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Econ 3015 Course Proposal 10/01/2008, Curriculum Committee
Econ 3015 Course Proposal 10/01/2008, Curriculum Committee
Curriculum Committee Reports
No abstract provided.
Diversifying America's Energy Future: The Future Of Renewable Wind Power, Ronald H. Rosenberg
Diversifying America's Energy Future: The Future Of Renewable Wind Power, Ronald H. Rosenberg
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Increasing The Role Of Local Governments In Infrastructure Projects In Russia And Bulgaria As A Tool For Environmental Protection, Stanimir N. Kostov
Increasing The Role Of Local Governments In Infrastructure Projects In Russia And Bulgaria As A Tool For Environmental Protection, Stanimir N. Kostov
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
No abstract provided.
Econ 3014 Course Proposal 10/01/2008, Curriculum Committee
Econ 3014 Course Proposal 10/01/2008, Curriculum Committee
Curriculum Committee Reports
No abstract provided.
Changing The Paradigm Of Stock Ownership From Concentrated Towards Dispersed Ownership? Evidence From Brazil And Consequences For Emerging Countries, Erica Gorga
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
This paper analyzes micro-level dynamics of changes in ownership structures. It investigates a unique event: changes in ownership patterns currently taking place in Brazil. It builds upon empirical evidence to advance theoretical understanding of how and why concentrated ownership structures can change towards dispersed ownership.
Commentators argue that the Brazilian capital markets are finally taking off. The number of listed companies and IPOs in the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) has greatly increased. Firms are migrating to Bovespa’s special listing segments, which require higher standards of corporate governance. Companies have sold control in the market, and the stock market has …
Pro Bono Publico As A Conscience Good, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Pro Bono Publico As A Conscience Good, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Deborah Schmedemann
Pro bono work performed by American lawyers serves a critical role in the American civil justice system. This paper seeks to explain pro bono through the lens of social science research into volunteering, in particular the economic concept of a conscience good. The paper presents the results of an empirical study involving over 1,100 law students and lawyers. The results include data on lawyers’ motivations to perform pro bono, the impact of various pro bono rules and invitations to perform pro bono, the satisfactions of pro bono work, emotions triggered by pro bono work and pro bono clients, and the …
Pro Bono Publico As A Conscience Good, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Pro Bono Publico As A Conscience Good, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Deborah Schmedemann
Pro bono work performed by American lawyers serves a critical role in the American civil justice system. This paper seeks to explain pro bono through the lens of social science research into volunteering, in particular the economic concept of a conscience good. The paper presents the results of an empirical study involving over 1,100 law students and lawyers. The results include data on lawyers’ motivations to perform pro bono, the impact of various pro bono rules and invitations to perform pro bono, the satisfactions of pro bono work, emotions triggered by pro bono work and pro bono clients, and the …
Clitoridectomy And The Economics Of Islamic Marriage & Divorce Law, Ryan M. Riegg
Clitoridectomy And The Economics Of Islamic Marriage & Divorce Law, Ryan M. Riegg
Ryan M. Riegg
Toward A Global Shareholder Society, Robert C. Hockett
Toward A Global Shareholder Society, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
With the American economy seemingly stalling, the global economy thereby imperiled, and another electoral campaign season well underway in the U.S., the "outsourcing" of jobs from the developed to the developing world is again on the public agenda. Latest figures indicate not only that layoffs and claims for joblessness benefits are up in the U.S., but also that the rate of American job-exportation has more than doubled since the last electoral cycle. This year's American political candidates have been quick to take note. In consequence, more than at any time since the early 1990s, continued American, and with it other …
Economics Form A: Discipline Summary 09/08/2008, Curriculum Committee
Economics Form A: Discipline Summary 09/08/2008, Curriculum Committee
Curriculum Committee Reports
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Private Sector Investment In International Microfinance And The Implications Of Domestic Regulatory Environments, William A. Langer
The Role Of Private Sector Investment In International Microfinance And The Implications Of Domestic Regulatory Environments, William A. Langer
William A Langer
The Role of Private Sector Investment in International Microfinance and the Implications of Domestic Regulatory Environments
By William Langer
Microfinance – the practice of providing small, working capital loans and other financial services to poor individuals unable to obtain access to commercial sources of credit – has been able to transform the lives of over 100 million microentrepreneurs and their families in various regions throughout the world. Despite this impressive achievement, microfinance currently reaches only 10% of the estimated demand for microfinance services, comprised of approximately 1 to 1.5 billion self-employed poor persons worldwide. Practitioners agree that in order to …
Economic Outlook For Expansion Of The Eastern Shore Farmers’ Market: Seafood Handling, Storage, And Transportation Facility, Thomas J. Murray, James E. Kirkley
Economic Outlook For Expansion Of The Eastern Shore Farmers’ Market: Seafood Handling, Storage, And Transportation Facility, Thomas J. Murray, James E. Kirkley
Reports
No abstract provided.
