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Pop Sraffa, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1981, February 12). Marxist critique of Keynes–Sraffa tradition, including effective demand [Handwritten notes]. Manuscript in possession of the author.

• Anonymous. (1991). [Introduction to a book on long waves, with handwritten note “Ben (?) 1991”] [Annotated page]. Manuscript in possession of the author.

• Kurz, H. D., & Salvadori, N. (1992). Morishima on Ricardo. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 16(4), 421–437. Oxford University Press. [Copy with handwritten dedication to Shaikh and Diana].

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of money, prices, and competition [Handwritten notes]. Manuscript in possession of the author.

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Shortest Integer Vectors, Herbert E. Scarf, David F. Shallcross

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Let A be a fixed integer matrix of size m by n and consider all b for which the body is full dimensional. We examine the set of shortest non-zero integral vectors with respect to the family of norms. We show that the number of such shortest vectors is polynomial in the bit size of A , for fixed n . We also show the existence, for any n , of a family of matrices M for which the number of shortest vectors has as a lower bound a polynomial in the bit size of M of the same degree …

Tests Of Specification For Parametric And Semiparametric Models, Yoon-Jae Whang, Donald W.K. Andrews

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper provides a general framework for constructing specification tests for parametric and semiparametric models. The paper develops new specification tests using the general framework. In particular, specification tests for semiparametric partially linear regression, sample selection, and censored regression models are introduced. The results apply in time series and cross-sectional contexts. The method of proof exploits results concerning the stochastic equicontinuity or weak convergence of normalized sums of stochastic processes.

Who Benefits From State And Local Economic Development Policies?, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Press

Bartik reviews evidence on whether state and local policies affect job growth. He then presents empirical data supporting the intentions of such programs, showing that job growth may lead to a number of positive long-term effects including: lower unemployment, higher labor force participation, higher real estate values, and better occupational opportunities. He also shows that the earnings gains to disadvantaged groups outweigh the resulting increased real estate values for property owners, and concludes by saying that regional competition for jobs may actually be a benefit for the nation as a whole.

Social Wage Us Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A., PhD., & Tonak, E. A. (1987). The welfare state and the myth of the social wage. In The imperiled economy, Book I: Macroeconomics from a left perspective. Publisher details not identified.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 11). Revisions for OECD studies [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 13). Revisions to Shaikh/Tonak paper [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, September 11). Country studies [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Labor benefit, tax rates, unemployment rate, and real wages [Printed graphs]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, December 22). Social …

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Papers On Unemployment And Real Wages, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1991). Notes on Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman’s Unemployment, with annotated pages from the book [Unpublished handwritten notes].

• Anyadike-Danes, M., & Godley, W. (1989, June). Real wages and employment: A skeptical view of some recent empirical work. Manchester School, 57(2), 133–154. Manchester University Press.

Long Waves, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Notes on Dlinnye volny v ekonomike [Handwritten notes on Menshikov and Klimenko’s work; unpublished manuscript].

• Singer, D. (2003, June 10). Note from David Singer enclosing an annotated bibliography on long waves [Email communication].

• Singer, D. (n.d.). Annotated bibliography on long waves [Unpublished manuscript].

• Knowles, C. A. (1991, Spring). Nikolai Kondratieff and the long economic cycles in capitalist economies: Their validation, predictive ability, and explanation. Conference: A Journal of Philosophy. Publisher details not identified.

• Knowles, C. A. (1990). Tables of wholesale commodity price index and WCPI standardized for …

Racial Differences In Adult Labor Force Transition Trends, Michael Seeborg, Mark Israel

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Comment On Itoh, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• A document titled Comment on 'The value controversy reconsidered' by Makoto Itoh (1991, June 19)

Xrs, Current (Data), Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Handwritten cover notes titled "XR's: Current Data" (January 1992)

• Handwritten notes titled "Meaning of Sykes AR(1) XR equations" (April 4, 1991)

• Summary titled "Competition and Exchange Rates Summary of A. Shaikh's article"

• Email from Mike Inskeep regarding Shaikh's articles (November 13, 1991)

• Page 9 from an unidentified document concerning foreign funding in India

• Yonel Letellier's data output with handwritten notes (May 9, 1991)

• Two regression tables titled "TABLE #1 CLASSICAL HYPOTHESIS (1960-1988)" and "TABLE #2 PPI HYPOTHESIS (1960-1988)" (April 30, 1991)

• Crockett, A. (1981). Determinants of exchange rate movements: A review. Finance & Development, 18(1), 33–37

• Graphs comparing ln …

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Progress Of Economic Reform In Eastern Europe, Jeffrey Sachs

Clemens Lecture Series

No abstract provided.

