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Wal-Mart Open For Business: A 30th Anniversary Salute To Wal-Mart, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

One Nation Under God: How Close A Seperation?, Sixth Edition, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

No abstract provided.

Documentation For Econ 199, Kang Lang Lee

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This internship report consists of the materials and techniques that I prepared for teaching the two sessions of ECON 199, an introductory undergraduate Economics course, at the University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio.

My primary objective in teaching these classes was to make economics courses interesting by introducing students to the basic economic concepts, providing them a better picture of how the economy performs, and showing them how to analyze and solve current economic problems.

A Listing Of Foreign Firms And Companies Operating In The Dayton Area Chamber Of Commerce, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

Development of a listing of foreign-owned businesses operating in and around Dayton is aimed at creating a directory of foreign firms for the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce's data base. This will help the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce to publish an up-to-date list of foreign subsidiaries and further promote foreign interest in the Dayton business community.

A wide variety of sources were consulted to accurately identify all Dayton-based, foreign-controlled businesses. These sources include prominent directories of foreign-owned firms, foreign embassies, consulates and trade commissions, a variety of publications of the U.S. Department of Commerce, local chambers of commerce and …

A Quarterly Income Tax Revenue Forecasting Model For The City Of Fairborn Ohio, Mark Thomas Fraley

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The Fairborn econometric income tax revenue forecasting model developed establishes a connection between conditions in the local, regional, and national economy and the variance of income tax collections. The model was designed to meet as many of the criteria stated in the Foster Group's Assessment as possible, while still holding to economic theory and econometric modeling procedures. In the model, variation in the predictor variables account for 97% of the variation in income tax collections. Several statistical tests were conducted on the model to insure efficient and unbiased results.

In demonstrating the forecasting procedures for the model, assumptions for high, …

Non-Monetary Effects On Inflation Within The Price-Gap Model, Leonard Loebach

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine some of the various non-monetary effects on inflation within the framework of the price-gap model. Some of the non-monetary shocks that can affect inflation include wage adjustments, changes in basic commodity prices (for example, crude oil), changes in the exchange rates, and shifts in inflationary expectations.

In April of 1989, a study was put out by the Federal Reserve (staff study 157) that examined the relationship between the current price level and an estimate of the long-run equilibrium price level. In the study, an indicator P* (pronounced P-star) was used to estimate …

Banking The Furnace: Restructuring Of The Steel Industry In Eight Countries, Trevor Bain

Upjohn Press

Trevor Bain explores the industry restructurings that occurred in eight major steel-producing countries, including the U.S., Germany and Japan. He begins by categorizing each country as having either an adversarial or a cooperative industrial relations system, and then analyzes the differences in implementation strategies. He also determines who - employers, employees, or government - bore the cost of these adjustments and which industrial relations systems were more efficient in restructuring.

Improving Access To Health Care: What Can The States Do?, John Henry Goddeeris Editor, Andrew J. Hogan Editor

Upjohn Press

Health care cost increases may seem under control but the issue of access remains a serious problem. This text features a dozen essays addressing that issue from the states' perspective.

Wage And Employment Adjustment In Local Labor Markets, Randall W. Eberts, Joe Allan Stone

Upjohn Press

Eberts and Stone have created dynamic models of labor supply and demand behavior for metropolitan labor markets. They use these models to simulate wage, employment, and personal income responses to local economic change, including changes brought about by governmental policy.

Job Accessibility And The Employment And School Enrollment Of Teenagers, Keith R. Ihlanfeldt

Upjohn Press

Ihlanfeldt presents data that strongly support the "spatial mismatch hypothesis" for the high unemployment rate of disadvantaged teens. This theory, which the author thoroughly outlines in this work, asserts that the suburbanization of low-skill jobs and continued housing market segregation have reduced the job opportunities of inner-city dwelling minorities. This book extends Ihlanfeldt's earlier work on spatial mismatch by incorporating school enrollment decisions and other urban factors into his analysis. Thus, he also demonstrates empirically that job access is related to the high school dropout problem and concludes that poor access to jobs is useful in explaining the relatively low …

The Red And The Green: The Rise And Fall Of Collectivized Agriculture In Marxist Regimes, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Changes In The Western Australian Dairy Farm Industry, Ross Kingwell, Graham Annan

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Over the past decade, the number of dairy cows and the number of producers in the Western Australian dairy industry have steadily declined. The industry still relies heavily on market milk quotas for its profits, but recent export contracts have boosted profits from manufacturing milk production.

Market milk quotas remain unevenly distributed across the dairy regions and amongst quotaholders, although the regional distribution of quotas is changing.

Deficit Ricardo Money Articles, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes copies of five articles:

• De Haan, J., Zelhorst, H. D., Eisner, R., & Pieper, P. J. (1988). The relationship between real deficits and real growth: A critique [with rejoinder]. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 11(1), 148–168.

• Ricardo, D. (1887). Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810–1823 (J. Bonar, Ed.). Clarendon Press. (pp. 38–51, 194–201)

• Semmler, W. (1980, September 19). Ricardo and Marx on taxation and the effects of taxation on prices and profit rate [Unpublished manuscript].

• Edie, L. D. (1928). Money, bank credit and prices. Harper & Brothers. (pp. 239–258)

• Fry, M. J. …

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Economic Crisis And Policy Choice: The Politics Of Adjustment In The 3rd World, By J.M. Nelson, Zaki Eusufzai

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Wage Flexibility And Unemployment Dynamics In Regional Labor Markets, Thomas Hyclak, Geraint Johnes

Upjohn Press

Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets.

