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Empirical Study On Employee's Ownership, Anthony Chuks Ibida

Theses

Employees Ownership in the United States has been in existence for many years and it seemed to be a utopian idea of no real consequence to the general public. Now employee ownership has gone a drastic change and it has become a major focus of media attention, and we are observing an extra ordinarily rapid increase in interest and involvement among practitioners in law, banking, and organizational consulting, along with growing government interest.

As the name indicates employees ownership or worker cooperative firms have a long but spotty history in the United States. Some researchers traced over eight hundred firms …

New Mexico County Profiles_05-22-1987, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

The report compiles county-level data from federal, state, and local sources and presents standardized profiles covering population characteristics, employment, income, poverty, education, housing, agriculture, mining, finance, construction, tourism, taxation, and projected population growth through 2005.

New Mexico County Profiles_05-22-1987, University Of New Mexico Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

BBER Publications

This volume provides detailed socioeconomic profiles for New Mexico and each of its counties, including demographic characteristics, population projections, employment, income, education, government finance, tourism, agriculture, mining, housing, and economic activity indicators. Designed as a planning and research resource, it compiles data from numerous state and federal agencies into a standardized county-by-county format.

New Mexico Review And Outlook_05-19-1987, Brian Mcdonald

BBER Publications

This report reviews New Mexico’s economic conditions in the mid‑1980s, highlighting employment trends, sectoral performance, demographic changes, and the growing influence of federal spending and energy markets on the state’s long‑term outlook. It provides a concise statistical and interpretive snapshot of the state’s economic trajectory.

Farmer Experience With Conservation Tillage, Herbert R. Allen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

German-Czech Conflict In Cisleithania: The Question Of The Ethnographic Partition Of Bohemia, 1848-1919, Nicholas Aldorde

Dissertations and Theses

Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, the former Crownlands of Austria-Hungary which now make up the western half of Czechoslovakia, had for centuries a population mixture of 40% German, 60% Czech. The national reawakening of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pitted the majority Czechs against their German minority master. This, coupled with the social upheavals caused by the industrial revolution, brought Czechs and Germans in Bohemia to center stage in the nationality conflict in the multinational Empire.

Metropolitan Report - May 14, 1987, Division Of Business And Economic Research, College Of Business Administration, University Of New Orleans

UNO Metropolitan Report (1986-2017)

No abstract provided.

How To Get Off The Back Of A Tiger, Or, Do Initial Conditions Constrain Deposit Insurance Reform, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D., Claudia Campbell

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

Prepared for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, "Merging Commercial and Investment Banking."

Knightian Decision Theory, Part Ii: Intertemporal Problems, Truman F. Bewley

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The theory of choice proposed in “Knightian Decision Theory, Part I” is here applied to intertemporal problems. An analogue of dynamic programming called maxmin programming is developed. Also, it is shown that detailed contingent planning may not be needed in order to achieve maximality, a program being maximal if no other program is preferred to it. In certain circumstances, a maximal program can be achieved by making a finite calculation in each period. This calculation ignores distant future states and could also ignore unlikely contingencies. A decision maker making such calculations would behave much like a satisficer.

Implementational Issues And Computational Performance Solving Applied General Equilibrium Models With Slcp, Thomas Rutherford

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper reports on an implementation of Mathiesen’s sequential method for solving applied general equilibrium models. In this approach, the underlying nonlinear complementarity problem is solved by successive linearization. The paper discusses model formulation, implementation and performance. Several test problems and empirical models are used to evaluate efficiency and robustness.

The Coptic Community In Egypt, Amany El-Khateeb

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Study Of America's Adopt-A-Horse (Or Burro) Program, Peter A. Lawson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study analyzes aspects of Wild and Free-Roaming Horse and Burro adoptions. After primary data are gathered by a questionnaire sent to wild horse and burro adopters, various statistics, and regression test results are reported, which indicate that the demand for the wild horses is multifaceted and that the wild animals are not a homogeneous product. The results overwhelmingly indicate that young and female horses are preferred by the majority of adopters. This finding had supportive evidence in both a price determination model as well as adopters' responses to the survey that was conducted as a part of this study. …

An Analysis Of Some Effects Of China's Foreign Trade On Its Economy, Wei Jiang

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The central planning board in China issues orders to each economic agent mainly through two channels, ministries and provinces. These orders become the targets for every specific economic agent. The orders to the Foreign Trade Ministry become the targets for all import and export corporations, provincial foreign trade bureaus, and branch corporations. The activities of all branch corporations comprise China's foreign trade business.

The activities of the foreign trade sector are certainly influenced by features of the entire economy such as the domestic fixed-price system and labor immobility. These factors not only constrain foreign trade activities but also cause inefficiency …

Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity Under Common Property Environment And Uncertainty: An Interpretive Analysis, Soumendra N. Ghosh

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The issue of natural resource scarcity has so far been addressed in the literature on the basis of various measures such as the unit cost of production, the relative market price, and the shadow price of a resource. Although it has been recognized that there exists some kind of jointness (sometimes inseparable) between an extractible resource and its surrounding environment, none of the measures, either theoretically or empirically, have included this concern.