Comparing Judicial Compensation: Apples, Oranges, And Cherry-Picking, Matthew W. Wolfe
Comparing Judicial Compensation: Apples, Oranges, And Cherry-Picking, Matthew W. Wolfe
Matthew W. Wolfe
United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts describes the American judiciary as the envy of other constitutional democracies. But in one respect, the judiciary apparently trails others: judicial pay. Citing higher salaries of judges in other countries, Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito have all argued that inadequate judicial pay leads to a decline in judicial performance and quality. Judicial pay advocates apparently make these comparisons to emphasize that low judicial salaries “threaten” judicial quality and independence or, alternatively, that high judicial salaries “ensure” quality and independence. But the argument is incomplete, relying upon …
Dr. Miles Is Dead. Now What?: Structuring A Rule Of Reason For Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, Thomas A. Lambert
Dr. Miles Is Dead. Now What?: Structuring A Rule Of Reason For Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, Thomas A. Lambert
Thomas A. Lambert
In Leegin Creative Leather Prods., Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., decided in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its 1911 precedent declaring vertical minimum resale price maintenance (RPM) to be per se illegal. The Leegin Court held that the practice should instead be examined on a case-by-case basis under antitrust's rule of reason. The Court further exhorted the lower courts to craft a "structured" rule of reason for evaluating RPM. This article critiques six approaches that have been proposed for evaluating minimum RPM and offers an alternative approach. The six approaches critiqued are (1) the Brandeisian, unstructured rule of reason; (2) …
Statistical String Theory For Courts: If The Data Don't Fit..., David F. Babbel
Statistical String Theory For Courts: If The Data Don't Fit..., David F. Babbel
David F Babbel
The primary purpose of this article is to provide courts with an important new tool for applying the correct probability distribution to a given legal question. This tool is path-breaking and will have an extensive impact on how a wide variety of cases are decided. In areas as diverse as criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits alleging securities fraud, courts must assess the relevance and reliability of statistical data and the inferences drawn therefrom. But, courts and expert witnesses often make mistaken assumptions about what probability distributions are appropriate for their analyses. Using the wrong probability distribution can lead to invalid …
Nudging For Liberty: Values In Libertarian Paternalism, Michael S. Mcpherson, Matthew A. Smith
Nudging For Liberty: Values In Libertarian Paternalism, Michael S. Mcpherson, Matthew A. Smith
Michael S. McPherson
In their recent book, Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein argue persuasively that default rules, framing effects, etc., can be used to promote people's welfare. Through a range of empirical examples, we show that it is possible and often preferable to promote values other than welfare. For example, in certain situations default rules can be used to promote people’s exercise of liberty, the equality between citizens, or any other number of values. The core of the paper is showing that these examples do not devolve into welfare, and thereby enhancing the range of options open to policy makers.
