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Democracy Autocracy And Macroeconomic Performance In Pakistan, Nasir Iqbal, Sardar Javaid Iqbal Khan, Muhammad Irfan Chani

Muhammad Irfan Chani

Pakistan showed a healthy growth rate of 5.6 percent during the entire history and faced many ups and downs in economic growth due to dramatic changes in political regimes. The literature shows mixed results regarding the impact of autocracy or democracy on economic growth. The aggregate growth of the economy under autocracy remained better as compared to democratic period. Financial indicators show consistent path through out the history of Pakistan. Different trade policies are designed in different regime to run the external sector and the impact of each policy was different.

Toward An Agenda For Behavioral Public Finance, Edward J. Mccaffery, Joel Slemrod

Edward J McCaffery

This essay is about the intersection -- or possible intersection -- between the fields of behavioral economics and public finance, which we call behavioral public finance.

Masking Redistribution (Or Its Absence), Jonathan Baron, Edward J. Mccaffery

Edward J McCaffery

Research has shown that people vary widely in their support or opposition to progressive taxation. We argue here that the perception of progressiveness itself is affected by the nature of the tax system and by the way it is framed, or presented. Experiments conducted over the World-Wide Web and using within-subject design demonstrate that subjects suffer from a range of heuristics and biases in understanding and supporting progressive or redistributive taxation. After reviewing some prior results, we report three new studies. Two of them indicate that people do not sufficiently appreciate the reduction of progressiveness that results from the use …

La Economía Navarra: Productividad Y Competitividad Del Sector Exterior, Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

La economía Navarra es una economía fundamentalmente industrial. Debido a esta característica, Navarra podría sufrir de una manera muy dura los efectos de una deslocalización industrial, más por ejemplo que una región cuya principal fuente de ingresos sea el turismo. Por estas razones, Navarra debe estar especialmente preocupada por la pérdida de productividad de la economía española y, sobre todo, debe plantearse muy seriamente qué medidas tomar para solucionarlo.

Commercialization Decisions And The Economics Of Introduction, Edward Barbier, Duncan Knowler

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

National Bank Notes And Silver Certificates, James B. Thomson, Bruce A. Champ

James Thomson

From 1883 to 1892, the circulation of national bank notes in the United States fell nearly 50 percent. Previous studies have attributed this to supply-side factors that led to a decline in the profitability of note issue during this period. This paper provides an alternative explanation. The decline in note issue was, in large part, demand-driven. The presence of a competing currency with superior eatures caused the public to substitute away from national bank notes.

South Korea, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

An brief introduction and overview to South Korea's economic history touching on reunification attempts with North Korea, chaebols, and product wars with Japan, America, and China.

Importing Exotic Plants And The Risk Of Invasion: Are Market-Based Instruments Adequate?, Duncan Knowler, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Anatomy, Physiology And Psychology Of Desert Destruction, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

Off road vehicle damage continues to expand in the California deserts. This 2004 presentation explores the causes and possible methods for reducing destruction. Protecting and restoring the desert is not a technical problem but an economic/accounting problem.

Measuring The Cost Of Beach Retreat, George R. Parsons, Michael Powell

George Parsons

Coursebook For Economics, A. Studenmund

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.

Economics: Private And Public Choice, A. Studenmund, James Gwartney, Richard Stroup

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.

Domestic Monopoly, Quotas & Contestable Rents, William Rieber

William Rieber

The Effect Of The Financial Aid Package On The Choice Of A Selective College, A. Studenmund, Thomas Slobko, Robert Moore

A. H. Studenmund

This paper examines the effects of financial aid on the decision to attend a selective liberal arts college using data obtained from applicants accepted to Occidental College in 1989. Patterned after a similar empirical investigation by Ehrenberg and Sherman for accepted freshmen at Cornell in 1981, logit probabilities of enrollment equations are estimated based on (1) observable characteristics of the individual students, (2) the net costs of attending Occidental and the various alternative colleges under consideration (including the financial aid packages offered) and (3) other characteristics of these alternative colleges. The results, like Ehrenberg and Sherman's, indicate that relative tuition …

Southern California In The 21st Century, A. Studenmund

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.

The Critical Wage, Unemployment Duration, And Wage Expectations: The Case Of Chile, A. Studenmund, Sholeh Maani

A. H. Studenmund

This study tests the relevance of the job search model to understanding unemployment in developing countries by utilizing a 1982 data set describing unemployed men in Chile. The findings indicate that the model is relevant to a developing country: the job seekers studied based their critical wages on their perceptions of their own productivity, economic resources, and search costs, and they reduced their wage requirements as the duration of their unemployment increased. The authors also show, in the first direct test of this question, that the critical wage and the expected wage are determined jointly and that the expected wage …

Southern California’S Housing Crisis, A. Studenmund

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.

The Free-Fare Transit Experiment, A. Studenmund, D Connor

A. H. Studenmund

This paper summarizes and evaluates the results of experiments which consisted of the elimination of bus fares in off-peak in the cities of Trenton, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado. Because the data in Denver had significant weaknesses, the specific figures cited herein are for Trenton (more accurately, Mercer County, New Jersey); the results of the two experiments were essentially identical, however, so the conclusions drawn are made in a more general context. The evaluation found that the net ridership increase during the demonstration was on the order of 15% (about 45% during the off-peak periods). This included the combined effects …

Post-Tefra Holding Company Strategies, David Randall Jenkins

David Randall Jenkins, Ph.D.

Spurious Correlation And The Incremental Capital-Output Ratio, A. Studenmund

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Sectional Analysis Of The Law Of Declining International Trade, A. Studenmund

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.

Toward A Better Understanding Of The Incremental Capital-Output Ratio, A. Studenmund, J. Vanek

A. H. Studenmund

No abstract provided.