidiary-driven creation of a value-adding activity. While previous research has focused on the "world product mandates" earned as a result of initiatives, or the corporate systems that facilitate subsidiary initiatives, this study is concerned with the internal processes that actively drive subsidiary initiatives. This issue is of vital importance to subsidiary managers who are looking for ways to enhance their value-added role in the corporation: it also has substantial implications for corporate strategy and for theoretical models of multinational management and entrepreneurship.;Two research …
The Influence Of Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields On Cytosolic-Free Calcium In Human Cells, Jeffrey John Carson
The Influence Of Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields On Cytosolic-Free Calcium In Human Cells, Jeffrey John Carson
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Extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields have been reported to affect Ca{dollar}\sp{lcub}2+{rcub}{dollar}dependent biological processes. Based on these reports, I hypothesized that cystosolic free calcium concentration ({dollar}\lbrack\rm Ca\sp{lcub}2+{rcub}\rbrack\sb{lcub}i{rcub}){dollar} may be influenced by ELF magnetic fields and found an increase in HL-60 cells following exposure {dollar}(P0.09).{dollar} However, experiments with indo-1-loaded Jurkat cells indicated frequency- and field strength-dependent effects on resting and mitogen-stimulated {dollar}\lbrack\rm Ca\sp{lcub}2+{rcub}\rbrack\sb{lcub}i{rcub}{dollar} levels {dollar}(P<0.01).{dollar} The findings show that ELF magnetic fields affect {dollar}\lbrack\rm Ca\sp{lcub}2+{rcub}\rbrack\sb{lcub}i{rcub}{dollar} and may explain some of the reported Ca{dollar}\sp{lcub}2+{rcub}{dollar}-dependent biological effects of ELF magnetic fields.
Essays On The Theory Of Growth And Unemployment, David Andolfatto
Essays On The Theory Of Growth And Unemployment, David Andolfatto
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The thesis comprises two essays that investigate the theoretical properties and empirical performance of dynamic equilibrium models designed to account for the phenomena of aggregate economic growth and unemployment.;The first essay, entitled Business Cycles and Labor Market Search, is primarily interested in providing a quantitative assessment of a particular brand of search/unemployment theory in the context of a dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium business cycle model. In order to ascertain the likely quantitative importance of the propagation mechanism induced by the search environment, an artificial economy is parameterized, calibrated, and simulated. The statistical properties of the simulated business fluctuations are then …
Evidence For A Continuum Model Of Diffusion In Lipid Bilayer Membranes: Synthesis And Studies Of Macrocyclic Polyamides In Monolayer And Lipid Bilayer Systems, Patricia Alison Paprica
Evidence For A Continuum Model Of Diffusion In Lipid Bilayer Membranes: Synthesis And Studies Of Macrocyclic Polyamides In Monolayer And Lipid Bilayer Systems, Patricia Alison Paprica
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This research project is directed towards establishing the relationship between the surface areas of intermediately sized molecules (50-300A{dollar}\sp2{dollar}) and their lateral diffusion coefficients in lipid bilayer membranes. Synthetic methods were developed to allow for the preparation of two series of macrocyclic polyamide amphiphiles, with and without fluorescent nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD) labels, using macrocyclic polyamine aza-crown ethers as starting materials.;The geometry of the macrocyclic polyamides were determined using variable temperature NMR, which has indicated that both the C(O)-N bond and NBD-N bond in the smallest, labelled macrocyclic polyamide exhibit partial double bond character. As a consequence of this restricted bond rotation, both …
Mixtures, Moments And Information: Three Essays In Econometrics, Kien C. Tran
Mixtures, Moments And Information: Three Essays In Econometrics, Kien C. Tran
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This thesis is a collection of three independent essays in econometrics.;The first essay uses the empirical characteristic function (ECF) procedure to estimate the parameters of mixtures of normal distributions and switching regression models. The ECF procedure was formally proposed by Feuerverger and Mureika (1977), Heathcote (1977). Since the characteristic function is uniformly bounded, the procedure gives estimates that are numerically stable. Furthermore, it is also shown that the finite sample properties of the ECF estimator are very good, even in the case where the popular maximum likelihood fails to exist.;The second essay applies White's (1982) information matrix (IM) test to …
Essays On Information Economics, Cheng Wang
Essays On Information Economics, Cheng Wang