Gmm Based Inference With Standard Stratified Samples When The Aggregate Shares Are Known, Gautam Tripathi
Gmm Based Inference With Standard Stratified Samples When The Aggregate Shares Are Known, Gautam Tripathi
Economics Working Papers
We show how to do efficient moment based inference using the generalized method of moments (GMM) when data is collected by standard stratified sampling and the maintained assumption is that the aggregate shares are known.
Minority Status And Managerial Survival In Major League Baseball, Brian Volz
Minority Status And Managerial Survival In Major League Baseball, Brian Volz
Economics Working Papers
The effect of minority status on managerial survival in Major League Baseball is analyzed using survival time analysis and data envelopment analysis. Efficiency scores based on team performance and player salary data from 1985 to 2006 are computed and included as covariates in a survival time analysis. It is shown that when controlling for performance and personal characteristics minorities are on average 9.6 percentage points more likely to return the following season. Additionally, it is shown that winning percentage has no impact on managerial survival when efficiency is controlled for.
Legal Change And The Social Value Of Lawsuits, Thomas J. Miceli
Legal Change And The Social Value Of Lawsuits, Thomas J. Miceli
Economics Working Papers
This paper integrates the literatures on the social value of lawsuits, the evolution of the law, and judicial preferences to evaluate the hypothesis that the law evolves toward efficiency. The setting is a simple accident model with costly litigation where the efficient law minimizes the sum of accident plus litigation costs. In the steady state equilibrium, the distribution of legal rules is not necessarily efficient but instead depends on a combination of selective litigation, judicial bias, and precedent.
Low-Wage Labor Markets And The Power Of Suggestion, Natalya Y. Shelkova
Low-Wage Labor Markets And The Power Of Suggestion, Natalya Y. Shelkova
Economics Working Papers
Low-wage labor markets are traditionally viewed as competitive, and the possibility of strategic behavior by employers is dismissed. However, such behavior is not impossible. This paper investigates the possibility of tacit collusion by low-wage employers while setting wages. A game-theoretic explanation along the lines of the Folk theorem is offered, suggesting that a non-binding minimum wage may serve as a focal point for tacit collusion, proposing a symmetric solution to an infinitely played game of wage-setting. Several empirical techniques were employed in testing the hypothesis, including hurdle models of collusion. CPS monthly data is used for the years 1990-2005, covering …
Comparing Input- And Output-Oriented Measures Of Technical Efficiency To Determine Local Returns To Scale In Dea Models, Subhash C. Ray
Comparing Input- And Output-Oriented Measures Of Technical Efficiency To Determine Local Returns To Scale In Dea Models, Subhash C. Ray
Economics Working Papers
This paper shows how one can infer the nature of local returns to scale at the input- or output-oriented efficient projection of a technically inefficient input-output bundle, when the input- and output-oriented measures of efficiency differ.
