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Losers And Losers: Some Demographics Of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms, Andrew Friedson, Thomas J. Kniesner Sep 2011

Losers And Losers: Some Demographics Of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms, Andrew Friedson, Thomas J. Kniesner

Economics - All Scholarship

Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in an asset value sense and that the prime-aged working population is the group most negatively affected by tort reform. Maximum entropy quantile regressions highlight the robustness of our conclusions and reveal that the settlement losses most informative for policy evaluation differ greatly from mean regression estimates.


The Turkish Wage Curve; Evidence From The Household Labor Force Survey, Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu Sep 2011

The Turkish Wage Curve; Evidence From The Household Labor Force Survey, Badi H. Baltagi, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Timur Hulagu

Center for Policy Research

This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005 - 2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for younger, less educated, low experienced workers than for older, more educated and more experienced workers. Another important finding is that …


Child Support As Labor Regulation, Yiyoon Chung Sep 2011

Child Support As Labor Regulation, Yiyoon Chung

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The development of child support policy over the past three decades provides an emblematic case study of the ways in which a new policy that reflects the rise of moral arguments about individual and family responsibility, once established, produces significant consequences for both the economic sphere and political dialogues. I use social control theory to examine a rarely appreciated consequence of child support policies: labor regulation. Particularly, I demonstrate the ways in which the discourse embedded in child support has exalted the importance of work even under the lowest terms, and has deflected public attention away from labor market issues.


The Legal And Regulatory Framework For Non-Interest Banking In Nigeria, A. Atta Sep 2011

The Legal And Regulatory Framework For Non-Interest Banking In Nigeria, A. Atta

Bullion

Non-interest bonking is one of the aspects of Islamic finance. Islamic finance distinguishes itself from conventional finance through its compliance with the principles of Islamic commercial jurisprudence. This paper examines the legal and regulatory framework for non-interest banking in Nigeria. First the paper explored the global development of non-interest banking and goes further to highlight why would non-interest banking be beneficial for Nigeria?; In identifying this, the paper highlighted the main contracts that would be used for transactions which include: Profit sharing agreements, Joint venture agreements, Purchase and resole contracts, investment Certificates, insurance; the current legal and regulatory framework and …


The Role Of Non-Interest Banking In National Economic Development, Hakeem Ishola Mobolaji Sep 2011

The Role Of Non-Interest Banking In National Economic Development, Hakeem Ishola Mobolaji

Bullion

The paper examines non-interest Banking model that operates devoid of interest in lending, financing, deposit-taking and all forms of financial intermediation. Hence, the bank becomes an important financial institution for enhancing growth and development in an economy. The article is divided into five section, the first being the introduction, section two contains the conceptual framework, three highlights non-interest banking in Nigeria and four concludes the paper.


On Equitable Social Welfare Functions Satisfying The Weak Pareto Axioma Complete Characterization, Ram Dubey, Tapan Mitra Sep 2011

On Equitable Social Welfare Functions Satisfying The Weak Pareto Axioma Complete Characterization, Ram Dubey, Tapan Mitra

Department of Economics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The present paper examines the problem of aggregating infinite utility streams with a social welfare function that respects the Anonymity and Weak Pareto Axioms. The paper provides a complete characterization of domains (of the one period utilities) on which such an aggregation is possible. A social welfare function satisfying the Anonymity and Weak Pareto Axioms exists on precisely those domains that do not contain any set of the order typeof the set of positive and negative integers. The criterion is applied to decide on possibility and impossibility results for a variety of domains. It is also used to provide an …


Retail Peso Exchange Rate Discounts And Premia In El Paso, Raúl Muñoz, Michael J. Pisani, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr. Sep 2011

Retail Peso Exchange Rate Discounts And Premia In El Paso, Raúl Muñoz, Michael J. Pisani, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr.

