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New Mexico Labor Market Review 12-31-1993, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

This issue of the New Mexico Labor Market Review presents November 1993 employment, unemployment, wage, and economic activity data for New Mexico, its counties, and metropolitan areas.

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xii, No. 1, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies program regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.

The Dynamic Effects Of Agricultural Subsidies In The United States, Harry De Gorter, Eric O'N. Fisher

Economics

This article analyzes the dynamic effects of the farm subsidies in the United States. The subsidies a farmer receives are based upon historical plantings, also called base acreage. It is sometimes optimal for a farmer temporarily not to participate in a program in order to increase future subsidies. The farmer's optimal policy is the solution to a deterministic dynamic program. Farmers with low base acreage opt out of these programs, whereas those with high base acreage participate in them. The article examines aggregate data involving corn, cotton, rice, and wheat during 1987. It shows that these programs increase the output …

Review Of Constitutional Environments And Economic Growth By Gerald W. Scully, Michael L. Marlow

Economics

No Abstract

Tenure Standards And Review Schedule, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Memo from Judith Friedlander regarding tenure standards, dated December 22, 1993.

• Document titled Schedule for Faculty Promotions and for Renewal of Faculty Appointments at End of Term.

Long Range Economic Forecast To 2005, Maine State Planning Office

Maine Collection

Long Range Economic Forecast to 2005

Maine State Planning Office, December 1993 ("Printed under Appropriation Account Number 010 07B 13000 012").

Contents: Preface / Overview / Population Change / Economic Sector Analysis / Appendices

Composition + Clippings, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Data table Aggregate rates of profit and compositions of capital, 1948–89 (December 2, 1993)

• Graphs of r*', r', and rcorp', with pages of references (December 2, 1993)

• Regression results of rcorp (December 2, 1993)

• Notes Earnings, shock values & balance sheets & income statements (December 3, 1990)

• New York Times article Deep, painful descent of Tokyo stocks (November 8, 1993)

• New York Times article VW offers its workers 4-day week or layoffs (October 29, 1993)

• Newspaper ad supporting NAFTA

• New York Times article NAFTA hits intellectuals (November 16, 1993)

• New York Times articles A reshaping of Mexico's …

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Second Order Approximation In The Partially Linear Regression Model, Oliver B. Linton

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We examine the second order properties of various quantities of interest in the partially linear regression model. We obtain a stochastic expansion with remainder o P ( n -2µ ), where µ < 1/2, for the standardized semiparametric least squares estimator, a standard error estimator, and a studentized statistic. We use the second order expansions to correct the standard error estimates for second order effects, and to define a method of bandwidth choice. A Monte Carlo experiment provides favorable evidence on our method of bandwidth choice.

State Of The Economy: Central Bank Of Nigeria Perspective, Ogwuma P. A

Bullion

This paper reviews broadly developments in the real, monetary and financial and external sectors of the economy from 1991 to 1994. It highlights the problems confronting policy makers and put forward some recommendations for consideration. The overall performance of the Nigerian economy during the past three years has been characterized by declining growth rate of GDP in turn a reflection, in the main, of the negative impact of the macroeconomic and financial imbalances. The major factor underlying the adverse movements in macroeconomic variables since 1991 has been the rapid growth in CBN credit for the financing of Federal Government's fiscal …

Restructuring The Nigerian Financial System For Economic Resuscitation., S. B Falegan

Bullion

The article provides a detailed analysis on the stages of restructuring the Nigerian Financial System for Economic Resuscitation during the period of 1985-1993 .

Review Of Policy And Developmental Objectives In Agricultural And Agro-Based Industrial Financing., G.O. Evbuomwan, E.U. Ukeje, F.A. Afelumo

Bullion

This paper reviews and appraise the role of government credit policies in the development of agriculture and agro-based industries in Nigeria. The paper is organized into five sections. Section I reviews the objectives of agricultural development and its role in overall economic development. Section II highlights some major policy measures designed to achieve stated agricultural and agro-industrial development objectives, the major sources of financing and institutions established to support agricultural and agro-based industries are appraised in Section III, while Section IV contains the lessons of experience and implications for policy. Section V summarizes and concludes the paper.

Update - December 1993, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Wages Through the Ages: The Ethics of Physician Income
-- Frontiers in Medicine and Morality - Probed at Second Annual Contributors Convocation

Assorted Materials For The New School And Departments, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

• Graduate faculty student newsletter article titled "The Open Society at the New School and its Critics"

• Memo from Anwar Shaikh to Elizabeth Sanders regarding his trip (12/18/93)

• Letter from Tom Palley to Prof. Shaikh concerning department matters (10/21/93)

• Memo from Judith Friedlander regarding a lawsuit brought by Adamantia Pollis (11/10/93)

• Memo from Judith Friedlander to Shaikh regarding his appointment extension (1/13/94)

• Memo from Elizabeth Brewer titled "Degree Program Enrollments, Fall 1993" (1/12/94)

• Memo from Elizabeth Brewer titled "Spring 1993–Fall 1993 Attrition Report by Ethnicity" (12/21/93)

• Handwritten Economics Department meeting notes (12/8/93, 11/17/93)

• Letter from two students to the department regarding …

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Restructuring The Nigerian Financial Sector For Economic Resuscitation., V.A Odozi

Bullion

This paper examines major developments in the Nigerian financial sector and discusses efforts made so far by the authorities to restructure the sector so as to enhance its efficiency. Major Developments in the Financial Sector The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which was adopted in 1986 was the nation's inevitable response to the suffocating effect of the external debt burden on the Nigerian economy, the escalating fall in agricultural productivity, and undue dependence on petroleum as a foreign exchange earner. The paper noted that the increase in the number of banks resulted in competition for bank deposits and other patronages from …

The Dual Face Of Empowerment: A Model For Cooperative Resource Building, Eric C. Albers, Nancy Paolini

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Homelessness among families with children has become a nationwide problem. Although homelessness is difficult to document, it is estimated that approximately 250,000 to 3,000,000 people in the United States are homeless. Families, which comprise approximately one third of the homeless population, is its fastest growing segment (Mihaly, 1991; National Coalition for the Homeless, 1989; Van Vliet, 1989). This may be a conservative figure. Some of these families often go uncounted because they are part of the "invisible" homeless. They avoid agency contact for fear of losing their children or live in motels, cars, or campgrounds and thereby are not counted …

How Government Reduces Employment, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum shows how the federal government conducts many activities that affect the ability of the private sector to create jobs.