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This thesis consists of three essays on information economics.;The first essay is "Dynamic Insurance between Two Risk Averse Agents with Bilateral Asymmetric Information." There are two infinitely lived agents in our model, both risk averse, and each has an i.i.d. random endowment stream which is unobservable to the other. Dynamic incentive compatibility in the Nash sense is studied. Feasible and incentive compatible coinsurance contracts are characterized. We give sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of a constrained efficient contract. We show that a constrained efficient contract can be characterized in a Bellman equation. Algorithms for numerical solution to the …
Intellectual Ability, Reaction Time And Working Memory In Young Children, Linda Theresia Miller
Intellectual Ability, Reaction Time And Working Memory In Young Children, Linda Theresia Miller
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Intelligence has been shown to correlate with reaction time and memory capacity in adults. Research with adults has demonstrated that individuals who score higher on psychometric measures of intelligence also tend to have faster, less variable reaction times and longer short-term, or working, memory spans. Research with youths suggests that similar relationships may also be present in children; however, research to date has not studied these relationships in young children. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the results previously found in adults, demonstrating a relationship between intellectual ability, speed of information processing and memory capacity, could also …
Health Politics And Structural Interests: The Development Of Community Health Centres In Ontario, William John Church
Health Politics And Structural Interests: The Development Of Community Health Centres In Ontario, William John Church
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Health care politics can be understood as a competition among interests for control and power. Traditionally, the medical profession has dominated the health sector because of its monopoly position as the provider of medical services. In Canada, the entrance of government into the medical market as a monopoly purchaser of medical services has challenged the dominant position of the medical profession.;Since the introduction of publicly financed health insurance, politicians and administrators have been concerned with gaining control over the cost of the health care system. A rethinking of the basic policy assumptions has led to efforts to rationalize the delivery …
Role Of Colligin In Collagen Biosynthesis, Neeraj Jain
Role Of Colligin In Collagen Biosynthesis, Neeraj Jain
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Colligin, a glycoprotein of molecular mass 46 kDa, is localized in the endoplasmic reticulum of diverse kinds of cells which produce collagen I. It binds collagen type I and type IV. As a step towards defining the role of colligin in the cell, the binding characteristics were studied in detail. Two different binding assays were developed. These studies showed that three moles of colligin bind per mole of procollagen with a K{dollar}\sb{lcub}\rm d{rcub}{dollar} of about 25 nM. In vivo cross-linking experiments revealed that colligin also binds to procollagen in the ER along with two other ER resident proteins, PDI and …
Glycosylation Of Peanut (Arachis Hypogaea L) Peroxidases, Lianglu Wan
Glycosylation Of Peanut (Arachis Hypogaea L) Peroxidases, Lianglu Wan
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The cationic (C.PRX) and the anionic (A.PRX) peroxidase isozymes secreted into the medium of cell cultures are both 20% glycosylated proteins. They are stable and occur in high amounts (C.PRX, 5 mg and A.PRX 0.5 mg per litre of spent culture medium), and so provide an ideal system for the study of the effect of glycosylation on the structure and function of glycoproteins.;A novel method to detect glycoproteins and glycopeptides is proposed using periodic-acid Schiff's reagent dot-blotting assay on nitrocellulose membrane. At least 0.1 ug of glycan can be detected within 40 minutes.;The amino acid sequence of C.PRX is confirmed …
An Investigation Of Student Participation And Student-Teacher Interaction In The Case Method Classroom, Debra Louise Dawson
An Investigation Of Student Participation And Student-Teacher Interaction In The Case Method Classroom, Debra Louise Dawson
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This research investigated the role of student participation and student-teacher interaction in Master of Business Administration classrooms utilizing the case method of teaching. The first goal of the study was to investigate how student characteristics are related to classroom participation and to amount learned in two diverse business courses (i.e. Marketing and Finance). The second goal was to examine the development of problem-solving skills during class participation throughout the academic year and to examine the cognitive congruence between level of teacher question and level of student response.;The 58 first year, Master of Business Administration students were videotaped at three intervals …
Cognitive/Decisional Predictors Of Coping Propensity And Stress Arousal: Validation Of A Choice/Control Schema, Mary C. Lees
Cognitive/Decisional Predictors Of Coping Propensity And Stress Arousal: Validation Of A Choice/Control Schema, Mary C. Lees
