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Minutes, December 21, 1999 Dec 1999

Minutes, December 21, 1999

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Strategy And Circumstance: The Response Of American Firms To Japanese Competition In Semiconductors, 1980-1995, Richard N. Langlois, W. Edward Steinmueller Dec 1999

Strategy And Circumstance: The Response Of American Firms To Japanese Competition In Semiconductors, 1980-1995, Richard N. Langlois, W. Edward Steinmueller

Economics Working Papers

The transistor was an American invention, and American firms led the world in semiconductor production and innovation for the first three decades of that industry's existence. In the 1980s, however, Japanese producers began to challenge American dominance. Shrill cries arose from the literature of public policy, warning that the American semiconductor industry would soon share the fate of the lamented American consumer electronics business. Few dissented from the implications: the only hope for salvation would be to adopt Japanese-style public policies and imitate the kinds of capabilities Japanese firms possessed. But the predicted extinction never occurred. Instead, American firms surged …


Technological Standards, Innovation, And Essential Facilities: Toward A Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach, Richard N. Langlois Dec 1999

Technological Standards, Innovation, And Essential Facilities: Toward A Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach, Richard N. Langlois

Economics Working Papers

In this essay, I attempt to take seriously Schumpeter's perspective on competition as fundamentally about innovation. Drawing on literatures that concern themselves centrally with the patterns and processes of technological change, I focus on a set of issues very much on the present-day agenda: antitrust policy toward network industries in which technological standards are important. As both scholars and legal cases have suggested, one might logically view a set of standards as an "essential facility" - a technological bottleneck - for those who wish to connect to the network.. I attempt to define the limits of the standard price-theoretic account …


Minutes, November 16, 1999 Nov 1999

Minutes, November 16, 1999

Agendas and Minutes

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Corruption And Legitimation Crises In Latin America, Ángel Oquendo Oct 1999

Corruption And Legitimation Crises In Latin America, Ángel Oquendo

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod Oct 1999

Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Between Large Fiscal Adjustments And Short-Term Output Growth Under Alternative Fiscal Policy Regimes, Stephen M. Miller, Frank S. Russek Oct 1999

The Relationship Between Large Fiscal Adjustments And Short-Term Output Growth Under Alternative Fiscal Policy Regimes, Stephen M. Miller, Frank S. Russek

Economics Working Papers

A small, but growing, body of literature searches for evidence of non-Keynesian effects of fiscal contractions. That is, some evidence exists that large fiscal contractions stimulate short-run economic activity. Our paper continues this research effort by systematically examining the effects, if any, of unusual fiscal events - either non-Keynesian results within a Keynesian model or Keynesian results within a neoclassical model -- on short-run economic activity. We examine this issue within three separate models -- a St. Louis equation, a Hall-type consumption equation, and a growth accounting equation. Our empirical findings are mixed, and do not provide strong systematic support …


Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod Oct 1999

Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Minutes, September 14, 1999 Sep 1999

Minutes, September 14, 1999

Agendas and Minutes

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Ontology And Realism About Modality, Crawford Elder Sep 1999

Ontology And Realism About Modality, Crawford Elder

Philosophy Articles

A philosopher who thinks substantive necessities obtain in re, this paper argues, need not believe in non-actual worlds, or maximal consistent sets of propositions, but merely in properties. For most properties, on even the sparsest property realism, are flanked by contraries with which they cannot be co-instantiated. True, Armstrong has shown that the impossibility that a property bearer should bear each of two contraries is sometimes just the impossibility that the bearer should be identical with its own proper part-hence is no substantive impossibility. But for many genuine contraries Armstrong's analysis fails; their incompatibility cannot be reduced to facts of …


Modularity In Technology, Organization, And Society, Richard N. Langlois Aug 1999

Modularity In Technology, Organization, And Society, Richard N. Langlois

Economics Working Papers

Modularity is a very general set of principles for managing complexity. By breaking up a complex system into discrete modules - which can then communicate with one another only through standardized interfaces within a standardized architecture - one can eliminate what would otherwise be an unmanageable spaghetti tangle of systemic interconnections. Such ideas are not new in the literature of technological design (Simon 1962, Alexander 1964), even if, as some claim (Baldwin and Clark 1997), modularity is becoming more important today because of the increased complexity of modern technology. What is new is the application of the idea of modularity …


Minutes, July 21, 1999 Jul 1999

Minutes, July 21, 1999

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Jack O’Connell, The Myth Of Quinsigamond, Michael J. Bennett Jul 1999

Jack O’Connell, The Myth Of Quinsigamond, Michael J. Bennett

Published Works

No abstract provided.


The Level Of Development And The Determinants Of Productivity Growth, Habib Ahmed, Stephen M. Miller Jul 1999

The Level Of Development And The Determinants Of Productivity Growth, Habib Ahmed, Stephen M. Miller

Economics Working Papers

We examine the effects of technology on productivity growth by disaggregating total output into sectoral components, exploring the roles of investment and technology on productivity growth for countries in different income groups. We find that for low-income countries, investment is the most important determinant of productivity growth. While investment plays an important role in determining productivity growth in middle-income countries, additional effects resulting from technological change also emerge. Investment ceases to have a significant effect on productivity growth in high-income countries.