Financial Repression, Inflation And Growth In Egypt, 1974-1991, Abear El Shennawy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Quasi-Flag Of Convenience Shipping: The Wave Of The Future, Rex S. Toh, Sock Yong Phang

Research Collection School Of Economics

Many articles and books have been written to extol the advantages and virtues of flags of convenience (FOC) shipping, argue its necessi ty, and defend the practice. However, from the earliest days there has been opposition to FOC shipping, and lately the disenchantment over this questionable form of open registry has led to the potentially rapid growth of what can be termed as quasi-FOC arrangements. This article will first briefly trace the trend from FOCs to quasi-FOCs, outline the legal framework for regulating international shipping, then discuss the problems, opposition, and legal challenges to open registries. Finally, it will trace …

New Mexico Labor Market Review 11-30-1993, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

This issue of the New Mexico Labor Market Review presents October 1993 employment, unemployment, wage, and economic activity data for New Mexico, its counties, and metropolitan areas.

Long-Term Economic Performance Of Alternative, Conventional, And Reduced Tillage Farming Systems In East-Central And Northeast South Dakota; Grain Prices: Seasonal High May Be Past, Thomas L. Dobbs, Lon D. Henning, Richard Shane

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

Blueprint For Financial Reform, Hyman P. Minsky Ph.D.

Hyman P. Minsky Archive

No abstract provided.

Are Major League Baseball Players Compensated For The Ability To Attract Fans?, Mark Tudor

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A question asked by many baseball fans during the past two decades has been, “Do baseball players really earn multimillion dollars salaries by simply playing a game?” Previous studies have attempted to show that they go generate enough revenue for a given club to justify these exorbitant earnings. In fact, these studies show that, until recently, baseball players have been exploited by owners who have been reaping major profits at the expense of the players.

Most studies utilize fan attendance to generate revenue figures in their respective regression equations. The intent in this paper is to determine if baseball players …

Introducing: The Survey Of Professional Forecasters, Dean D. Croushore

Economics Faculty Publications

Forecasts play a crucial role in the economy. Businesses won't hire workers as readily if they think the economy may go into a recession soon. Long-term interest rates will rise if people in the financial markets expect inflation to increase. And firms are less likely to borrow money for new investment spending today if they think interest rates will soon decline.

Forecasts are important for many decisions, but not many people have the knowledge and experience to forecast economic variables well. It makes sense, therefore, for people to rely on the forecasts of experts. One easy way to get these …

Robust Nonstationary Regression, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper provides a robust statistical approach to nonstationary time series regression and inference. Fully modified extensions of traditional robust statistical procedures are developed which allow for endogeneities in the nonstationary regressors and serial dependence in the shocks that drive the regressors and the errors that appear in the equation being estimated. The suggested estimators involve semiparametric corrections to accommodate these possibilities and they belong to the same family as the fully modified least squares (FM-OLS) estimator of Phillips and Hansen (1990). Specific attention is given to fully modified least absolute deviation (FM-LAD) estimation and fully modified M (FM-M)-estimation. The …

Earnings Inequality In Germany, Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings differentials across education and age groups remained roughly stable, and there was no general widening of earnings differentials within either education …

Indirect Transfers In Trade Among Former Soviet Union Republics: Sources, Patterns, And Policy Responses In The Post-Soviet Period, Lucjan T. Orlowski

WCBT Faculty Publications

Reports on indirect transfers in trade among the former Soviet Union Republics. The Former Soviet Union (FSU) was composed of 15 republics which were very unevenly endowed with human, physical and natural resources. To contain regional imbalances within the Union and to integrate all republics into a tight and centrally commanded division of labour, the central government operated a scheme of vertical fiscal redistribution between the Union budget and the republican budgets. Through this system poorer republics became net receivers of direct transfers and richer republics became net donors. This scheme, which collapsed with the dissolution of the Union in …

How Government Reduces Employment, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Government mandates contribute to reducing the ability of the private sector to create jobs. But ways need to be developed that can offset this.

Does Exchange Rate Variability Depress Trade Flows ? Evidence From Error Correction Models, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

This paper examines the impact of exchange rate volatility on the trade flows of the G-7 countries in the context of a multivariate error-correction model. The error-correction models do not show any sign of parameter instability. The results indicate that the exchange rate volatility has a significant negative impact on the volume of exports in each of the G-7 countries. Assuming market participants are risk averse, these results imply that exchange rate uncertainty causes them to reduce their activities, change prices, or shift sources of demand and supply in order to minimize their exposure to the effects of exchange rate …

New Mexico Labor Market Review 10-29-1993, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review is a monthly publication presenting statistical data and analysis on labor market conditions throughout New Mexico. Issues examine statewide and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labor force estimates, industry activity, wages, occupational demand, and related economic conditions, often accompanied by feature articles on topics affecting the state’s economy. This issue covers September 1993.

Report On A Survey Of Unemployment And Active Labour Market Programmes In Hungary, Martin Godfrey, György LáZáR, Christopher J. O'Leary

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.