Ricardian Equivalence Or The Indifference Between Tax And Debt Financing, Chad Moutray

Masters Theses

Ricardian equivalence is a topic which has attracted much attention in the economic journals in the past couple of decades. Economic theory states that a tax cut gives the public a greater disposable income. Thus, the public will consume more, and the economy will grow. However, if the tax cut is financed by debt, the public will perceive that a future tax increase is inevitable to pay off the debt. Under this scenario, the public will not consume more. Instead, they will save all of their increased disposable income in anticipation of the future tax increase. Ricardian equivalence then is …

Assorted Non-Shaikh 5, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Fuller, C. G. (1996). Elements of a post-Keynesian alternative to “household production.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 18(4), 595–607.

• Paul, W. (1974). A classical rebuttal. In Macroeconomics.

• Tobin, J. (1992). An old Keynesian counterattacks. Eastern Economic Journal, 18(4), 387–400.

• Chapters from Stigler, G. J. (1966). The theory of price (3rd ed.). Macmillan Co.; Collier-Macmillan.

• A chapter on effective demand in Howard, M. C. (1983). Profits in economic theory. St. Martin’s Press.

Some Improvements On An Algorithm For Controlled Selection, Ting Kwong Lin

Research Collection School Of Economics

The sampling technique called controlled selection was f'irst described by Goodman and Kish (1950). It was found to be a very useful sampling technique among practicing survey samplers, especially in selecting first-stage units in multi-stage sampling. Hess, Riedel and Fitzpatrick (1961, 1975) have given a simple illustration on how it can be implemented in the sampling of hospitals in the state of Michigan. In this paper, we show how the Groves-Hess algorithm can be improved and how further controls which are useful to survey practitioners can be built into the algorithm. Problems the old algorithm could not solve can now …

Market Efficiency Test Of Australian Options Market Using Put Call Parity Analysis, Eng Kiang Peter Lee

Theses : Honours

The aims of this thesis is twofold. The primary objective is to test the market efficiency of Australian Options Marlcet (AOM) using the put call parity model. In addition, empirical evidence on the put call parity model is also gather. The put call parity model specified a deterministic relation between the prices of calls and puts. In particular, the put call parity model specifies an upper and lower boundary conditions. A breach in the put call parity model result in arbitrage opportunities which is inconsistent with a efficient market. Four companies share options traded in AOM over a six month …

Analyzing Income Tax Evasion Using Amnesty Data With Self-Selection Correction: The Case Of The Michigan Tax Amnesty Program, Steven E. Crane, Farrokh Nourzad

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Atomism, Identity Criteria, And Impossibility Logic, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 12-31-1991, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

This issue of the New Mexico Labor Market Review presents November 1991 employment, unemployment, wage, and economic activity data for New Mexico, its counties, and metropolitan areas.

Exchange Rate And Income Effects On South Korean Exports: The Us Case, Heather M. O'Neill, William Ross

Business and Economics Faculty Publications

This paper analyzes econometrically the effects of direct and cross exchange rates as well as US income and Korean supply developments on the volume of Korean exports to the US. The results suggest that US demand has been the most important factor in the growth of Korean exports to the US in recent years. However, direct exchange rate effects are also important; the estimates suggest that for 1989-90, a yearly 10% real appreciation of the won against the dollar would have lowered export volume by about 10% per year relative to a baseline case. Cross exchange rate effects run counter …

Instrumental Valuation Indicators For Natural Resources And Ecosystems, F. Gregory Hayden

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

Beldon Daniels, in the early draft of his latest book, which has a working title of Rediscovering America, 1992, has written that there have been four major eras in human history. The fourth, into which we are now evolving, according to Daniels, is the age of intelligence. Although the intelligence activity of the modern age both uses and directs the development of large quantities of data, information, and knowledge; a measurement concept, or unit for valuation has yet to be developed. The industrial age from which we are evolving, consistent with the technology of that era, has used industrial …

The Choice Of A Mixing Distribution In Duration Models, Sanjiv Jaggia

Economics

The Hougaard mixing distribution is considered for a Weibull duration model. This distribution is flexible and also encompasses the gamma and the inverse Gaussian distributions making it useful in discriminating between alternate distributions.

Export Of Non-Traditional Items From India To European Community(Ec), S N Chary

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 11-29-1991, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review is a monthly publication presenting statistical data and analysis on labor market conditions throughout New Mexico. Issues examine statewide and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labor force estimates, industry activity, wages, occupational demand, and related economic conditions, often accompanied by feature articles on topics affecting the state’s economy. This issue covers October 1991.

Testing Purchasing Power Parity Under The Null Hypothesis Of Co-Integration, Eric O'N. Fisher, Yoon Y. Park

Economics

No abstract provided.

Comparative Advantage And The Equilibrium Rate Of Unemployment, Hian Teck Hoon

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper develops a two-country Heckscher-Ohlin model with endogenous equilibrium involuntary unemployment to examine the question: What is the effect of free trade on the equilibrium rates of unemployment in the labor abundant and labor-scarce countries? It is shown that free trade leads to a decline in the equilibrium rate of unemployment in the labor-abundant country but to a rise in unemployment in the labor-scarce country.

University Policies, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Collection includes a document titled Principles and Procedures for Faculty Grievances at the New School for Social Research.

• Letter from Barbara W. Emerson to faculty, including Professor Shaikh, regarding hiring for a University Ombudsperson position (December 10, 1997).

• Annotated draft of the grievance procedures document (November 1, 1994).

• Letter from Jonathan F. Fanton to Judith Friedlander concerning tenure cases (September 1, 1993).

• Memo from Jacob Landynsk regarding the travel expenses budget (November 1, 1991).

• Memo from Alan Wolfe regarding a faculty meeting (September 25, 1990).

• Article titled "Are People of Color Entitled to Extra Freedom of Speech?"

• Journal article from …

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