A Model Of Endogenous Union Density And Membership, Habib Ahmed, Stephen M. Miller Jul 1999

A Model Of Endogenous Union Density And Membership, Habib Ahmed, Stephen M. Miller

Economics Working Papers

We develop a theoretical model of endogenously determined union density and union membership. A union is formed, continued, or dissolved by majority voting. Given the profitability, production technology, and labor and product market conditions, the union determines the reservation wage that is acceptable to the firm. Based on this reservation wage and other subjective factors, workers vote for or against the union. If the union is formed, the firm determines the employment level at the union wage.


Crowding-Out And Crowding-In Effects Of The Components Of Government Expenditure, Habib Ahmed, Stephen M. Miller Jul 1999

Crowding-Out And Crowding-In Effects Of The Components Of Government Expenditure, Habib Ahmed, Stephen M. Miller

Economics Working Papers

We examine the effects of disaggregated government expenditure on investment using fixed- and random-effect methods. Using the government budget constraint, we explore the effects of tax- and debt-financed expenditure for the full sample, and for sub-samples of developed and developing countries. In general, tax-financed government expenditure crowds out more investment than debt-financed expenditure. Expenditure on social security and welfare reduces investment in all samples while expenditure on transport and communication induces private investment in developing countries.


Chief Justice Marshall In The Context Of His Times, R. Kent Newmyer Jul 1999

Chief Justice Marshall In The Context Of His Times, R. Kent Newmyer

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Minutes, June 25, 1999 Jun 1999

Minutes, June 25, 1999

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Minutes, June 14, 1999 Jun 1999

Minutes, June 14, 1999

Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.


Laminin-1 And Fibronectin Distribution Changes During The Apical Migration Of Rat Junctional Epithelium, Efthimia K. Ioannidou Jun 1999

Laminin-1 And Fibronectin Distribution Changes During The Apical Migration Of Rat Junctional Epithelium, Efthimia K. Ioannidou

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Tnf- A Levels In The Gingival Crevicular Fluid Of Teeth With External Apical Root Resorption, Robert Babak Marzban Jun 1999

Tnf- A Levels In The Gingival Crevicular Fluid Of Teeth With External Apical Root Resorption, Robert Babak Marzban

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Outcome Assessment: A Skeletal And Dental Perspective, Gregory A. Mckenna Jun 1999

Outcome Assessment: A Skeletal And Dental Perspective, Gregory A. Mckenna

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Effect Of Porphyromonas Gingivalis Complex Lipids On The Monocyte Secretory Function, Kaesarin Rojanasomsith Jun 1999

Effect Of Porphyromonas Gingivalis Complex Lipids On The Monocyte Secretory Function, Kaesarin Rojanasomsith

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Prospective Investigation Of Maxillary Central Incisor Root Resorption Incident To Orthodontic Therapy, Christine Marie O'Hea Jun 1999

Prospective Investigation Of Maxillary Central Incisor Root Resorption Incident To Orthodontic Therapy, Christine Marie O'Hea

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Use Of Vital Stains In Determination Of The Viability Of Enterococcus Faecalis In Dentinal Tubules, David Charles Beachler Jun 1999

Use Of Vital Stains In Determination Of The Viability Of Enterococcus Faecalis In Dentinal Tubules, David Charles Beachler

SoDM Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Identification Of Dental Health Need In Non-Urban Communities, Patricia Beckenhaupt Jun 1999

Identification Of Dental Health Need In Non-Urban Communities, Patricia Beckenhaupt

UCHC Graduate School Masters Theses 2003 - 2010

No abstract provided.


Temporal Trends Of Risk Factors Associated With Low Birthweight - National, State And Local: 1992 - 1996, Gloria Lyons Borders Jun 1999

Temporal Trends Of Risk Factors Associated With Low Birthweight - National, State And Local: 1992 - 1996, Gloria Lyons Borders

UCHC Graduate School Masters Theses 2003 - 2010

No abstract provided.


Application Of Managed Care To Public-Sector Mental Health And Addiction Services, Michael Anthony Michaud Jun 1999

Application Of Managed Care To Public-Sector Mental Health And Addiction Services, Michael Anthony Michaud

UCHC Graduate School Masters Theses 2003 - 2010

No abstract provided.


Tmd Treatment And Coverage Issues: A Survey Of Connecticut Dentists, Rene N. Lopez Jun 1999

Tmd Treatment And Coverage Issues: A Survey Of Connecticut Dentists, Rene N. Lopez

UCHC Graduate School Masters Theses 2003 - 2010

No abstract provided.


Sexually Abusive Juveniles: From Tertiary To Primary Prevention, Pamela Katherine Linder Jun 1999

Sexually Abusive Juveniles: From Tertiary To Primary Prevention, Pamela Katherine Linder

UCHC Graduate School Masters Theses 2003 - 2010

No abstract provided.