Border Region Modeling Project

This paper studies the exchange rates at which Mexican pesos are accepted for retail purchases in El Paso, Texas. A stratified random sample of 586 participating firms is surveyed to examine two aspects of reverse dollarization in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border region. The first is to determine the percentage of retail businesses in El Paso that accept foreign currency in the form of Mexican pesos. The results suggest that just over 13.1% (77/586) of all retail firms in this market accept pesos, which on average, comprise 4.35% of total sales for those firms. The second is to calculate the …


Mountain Monitor-2nd Quarter 2011, Mark Muro, Kenan Fikri Sep 2011

Mountain Monitor-2nd Quarter 2011, Mark Muro, Kenan Fikri

Mountain Monitor Quarterly

Data through the second quarter of 2011 raise new questions about the pace and certainty of recovery in the Intermountain West. Even places like Denver, Colorado Springs, and Ogden—which only suffered mild setbacks in the early quarters of the recession—have stagnated in the wake of the nation’s worst economic slump since the Great Depression. Output and employment increased hesitantly in eight of the 10 major metros of the Intermountain West in the second quarter while the housing market slumped to new lows everywhere.


Northeast Ohio Manufacturing Brief, Matthew Hrubey Sep 2011

Northeast Ohio Manufacturing Brief, Matthew Hrubey

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.


Economic Impact Of Jumpstart Inc. Portfolio And Client Companies, 2010, Ziona Austrian, Candice Clouse Sep 2011

Economic Impact Of Jumpstart Inc. Portfolio And Client Companies, 2010, Ziona Austrian, Candice Clouse

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

2010 economic impact of JumpStart Inc. Portfolio and Client Companies


Are Benevolent Dictators Altruistic In Groups? A Within-Subject Design, Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Mark Rider Sep 2011

Are Benevolent Dictators Altruistic In Groups? A Within-Subject Design, Lucy F. Ackert, Ann B. Gillette, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Mark Rider

Faculty Articles

We use a within-subject experimental design to investigate whether systematic relationships exist across distinct features of individual preferences: altruism in a two-person context, risk aversion in monetary outcomes, and social preferences in a group context. We find that altruism is related to demographic variables, including years of education, gender, and age. Perhaps most importantly, self allocation in a two-person dictator game is related to social preferences in a group context. Participants who are more generous in a dictator game are more likely to vote against their self-interest in a group tax redistribution game which we interpret to be an expression …


Mediterranean Countries’ Potential Vulnerability To Ocean Acidification, Nathalie Hilmi, Alain Safa Sep 2011

Mediterranean Countries’ Potential Vulnerability To Ocean Acidification, Nathalie Hilmi, Alain Safa

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.


Parametric Social Security Reforms And Saving: Evidence From Turkey, Yigit Aydede Sep 2011

Parametric Social Security Reforms And Saving: Evidence From Turkey, Yigit Aydede

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.


Tribal Diversity, Political Patronage And The Yemeni Decentralization Experiment, Daniel Egel Sep 2011

Tribal Diversity, Political Patronage And The Yemeni Decentralization Experiment, Daniel Egel

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Discretionary Fiscal Policy In Tunisia: A Svar Model Investigation, Sarra Ben Slimane Sep 2011

Effects Of Discretionary Fiscal Policy In Tunisia: A Svar Model Investigation, Sarra Ben Slimane

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.


The Wto Trade Effect, Pao Li Chang, Myoung-Jae Lee Sep 2011

The Wto Trade Effect, Pao Li Chang, Myoung-Jae Lee

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper re-examines the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Together, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification bias, allows general forms of heterogeneous membership effects, and addresses potential hidden selection bias. This is in contrast to most conventional parametric studies on this issue. Our results suggest large GATT/WTO trade-promoting effects that are robust to various restricted matching criteria, alternative GATT/WTO indicators, non-random incidence of positive trade flows, inclusion of multilateral resistance terms, and different matching methodologies.