Enrollment Forecasting At Sinclair Community College, Scott David O'Bryant

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

Sinclair Community College, like all institutions of higher education, has tremendous need for accurate enrollment forecasts. Until recently, using a combination of forecasting tools, the forecasts generated by the Office of Institutional Planning and Research (IPR) have been quite adequate. Recently, however, the accuracy of the enrollment predictions has waned considerably. In an effort to reverse this trend, it was decided to add another, previously untried, forecasting method to the IPR arsenal: Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averages, or ARIMA.

ARIMA models are a time series forecasting tool developed by Box and Jenkins in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After careful …

Similarities And Differences In The Adult Learner: A Comparison Of Student Perceptions Motivations And Needs By Age Cohort, Joan Elizabeth Patten

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The majority of literature dealing with the adult learner concept revolves around teaching methodologies or learning capabilities. While there is some literature on motivation in adult learners, the general assumption is that all those over the age of 25 are similarly motivated and share common perceptions.

To determine whether student perceptions, motivations and needs could be distinguished by age categories, survey results of 936 students at Sinclair Community College were categorized within 4 age cohorts. Results indicate that: 1) both traditionally-aged students as well as non-traditional students share some common perceptions; and 2) cohorts within the non-traditional student population may …

Promoting Export Activity In The Dayton Economy, Deena Lyn Will

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The development and implementation of a mail questionnaire proved to satisfy the goal of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce to promote export activity in the region. The results of the survey indicate that over one third of the respondents to the survey are actively engaged in exporting. The identification on these firms will allow the Chamber to more effectively promote their goods and services abroad.

The manipulation of the results obtained from the survey will be used to publish a listing of companies in the Dayton area engaged in exporting goods and services to foreign countries. The resultant export …

U.S. Technology Transfer To China: Problems And Perspectives, Yalan Jiang

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

The subject of technology transfer has been an area of wide-range interest and significance for many years, especially in the recent past, as Japan and the Newly Industrialized Nations (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) have set themselves as successful examples in area of technology transfer. Recognizing the importance of technology transfer to its national economic development, China started the unprecedented movement of technology transfer along with its economic reform in the late 1970s.

Great achievements have been made in the area of agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense. However, many problems have emerged during the process of …

Automation Of The Directorate Of Research And Development Contracting At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Anthony W. Everidge

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This thesis examines the automation of the Directorate of Research and Development Contracting at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Background information on the Directorate is given along with the previous methods of producing contractual documents. The central problem of the thesis is to determine if the benefits of automating the Directorate outweigh the costs. A cost benefit analysis was used to make this determination. Each cost and each benefit is discussed in great detail along with the methodology used to measure each particular cost and benefit. The results of the study showed that the net present value of all benefits was …

The Bears And Honey Pots: The Savings And Loan Debacle, Margaret Landman

Bridgewater Review

The recent experiences of the savings and loan industry, with the mounting insolvencies and losses, are giving the world a first-hand example of how a financial system should not operate. A number of economic factors, combined with a series of regulatory errors, have contributed to the substantial difficulties encountered by savings and loan institutions during the last decade.

Rational Choice: The Contrast Between Economics And Psychology, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

Rational Choice--the published record of a conference on economics and psychology--frames the issues as a contest between economic theory and the falsifying evidence from psychology. According to a third perspective, that of experimental economics, most standard theory provides a correct first approximation in predicting motivated behavior in laboratory experimental markets, but the theory is incomplete, particularly in articulating convergence processes in time and in ignoring decision cost. This view has roots in the work of Herbert Simon and Sidney Siegel, but it is not plainly represented in contemporary research in economic pyschology.

Off-Floor Trading, Disintegration And The Bid-Ask Spread In Experimental Markets, Joseph Campbell, Shawn Lamaster, Vernon L. Smith, Mark Van Boening

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

This article uses experimental methods to establish that greater uncertainty in the environment increases the naturally emerging bid-ask spread in double-auction trading. The opportunity to trade off floor is then introduced. Off-floor trading is greater in the environment with a wider bid-ask spread, increases with block trading, and increases still more with increasing subject experience. Finally, we find that the preponderance of off-floor trades are inside the bid-ask spread, supporting the hypothesis that a motive for such trades is to split privately the gain represented by the bid-ask spread without revealing publicly a willingness to make price concessions.

Public Policy Towards Unemployment: 1937-1941, Jill M. Hemphill

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

The following essay will examine what type of public policy, if any, was pursued to combat the high levels of unemployment that plagued the American economy from early 1937 until the signing of the Lend Lease Act in 1941. The writer will attempt to explain why Roosevelt failed to bring unemployment to a more acceptable level during these years. The following chapters include detailed analysis of federal relief programs, the isolationist movement, fiscal and monetary policy, all vital components of public policy towards unemployment.

Grievance Committee, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• • Collection includes an interoffice memorandum to Professor Shaikh from Alice Amsden regarding faculty promotion, dated October 10, 1991.

  • Typed document titled "Grievance Committee Proposal."

  • Letter from Judith Friedlander to Joan Lucariello concerning the school’s grievance procedures, dated September 8, 1994.

