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The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 6, Spring 2012

Gettysburg Economic Review

No abstract provided.

Securing Access To Lower-Cost Talent Globally: The Dynamics Of Active Embedding And Field Structuration, Stephan Manning, Joerg Sydow, Arnold Windeler

Management and Marketing Faculty Publication Series

This article examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) shape institutional conditions in emerging economies to secure access to high-skilled, yet lower-cost science and engineering talent. Based on two in-depth case studies of engineering offshoring projects of German automotive suppliers in Romania and China we analyze how MNCs engage in ‘active embedding’ by aligning local institutional conditions with global offshoring strategies and operational needs. MNCs thereby contribute to the structuration of field relations and practices of sourcing knowledge-intensive work from globally dispersed locations.Our findings stress the importance of institutional processes across geographic boundaries that regulate and get shaped by MNC activities.

Take Me Out Of The Ball Game: The Efficacy Of Public Subsidies In The Success Of Professional Sports Stadiums, Jonah Chodosh

CMC Senior Theses

This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the two factors determining the highest likelihood of venue success include multiple tenants and access to mass transit. The analysis demonstrates that public subsidies towards stadiums don’t generate sufficient economic returns, and that successful stadiums can be created without using taxpayer funds.

Between Apprehension And Support: Social Dialogue, Democracy, And Industrial Restructuring In Central And Eastern Europe, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee

Political Science Faculty Publications

This article explores the attitudes of trade union organizations to restructuring and privatization of their enterprises to strategic foreign investors in Central and Eastern Europe's biggest steel producers: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia. Contrary to advocates of insulating technocratic decision-makers from social partners, this article argues that higher quality of democracy and concomitant social dialogue carried out at the level of the sector with union organizations that are autonomous of the government in power (as was the case in the Czech Republic and Poland), are associated with greater restructuring and with support for privatization to strategic foreign investors. In …

The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 4, Spring 2010

Gettysburg Economic Review

No abstract provided.

Loose Pricing And Profit Notes, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Oliveira Martins, J., Scarpetta, S., & Pilat, D. (1996). Mark-up pricing, market structure and the business cycle. OECD Economic Studies, 27, 71–105. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Felipe, J., & McCombie, J. S. L. (1999, February 26). Markups in U.S. industry: What does the recent literature tell us? [First draft]. Unpublished manuscript. Georgia Institute of Technology; Downing College, Cambridge University.
• Bain, J. S. (1951). Relation of profit rate to industry concentration: American manufacturing, 1936–1940. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 65(3), 293–324. Oxford University Press.
• Shaikh, A. (1979, May). Empirical results on concentration and industry profit …

On The Segmentation Of Markets, Nicolas L. Jacquet, Serene Tan

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper endogenizes the market structure of an economy with heterogeneous agents who want to form bilateral matches in the presence of search frictions and when utility is nontransferable. There exist infinitely many marketplaces, and each agent chooses which marketplace to be in: agents get to choose not only whom to match with but also whom they meet with. Perfect segmentation is obtained in equilibrium, where agents match with the first person they meet. All equilibria have the same matching pattern. Although perfect assortative matching is not obtained in equilibrium, the degree of assortativeness is greater than in standard models.

Crises - Current, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Current Crisis: Bibliography (1973–1976), listing articles by Boddy and Crotty, Howard Sherman, Tobolowici, and Joseph Morris on wage-push, inflation, unemployment, monopoly capital, stagflation, and deficit spending from Monthly Review and other journals
• Howard Sherman, “Monopoly Power & Stagflation” (Journal of Economic Issues, XI(2), June 1977, pp. 269–284; 7/77), discussing profit squeeze, raw materials costs, restricted demand, and evidence against high wages causing inflation during contractions, with monopoly vs. competitive sector price behavior data (1929–1938; 1949–1975)
• Howard Sherman (continued, 3/4), noting monopolistic sectors show greater stability of profit rates over the …

Pricing And Profits: Empirical, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Clifton, J. A. (1983). Administered prices in the context of capitalist development. Contributions to political economy, 2, 23–38. Oxford University Press.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: query whether to add to price rigidity section of chapter 9, or to chapter 8]. Unpublished manuscript annotation. Shaikh, A., PhD.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: base price equals normal cost plus attainable profit margin]. Unpublished manuscript annotation. Shaikh, A., PhD.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: base price used to calculate standard return at different volumes]. Unpublished manuscript annotation. Shaikh, A., PhD.
• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). [Handwritten marginal annotation: …

Competition: Sweezy - Kalecki - Steindl, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Note on Steindl (5/23/78)
• Sweezy on Monopoly & Competition
• The Basis of Kalecki’s Theory
• Oligopolistic & Competitive Sectors (6/8/77)
• Steindl (with economic formulas and graphs)

Marxist Theories On Credit And Capital, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This folder includes:
Handwritten note cards titled:

• Concentration & Centralization
• Monopoly, Competition (May 1977)
• Concentration & Rates of Profit (May 20, 1977)
• Monopoly, Competition (May 1977)
• Oligopoly & Question of Reinvestment (June 1977)
• Competition & Oligopoly (June 1977)
• Capital with Higher Rates of Profit and Oligopoly Capital Growth
• Monopoly & Price (on mass of profit and supply adjustment)
• Monopoly & Price (on price rises and surplus profit)
• On Monopoly (July 1983)
• Monopoly & State Interference (February 1982)
• Bibliography on Concentration (May 14)
• Monopoly Price (with excerpt from Marx’s Capital, Vol. III)
• Value & Monopoly (with excerpt from Bailey)
• Monopoly …