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Neuroeconomics: Constructing Identity, John B. Davis
Neuroeconomics: Constructing Identity, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
The paper asks whether neuroeconomics will make instrumental use of neuroscience to adjudicate existing disputes in economics or be more seriously transformed by neuroscience in ways that might transform economics. The paper pursues the question by asking how neuroscience constructs an understanding of individuals as whole persons. The body of the paper is devoted to examining two approaches: Don Ross's neurocellular approach to neuroeconomics and Joseph Dumit's cultural anthropological science organization approach. The accounts are used to identify boundaries on single individual explanations. Within that space Andy Clark's external scaffolding view and Nathaniel Wilcox's socially distributed cognition view are employed.
Return To College Education Revisited: Is Relevance Relevant?, Olga Yakusheva
Return To College Education Revisited: Is Relevance Relevant?, Olga Yakusheva
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
This study examines whether the size of the college earnings premium varies depending on the quality of the match between an individual’s degree field and his/her occupation. The study uses the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to obtain a new measure of the quality of occupational match for a sample of 2268 young adults with post-secondary degrees from the restricted use High School and Beyond (1980/92) data. The study finds that people whose occupations better match their degree fields earn significantly higher returns to post-secondary schooling. This result is robust to controlling for an extensive set of pre-existing differences among individuals, …
A Spatial Analysis Of Aggregate And Industry-Level Fdi In China, Shalendra Sharma, Miao Grace Wang, M. C. Sunny Wong
A Spatial Analysis Of Aggregate And Industry-Level Fdi In China, Shalendra Sharma, Miao Grace Wang, M. C. Sunny Wong
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Valuing Environmental Quality: A Space-Based Strategy, John I. Carruthers, David E. Clark
Valuing Environmental Quality: A Space-Based Strategy, John I. Carruthers, David E. Clark
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
This paper develops and applies a space-based strategy for overcoming the general problem of deriving the implicit demand for nonmarket goods. It focuses specifically on evaluating one form of environmental quality, distance from Environmental Protection Agency designated environmental hazards, via the single-family housing market in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. A spatial two-stage hedonic price analysis is used to: (i) estimate the marginal implicit price of distance from air release sites, hazardous waste generators, hazardous waste handlers, superfund sites, and toxic release sites; and (ii) estimate a series of implicit demand functions describing the …
Review Of Economics, Culture And Social Theory, John B. Davis
Review Of Economics, Culture And Social Theory, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Trust In Others: Does Religion Matter?, Joseph P. Daniels, Marc Von Der Ruhr
Trust In Others: Does Religion Matter?, Joseph P. Daniels, Marc Von Der Ruhr
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of, a linkage among religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed. By allowing for an attendance effect, disaggregating Protestant denominations, and using a more extensive data set, probit models of the General Social Survey (GSS), 1975 through 2000, show that black Protestants, Pentecostals, fundamentalist Protestants, and Catholics, trust others less than individuals who do not claim a preference for a particular denomination. For conservative denominations the effect of religion is through affiliation, not attendance. In contrast, liberal Protestants trust …
Uncertainty And Identity: A Post Keynesian Approach, John B. Davis
Uncertainty And Identity: A Post Keynesian Approach, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
Marshall’s asset equilibrium model provides a way of
explaining the identity of entrepreneurs. Keynes adopted this model but
transformed it when he emphasized the short-period and volatile
character of long-term expectations. This entails a view of entrepreneur
identity in which radical uncertainty plays a central role. This in turn
deepens the post Keynesian view of uncertainty as ontological in that
entrepreneurs’ survival plays into their behavior. This paper explores
this role-based view of individual identity and uses the analysis to
comment on Keynes’s ideas for the socialization of investment and
euthanasia of the rentier in the last chapter of The …
Review Of Keynes And Macroeconomics After 70 Years: Critical Assessments Of The General Theory, John B. Davis
Review Of Keynes And Macroeconomics After 70 Years: Critical Assessments Of The General Theory, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Foreign Direct Investment And Domestic Investment In The Host Country: Evidence From Panel Study, Miao Wang
Foreign Direct Investment And Domestic Investment In The Host Country: Evidence From Panel Study, Miao Wang
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
This article examines the impact of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on host countries’ domestic investment. Utilizing data from 50 countries over the period of 1970 to 2004, we find that inward FDI has a negative contemporaneous effect on domestic investment, while the cumulative effect of FDI over time tends to be positive. In addition, we separately study FDI in Developed Countries (DCs) and Less Developed Countries (LDCs). The effect of contemporaneous FDI on domestic investment is negative in DCs, and the cumulative effect of FDI is neutral. Strong evidence suggests that the contemporaneous effect of FDI on domestic investment …