Money, Bargaining, And Risk Sharing, Nicolas L. Jacquet, Serene Tan Sep 2011

Money, Bargaining, And Risk Sharing, Nicolas L. Jacquet, Serene Tan

Research Collection School Of Economics

We investigate the dual role of money as a self-insurance device and a means of payment when perfect risk sharing is not possible, and when the two roles of money are disentangled. We use a variant of Lagos–Wright (2005) where agents face a risk in the centralized market (CM): in the decentralized market (DM) money’s main role is as a means of payment, while in the CM it is as a self-insurance device. We show that state-contingent inflation rates can improve agents’ ability to self-insure in the CM, thereby improving the terms of trade in the DM. We then characterize …


The Impact Of The "Great Recession" On The Financial Resources Of Nonprofit Organizations, Joseph C. Morreale, Phd Aug 2011

The Impact Of The "Great Recession" On The Financial Resources Of Nonprofit Organizations, Joseph C. Morreale, Phd

Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship

No abstract provided.


Valuing Changes In The Provision Of A Public Good: Empirical Applications In Environmental And Health Economics, German Muchnik Izon Aug 2011

Valuing Changes In The Provision Of A Public Good: Empirical Applications In Environmental And Health Economics, German Muchnik Izon

Economics ETDs

This work applies revealed and stated preference methods for valuing changes in the provision of environmental and health care goods. It estimates non-market benefits to society from protecting forest lands from commercial activities and elicits individuals preference (e.g., willingness to pay) for expanding health care coverage to the uninsured. Health care provision policies can save lives but also increase costs, and may work best when done in combination with behavioral and health interventions that promote healthy life styles such as protecting public forest lands. Chapters 2 and 3 apply the hedonic pricing empirical framework to investigate whether protecting public forest …


Economic Outlook For The Second Quarter, Emmanuel Opoku, Scott Fausti Aug 2011

Economic Outlook For The Second Quarter, Emmanuel Opoku, Scott Fausti

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Study On Ship Investment Risk : Uo Company As An Example, Yichen Chen Aug 2011

Study On Ship Investment Risk : Uo Company As An Example, Yichen Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Chinese Dry Bulk Ship Operators' Operation Mode And Strageties Basis On Voyage Estimation, Jinlong Ke Aug 2011

Analysis Of Chinese Dry Bulk Ship Operators' Operation Mode And Strageties Basis On Voyage Estimation, Jinlong Ke

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Research On The Volume Forecasting And Economic Benefit Analysis Of Developing Inland Water Container Transport In Ningbo Section Of Hang Yong Canal, Di Wu Aug 2011

Research On The Volume Forecasting And Economic Benefit Analysis Of Developing Inland Water Container Transport In Ningbo Section Of Hang Yong Canal, Di Wu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Strategy Research On Competition And Co-Operation Of Shanghai Port And Ningbo Port, Zhouqi Yu Aug 2011

Strategy Research On Competition And Co-Operation Of Shanghai Port And Ningbo Port, Zhouqi Yu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Application Of Portfolio Theory In Shipping Assets And Business For Shipping Company, Ying Zheng Aug 2011

The Application Of Portfolio Theory In Shipping Assets And Business For Shipping Company, Ying Zheng

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Marketing Model Of Freight Forwarding Basing On Information Technology, Yang Li Aug 2011

Marketing Model Of Freight Forwarding Basing On Information Technology, Yang Li

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Research On Competitiveness Of The Shipping Sectors In Pudong Shipping Cluster Of Shanghai International Shipping Center, Yuan Feng Aug 2011

The Research On Competitiveness Of The Shipping Sectors In Pudong Shipping Cluster Of Shanghai International Shipping Center, Yuan Feng

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Research On Capacity Development Plan Of Wenzhou Shipping Company, Xinlei Chen Aug 2011

Research On Capacity Development Plan Of Wenzhou Shipping Company, Xinlei Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Economic Analysis On The Sustainability Of Slow Steaming In Liner Shipping, Zhou Dong Aug 2011

Economic Analysis On The Sustainability Of Slow Steaming In Liner Shipping, Zhou Dong

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Proper Capacity At Jakarta International Container Terminal, Dwipoyono Bagus Aug 2011

Analysis Of Proper Capacity At Jakarta International Container Terminal, Dwipoyono Bagus

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.