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Although stress investigators have intimated that decisional processes comprise important precursors to coping activity, there have been few attempts, within the stress domain, to conceptualize coping behaviour in the context of stress-relevant decisional models. In the present dissertation, an attempt was made to evaluate Neufeld's (1982) choice/control model. This model, which was derived from subjective expected utility theory, makes three interrelated hypotheses regarding the determinants of coping propensity and anticipatory stress arousal. Hypothesis One states that the propensity to engage in counterstress activity will be an inverse function of the ratio of the expected value of stress, given counterstress activity, …
Predicting Application Software Usage: A Longitudinal Study, Thomas Frank Davies
Predicting Application Software Usage: A Longitudinal Study, Thomas Frank Davies
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While organizations may purchase computer systems, ultimately it is people who have to use them before companies can achieve the anticipated benefits from technology investments. With a view to improving usage levels, understanding how people react to new systems has been a long-standing concern of practitioners and IS researchers. This research borrowed a behavior prediction model (Triandis 1980) from Social Psychology and applied it to the problem of understanding: the human factors that influence application software usage levels.;A longitudinal study was conducted on individuals voluntarily attempting to switch from one software application to another. A pretest yielding 38 responses was …
Unemployment Cycles: Aggregate Disturbances And Sectoral Shifts, Jing Lu
Unemployment Cycles: Aggregate Disturbances And Sectoral Shifts, Jing Lu
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This thesis consists of three essays, all of which examine the relative importance of aggregate disturbances and sectoral shifts in the explanation of unemployment cycles.;Chapter 1 of the thesis uses a search-theoretical framework to analyze a multi-sector economy in which labor productivity is subject to aggregate and sectoral shocks. After a critical review of the existing literature in this area and questioning the previous methods of shock decomposition into aggregate disturbance and sectoral shift components, this paper develops a new method for partitioning the effects of these two shocks on unemployment. It is argued that the mean and the dispersion …
Visual Interactive Linear Programming: The Concept, An Example And An Empirical Assessment Of Its Value In Supporting Managerial Decision-Making, Arshad Ahmad Taseen
Visual Interactive Linear Programming: The Concept, An Example And An Empirical Assessment Of Its Value In Supporting Managerial Decision-Making, Arshad Ahmad Taseen
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Decision support systems (DSS) and visual interactive (VI) modelling emerged during the 1970s at roughly the same time (Sprague and Watson, 1989), (Belton, 1991). Both ideas seem to have been driven more by advances in computer technology and increasing management demands than any theory. There are both similarities and differences between them. DSS often use some visual and interactive features (see Turban and Carlson, 1989), but seldom refer to them in terms of a VI model. On the other hand, a VI model is almost always built to support decision-making, and is often referred to as a DSS. Both have …
Fertility And Economic Growth, Jie Zhang
Fertility And Economic Growth, Jie Zhang
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The thesis comprises three chapters which model fertility and economic growth simultaneously in overlapping generations frameworks.;Chapter 1 focuses on the relation between fertility and wage rates and examines the effects on fertility and growth of subsidies for education and for the cost of rearing children by assuming that agents care about the consumption and number of children. Without education, this model reconciles two conflicting results about the relationship between fertility and wage rates: while Malthus and others predict a positive relation, Barro and Becker find a negative relation. With education, the positive relation between fertility and wage rates can no …
Essays On Money, Banking, And Contracts, Siu Cheong Fung
Essays On Money, Banking, And Contracts, Siu Cheong Fung
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In the first chapter, a computable equilibrium business cycle model is constructed to study the effects of inflation and taxation on the allocation of capital and time between the market sector and the home sector. In the model, individuals derive utility from the consumption of market goods and services, which are produced by combining business capital and market time, and from the consumption of home goods and services, which are produced by using household capital and nonmarket time. Money is incorporated into the model using a cash-in-advance constraint which applies to the purchase of market consumption goods. The model economy …