The Impact Of Property Condition Disclosure Laws On Housing Prices: Evidence From An Event Study Using Propensity Scores, Anupam Nanda, Stephen L. Ross
The Impact Of Property Condition Disclosure Laws On Housing Prices: Evidence From An Event Study Using Propensity Scores, Anupam Nanda, Stephen L. Ross
Economics Working Papers
We examine the impact of seller's Property Condition Disclosure Law on the residential real estate values. A disclosure law may address the information asymmetry in housing transactions shifting of risk from buyers and brokers to the sellers and raising housing prices as a result. We combine propensity score techniques from the treatment effects literature with a traditional event study approach. We assemble a unique set of economic and institutional attributes for a quarterly panel of 291 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and 50 US States spanning 21 years from 1984 to 2004 is used to exploit the MSA level variation …
Identity, Grievances, And Economic Determinants Of Voting In The 2007 Kenyan Elections, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Roxana Gutierrez Romero
Identity, Grievances, And Economic Determinants Of Voting In The 2007 Kenyan Elections, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Roxana Gutierrez Romero
Economics Working Papers
What might have caused the post-2007 election violence in Kenya? Was it election irregularities as widely claimed or could it have been simmering ethnic-rivalries waiting to spill over? While not directly focusing on the post-election violence, we investigate a number of issues that divided Kenyans in the 2007 Presidential election. Following a rational choice framework and using survey data of voter opinions, we find that Kenyan voters are strategic, seeking to maximize their well-being and influenced by a number of factors that go beyond their ethnicity such as their absolute and relative living standards, access to public goods and also …
To Hell With Kyoto, It’S Time For Something Real!, Altdus Ray Frank
To Hell With Kyoto, It’S Time For Something Real!, Altdus Ray Frank
Altdus Ray Frank
The intended gift of clean air and pristine atmosphere through the inception of the Kyoto Protocol was meant to be a measure to protect the environment for not only the present generation, but the future as well. Instead of accepting this gift, humanity has yet again showed its darker side; shredding the ambitious purpose of this document and crucifying its creators as being overzealous, overbearing fools. People must come to terms and understand that environmental catastrophe is the single greatest threat faced by humanity today.
It is time for a new dawn, a new era where, the global community has …
Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?, Alan M. Garber, Jonathan Skinner
Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?, Alan M. Garber, Jonathan Skinner
Dartmouth Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Economics B.A. Course Summary 2008, Curriculum Committee
Economics B.A. Course Summary 2008, Curriculum Committee
Curriculum Committee Reports
No abstract provided.
Economics Minor Course Summary 2008, Curriculum Committee
Economics Minor Course Summary 2008, Curriculum Committee
Curriculum Committee Reports
No abstract provided.
Maximizing Social Influence To Minimize Carbon Emissions: Law And Social Norms In Collective Action, Jed S. Ela
Maximizing Social Influence To Minimize Carbon Emissions: Law And Social Norms In Collective Action, Jed S. Ela
Jed S Ela
Legal scholars have long argued that informal social norms can solve collective action problems, as long as these problems occur in close-knit groups. This “group knittedness hypothesis” may suggest that social norms, by themselves, will not be able to solve the world’s largest collective action problem: anthropogenic climate change. Yet recent scholarship has taken the group knittedness hypothesis too far, suggesting that any attempt to manage social influences in large, loose-knit groups is likely to be relatively ineffective.
In fact, social norms can shape individual behavior even in loose-knit groups, and climate policies that ignore norms may miss important opportunities …
Implications Of The Uk Companies Act 2006 For Institutional Investors And The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement, Gordon L. Clark, Eric R. W. Knight
Implications Of The Uk Companies Act 2006 For Institutional Investors And The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement, Gordon L. Clark, Eric R. W. Knight
Eric R Knight
Non-governmental organisations, activists, and the public-at-large hold large firms accountable on many issues including their environmental footprints and the social standards of their suppliers around the world. For those coming from European social democratic traditions, stakeholders have a legitimate voice in the affairs of the corporation especially in two-tiered governance regimes that separate supervision from management. Notwithstanding attempts to re-write their proper roles and responsibilities, the Anglo-American corporation is widely believed to be the medium for the accumulation of shareholder value.
Recently, however, a counter-argument has emerged suggesting that the UK Companies Act 2006 broke with this tradition to embrace …
Midnight Regulations And Regulatory Review, Jerry Brito
Midnight Regulations And Regulatory Review, Jerry Brito
Jerry Brito
The term “midnight regulations” describes the dramatic spike of new regulations promulgated at the end of presidential terms, especially during transitions to an administration of the opposite party. As commentators have pointed out, this phenomenon is problematic because it is the result of a lack of presidential accountability during the midnight period—the time after the November election and before Inauguration Day. Midnight regulations, however, present another problem that receives little attention. It is the prospect that an increase in the number of regulations promulgated in a given time-period could overwhelm the institutional review process that serves to ensure that new …