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Demand For Refined Lead, John Heineke

Economics

This paper is part of a Ph.D. dissertation submitted by the author to the Graduate College, University of Iowa, and was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant GS-1491. The author acknowledges the guidance and encouragement received from Professor S. Y. Wu.

The Supply Of Legal And Illegal Activity: A Choice Theoretic Analysis, John Heineke, M. K. Block

Economics

We will show below that failure to fully specify the choice problem and therefore the transformation between what is inherently a multi-attribute decision problem and the wealth only problem has led Becker, Ehrlich, and Sjoquist to conclusions which are valid only in very special cases. In general, we show that plausible preference restrictions are not sufficient to generate unambiguous supply results, a result that should come as no surprise since it is the same situation that confronts the investigator in most household allocation problems. Therefore, policy prescriptions in this area, as in the tax incentive area do not follow from …

Critical Factors Affecting Success Of Retraining Welfare Recipients, David P. Seibert

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Investment In Human Capital And The Nonwhite-White Unemployment Differential, Curtis Lloyd Gilroy

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This is a study of the differential incidence of unemployment between white and nonwhite male workers in the U.S. labor force. The general question to which this study addresses itself is to what extent can the higher incidence of nonwhite compared to white unemployment at a point in time and over a period of time be explained by differences in certain characteristics of the respective labor forces.

To measure and compare the relative unemployment burdens of white and nonwhite workers, the unemployment differential will be investigated. The differential can be of two types: the relative differential, denoted by the ratio …

A Cash Flow Theory Of Conglomerate Mergers, Edward Barry Leviton

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

There have been three periods of intensive merger activity in the United States. The first merger movement of major significance occurred at the turn of the century, and its peak years were between 1898 and 1902. This early merger movement in many respects was the most significant of the merger waves. It saw the transformation of many industries, initially characterized by many small and medium sized firms, into those in which one or a few very large firms dominated. Nelson has said that in this period the pattern of concentration characteristic of twentieth-century American business was formed and matured. The …

Transformation Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Letter from Walter Daum discussing various points in Shaikh’s Transformation paper (January 9, 1973).

• Letter from Ira Gollobin regarding Shaikh’s doctoral thesis (February 23, 1973).

• Letter from Howard Wachtel discussing Shaikh’s paper and its possible inclusion in his book (October 18, 1973).

• Letter from A. Zauberman thanking Shaikh for sending him a copy of his paper (June 14, 1973).

• Letter from Ronald L. Meek thanking Shaikh for sending his paper and commenting on their similar interpretations of Marx’s value theory (May 21, 1973).

• Letter from Bertell thanking Shaikh for sending his article and discussing a lunch meeting …

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General Equilibrium Theory And International Trade, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

This volume of Takashi Negishi's excellent essays in the theory of international trade underlines two major phenomena in this field: i) the displacement of the MarshalJian partialequilibriμm tools of analysis (now to be found only in the old-fashioned textbooks) by the general-equilibrium analysis of Mill, Marshan and Edgeworth which culminated in the major work of Meade and others; and ii) the emergence of a creative and ingenious school of Japanese international trade theorists in the last decade (of which Negishi is one of the more eminent members) which has virtually shifted the center of gravity in trade-theoretic research from England …

Fiscal Federalism: Program Budgeting And The Multilevel Governmental Setting, F. Gregory Hayden

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to determine what theoretical and policy conclusions are consistent with the orthodox theory of social and merit wants, the treatment of distribution as a component of efficiency, and a Planning-Programming-Budgeting System when they are placed in a federalist setting with states’ rights and local autonomy. The conclusion is that neither matching nor equalization grants should be used in intergovernmental fiscal relations and that use of traditional intergovernmental fiscal devices will not assure success of a programmed budget.

External Economies And Competitive Equilibrium, George A. Hay, John J. Mcgowan

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In an article published in 1955, Murray Kemp analyzed the case for interference with the competitive allocation of resources when external economies of production are present. In the specific model we are interested in—where the costs of any one producer's operations are affected by the total output of all producers of the same product—Kemp attempted to show that where entry into the industry is closed (although the industry is otherwise perfectly competitive), "there can always be found a subsidy, either on the product or on a particular factor, which will be a sufficient incentive to firms to produce an …

The Distribution Of Nonagricultural Labor Incomes In Communist And Capitalist Nations, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of "International Division Of Labour In Open Economies: With Special Regard To Cmea" By T. Kiss, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Security Price Forecasting, Ralph J. Nebbia

Graduate Thesis Collection

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new and practical technique for improving the art of forecasting security price movements. The desire to forecast stock market fluctuations have led many analysts to employ different predicting tools.