  • Memo from Joan Lucariello to Dean Judith Friedlander on grievance procedures, dated September 21, 1994.

  • Letter from Ira Katznelson to the grievance committee regarding procedures, dated September 19, 1986.

  • Handwritten notes related to grievance procedures.

  • Letter from Professor Shaikh to Judith Friedlander titled "Report of the Graduate Faculty Grievance Committee on the case of Thomas Palley," dated July 8, 1998. …

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Comment On Robert Gordon Growth Hypothesis, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Comment on Robert Gordon Growth Hypothesis(unpublished manuscript with handwritten annotations and comments), by Anwar Shaikh, PhD, undated.
  • Typed manuscript discussing Robert Gordon’s “End of Growth” hypothesis, including technological revolutions, productivity growth, inequality, profitability, industrial policy, long-wave theory, and international competition.
  • Handwritten annotations and marginal comments by Anwar Shaikh, PhD, on technological change, productivity growth, inequality, labor institutions, and long-wave economic theory.
  • References to Gordon’s arguments on productivity growth and technological revolutions in the United States economy.
  • Discussion of Kondratiev waves, Schumpeterian growth theory, and David Gordon’s social structures of accumulation framework.
  • Farewell to the Working Class: …

The Macroeconomics Of The Unofficial Foreign Exchange Market In Tanzania, D. Kaufmann, Stephen A. O'Connell

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Long Horizon Movements In Exchange Rates: Great Expectations, Minsok Pak

Honors Papers

Results in this paper show that applying specific techniques designed to analyze long run behavior of time series variables provides evidence that long run movements in exchange rates differ from random walks. Long run behavior, for both the DM/$ and Y/$ spot rates, exhibit a rather substantial mean reverting component, a temporary component similar to that found in stock prices (Fama and French [1988]; Poterba and Summers [1988]). That is to say, a divergence of observed market values from fundamental values cannot simply be interpreted as support for models of inefficient markets. Rather, these divergences may be temporary swings away …

The Political Economy Of The Latin American Debt Crisis, Stephen S. Golub

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Section 8 Comp + Fin, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Moore, B. J. (1991). Marx, Keynes, Kalecki and Kaldor on the rate of interest as a monetary phenomenon (Chap. 13) [Excerpt; photocopy]. In E. J. Nell & W. Semmler (Eds.), Nicholas Kaldor and mainstream economics: Confrontation or convergence? (pp. [insert pages if known]). Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Davidson, P. (1991). Money: Cause or effect? Exogenous or endogenous? (Chap. 14) [Excerpt; photocopy]. In E. J. Nell & W. Semmler (Eds.), Nicholas Kaldor and mainstream economics: Confrontation or convergence? (pp. [insert pages if known]). Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Sun Spots And Expectations: W. S. Jevons And The Theory Of Economic Fluctuations, Sandra J. Peart

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

W. Stanley Jevon’s statistical study of periodicity has received much scrutiny (Aldrich1987), but less attention has been given to his theoretical position on economic fluctuations, a circumstance which T.W. Hutchison justly finds surprising considering that “Jevons maintained that aggregate instability, and the distress it caused, presented profoundly serious problems, and devoted some of his most strenuous economic research to their explanation” (Hutchison 1988, p. 6). This paper takes up the challenge to examine the development of Jevon’s though on economic fluctuations from the early 1860s until his death in 1882.

I shall distinguish in what follows between Jevon’s “theory of …

Long Waves Further Research And Revisions, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1991, October). Long waves further research and revisions [Folder cover; unpublished manuscript].

• Malloy, M. (1993, June 16). Correction of Rodgers/BIE stocks used in long wave paper [Handwritten notes; unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1990, November 7). Capital stock data in millions of constant dollars [Annotated computer printouts; unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1990, October 10). Capital in manufacturing [Handwritten notes; unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Old and new gross stocks ratio for structure and equipment [Graphs; unpublished manuscript].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1989, January 12). ROP & capacity …

Carrying A Big Carrot: Linking Multilateral Disarmament And Development Assistance, David A. Koplow, Philip G. Schrag

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article proposes, as a new element of the "liberal internationalism" that should characterize the post-Cold War world, a simultaneous solution to these three problems. The nations of the world should negotiate a series of multilateral agreements to stop the spread of advanced weaponry, and include in each of them, as an overt incentive for developing states to accept the disarmament and verification obligations, provisions that explicitly require the affluent, developed states to make specified monetary and in-kind transfers to the third world parties. The new regime should also provide stronger-than-customary treaty procedures for clarifying ambiguities, adjudicating claims, and resolving …

The Tax Treatment Of Fringe Benefits, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wei-Jang Huang

Upjohn Press

Woodbury and Huang use econometric models to investigate how changes in the tax treatment of fringe benefits can be expected to influence the level of benefits and compensation provided by employers, federal revenues, and income inequality.