In order to extract and use a natural resource (e.g., coal) the environment (air, water, etc.) must also be used as a repository of the discharged wastes (e.g., …

Population Household Size Employment_May 1987, Brian Mcdonald, John Temple, Lynn Bodin Wombold

BBER Publications

This report analyzes population trends, household size patterns, and employment projections, providing baseline data intended to support regional planning in New Mexico during the late 20th century.

Employment Security Department_May 1987, New Mexico Employment Security Department

Historic Publications

ANNUAL MANPOWER PLANNING REPORT FOR NEW MEXICO, 1987.

Equilibria In Exchange Economies With A Countable Number Of Agents, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Donald J. Brown, Owen Burkinshaw

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The existence of equilibria is established in an overlapping generations exchange economy, where each generation lives for two periods and the commodity space is the positive cone of an infinite dimensional Riesz space. In particular, we establish the existence of equilibria in the stochastic overlapping generations model, i.e., we establish the existence of equilibria when the commodity space in each period is L ∞ equipped with the Mackey topology τ( L ∞ , L 1 ).

South Dakota Agricultural Producers Reduce Debt, Brain H. Schmiesing

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

The New York Free Banking Era: Deregulation Or Reregulation?, Andrew J. Economopoulos

Business and Economics Faculty Publications

The deregulation of the banking market is a frequently debated policy issue. Proponents of deregulation claim that free market forces would improve market efficiency. The basis for their argument is grounded in the work and tenets of Adam Smith. Deregulation opponents claim that a bank market left unfettered would disrupt the financial market; bank mismanagement, failures, and panics would pervade the market and cause distrust of the banking system . Opponents of deregulation derive their beliefs from actual historical experiences rather than theory . Many opponents point to a period of American banking history, called the Free Banking Era (1838-1863), …

Once More The Minimum Wage, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

No abstract provided.

A Proposal To Eliminate Welfare, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

One of the ongoing columns “The Economy from the Not-so Ivory Tower.”

Distributional Analysis Of Portfolio Choice, Philip H. Dybvig

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We compare trading in a market with receiving some particular consumption bundle, given increasing state-independent preferences and complete markets. The analysis focuses on the distributional price of the particular bundle. The distributional price is the price of the cheapest utility-equivalent bundle sold in the market. The distributional price is determined by the distributional functions of the outside bundle and the state price density. Simple portfolio performance measures illustrate the value of the approach. Unlike CAPM-based measures, these measures are valid even when superior information is the source of superior performance.

Semiparametric Estimation Of Monotonic And Concave Utility Functions: The Discrete Choice Case, Rosa L. Matzkin

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper develops a semiparametric method for estimating the nonrandom part V ( ) of a random utility function U ( v ,ω) – V ( v ) + e (ω) from data on discrete choice behavior. Here v and ω are, respectively, vectors of observable and unobservable attributes of an alternative, and e(ω) is the random part of the utility for that alternative. The method is semiparametric because it assumes that the distribution of the random parts is know up to a finite-dimensional parameter θ, while not requiring specification of a parametric form for V ( ). The nonstochastic …

Inference In Econometric Models With Structural Change, Donald W.K. Andrews, Ray C. Fair

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper extends the classical Chow (1960) test for structural change in linear regression models to a wide variety of nonlinear models, estimated by a variety of different procedures. Wald, Lagrange multiplier-like, and likelihood ratio-like test statistics are introduced. The results allow for heterogeneity and temporal dependence of general unifying results for estimation and testing in nonlinear parametric econometric models.

Econometric Modeling As Information Aggregation, Ray C. Fair, Robert J. Shiller

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The information contained in the forecasts from two econometric models can be compared by regressing the actual change in the variable forecasted on the two forecasts of the change. We do such comparisons in this paper, where the forecasts are based only on information through the period prior to the first period of the forecast. If a model’s forecast is statistically significant in such a regression, we conclude that the model captures information not in the other model whose forecast is also included in the regression. The models studied include the Fair model, vector autoregressive (VAR) models estimated by ordinary …

Measuring Market Power In U.S. Industry, Matthew D. Shapiro

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Non-competitive conduct can be assessed by estimating the size of the markup or Lerner index achieves in a market. The markup implies a price elasticity of demand faced by the representative firm. For a given markup, non-competitive conduct that is insensitive tot he value of the monopoly. To implement this measure, both the firm’s and the market elasticities of demand must be estimated. Hall shows how to estimate the markup, and hence the elasticity faced by the firm, from the cyclical behavior of productivity. To estimate the market elasticity, an instrumental variables procedure exploiting a covariance restriction between productivity shocks …

The Effect Of Economic Events On Votes For President: 1984 Update, Ray C. Fair

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In previous work I have developed an equation explaining votes for president in the United States that seems to have a remarkable predictive ability. The purpose of this paper is to update this equation through the 1984 election and then use it to predict the 1988 election.

The Economic Plateau, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Overall, the American economy in the late 1980s looks upbeat. But American business and labor still need to take the necessary actions for a stronger economy in the 1990s.

Takeovers And Stockholders: Winners And Losers, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Stephen Vogt

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

When a takeover or merger is being considered, boards of directors are responsible for making decisions that best benefit their shareholders.

The Role Of Railroad Contracts In Shipping South Dakota Grain, Charles E. Lamberton

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.