The Greater Albuquerque Business Index_May 18 1972, Daniel M. Slate

Historic Publications

THE GREATER ALBUQUERQUE BUSINESS INDEX.

International Comparison Of Concentration Ratios, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Property Institutions And Economic Development: Some Empirical Tests, Frederic L. Pryor

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Fur And Skin Trade Of Colonial Virginia, Shirley-Virginia Parrish

History Theses & Dissertations

Abstract unavailable.

Entrepreneurship And Economic Development: A Critique Of The Theory, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Political Science Faculty Publications

This thesis is a criticism of the "entrepreneurial school" of economic development, which contends that a major cause of underdevelopment in the Third World is the poor "entrepreneurial spirit" in these areas. The entrepreneurial spirit consists of certain values and behaviour which it is presumed existed in the West at the time of its development. To test the validity of this theory empirical evidence on entrepreneurs is examined; this evidence includes historical data on the West, especially the United States and France, and twenty-one area studies of entrepreneurs in the Third World. The evidence suggests that there is little difference …

An Assessment Of The Validity Of The Unemployment Variable As A Determinant Of Changes In Money Wages In Wage-Estimation Models, James L. Jennings

Economics Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Indiana State University Financial Report 1972, Indiana State University

Financial Reports

No abstract provided.

W. S. U'Ren And The Fight For Government Reform And The Single Tax: 1908-1912, David Elvin Lindstrom

Dissertations and Theses

In the study of Oregon politics, the importance of developments in the early twentieth century have been largely overlooked by popular historians. As a result, many have lost the perspective of the sweeping reforms that reformers presented to Oregon's electorate. Another complicating factor is that voters dealing with the issues during the period had such disparaging attitudes towards some of the reforms, that no thought was given to preserving their memory for future generations. In addition, the personal papers of W. S. U'Ren, Oregon's leading reformer, are not available. This makes perspective even more difficult. Therefore, the research problem is …

Regulation And Pricing In Public Utilities, Ann Kaiser

Master's Essays (1922 - )

The following paper is a study of the regulation and pricing of public utilities in the United States. A study of all the different ways to determine price in each public utility would amount to an undertaking of enormous proportions.

Book Review. The Effectiveness Of International Decisions And Foreign Development Lending -- Legal Aspects, A. A. Fatouros

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Executive Appraisal: Fact Or Fantasy, Daniel John Urban

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Evaluation of every employee by his superior at some time or another is a fact of life today. These appraisals take many different forms and serve an endless array of purposes. This paper was undertaken to see how well these appraisals, evaluations, ratings, and reviews actually serve the purpose for which they were created. All systems reviewed contained faults whether inherent in the system itself or in the application and administration of the system. The main faults were the using of readily available material whether or not it bore any relation to what was trying to be measured and the …

A Theory Of Household Behavior Under Uncertainty, John Heineke, M. K. Block

Economics

In this paper we are concerned with the effects of uncertainty on household decisions. In particular we are interested in the response of a single economic agent's factor allocations to "changes in the amount of uncertainty" with which the agent's beliefs regarding his income are held. For problems of choice under uncertainty the recent work of Arrow [1], Sandmo [9, 10, 11], Leland [5, 6], Stiglitz [12], and others clearly testifies to the power of the expected utility hypothesis as an analytical framework. In what follows two models are examined in which the agent is assumed to be confronting a …

Determinants Of Residential Housing Starts, S. Christopher Baird

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Regulation Q And The Stance Of Monetary Policy, Paul John Plath

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Advertising On Inter-Industry Growth Rates, Norman K. Plummer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

State Of New Mexico Economic Development Profile: Farmington, New Mexico Development Department, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

The economic report for the community of Farmington in the state of New Mexico provides data on several sections including but not limited to, tourism, education, labor, population and housing.

State Of New Mexico Economic Development Profile: Las Vegas, Lordsburg, Los Alamos, Los Lunas, Loving, And Lovington, New Mexico Development Department, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

The economic report for the communities of Las Vegas, Lordsburg, Los Alamos, Los Lunas, Loving, and Lovington in the state of New Mexico provides data on several sections including but not limited to, tourism, education, labor, population and housing.

The Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem In The Multi-Commodity Case, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

Ronald Jones, in his seminal paper (1957) on Heckscher-Ohlin theory, has argued that, for the case of two countries, two factors, and several commodities, the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem would remain valid in the following weak sense: "Ordering the commodities with respect to the capital-labor ratios employed in production is to rank them in order of comparative advantage. Demand conditions merely determine the dividing line between exports and imports; it is not possible to break the chain of comparative advantage by exporting, say, the third and fifth commodities and importing the fourth when they are ranked by factor intensity" (p. 85).

It …