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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 …

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 …

The Distributional Effects Of Fiscal And Trade Reform In Egypt, Mona Aboul-Kheir

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Some Factors Affecting Crude Oil Production In Egypt, Dalia Mohamed Abou Senna

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Impact Of Foreign Capital Inflows On Savings In Egypt, Khaled Abdel Fattah

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Private Sector Bureaucratic Behavior In Egypt: A Case Study Of The American University In Cairo, Nathaniel Gordon Knox

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Attitudes Towards The Market And The State In Post-Communist Europe, David S. Mason

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This paper examines the level and sources of suppon for the market-oriented reforms in East-Central Europe and the relationship between these attitudes and political trust in the governments. The analysis is based on data collected in a common public opinion survey on social, economic and political justice implemented in the spring and summer of 1991 in eleven countries: Russia. Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany (east and west), Holland, the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States.

The survey results suggest some measure of caution and concern regarding the possibilities for a successful transition to market democracy in the former …

Can One Unscramble An Omlet? China's Economic Reform In Theory And Practice, Yuan-Li Wu, Richard Y.C. Yin

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

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Rigging The Lobbying Process: An Application Of The All-Pay Auction, Michael R. Baye, Dan Kovenock, Casper G. De Vries

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

In a world where a politician can explicitly auction off a prize to the high bidder, the standard auction literature can be used to analyse political behavior. The justice system, however, precludes politicians from explicitly selling the prize to the highest bidder. Thus politicians cannot let it become public knowledge that they are in the business of selling political favors. An institution has emerged in political markets to overcome this constraint which are termed as lobbying. Lobbyists make implicit payments to the politician through campaign contributions. If these up-front payments were rebated to those failing to receive the prize, it …

1993 American Incentive System Almanac, Don P. Diffine Ph.D.

Belden Center Monographs

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The Analytical Structure Of Classical Marxian Economics, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (1993, December). The analytical structure of classical Marxian economics [Draft; unpublished manuscript].

Robert H. Bates And Anne O. Kruger (Eds.). Political And Economic Interactions In Economic Policy Reform (Book Review), Sandra F. Joireman, Winston Wells

Political Science Faculty Publications

This volume is a welcome attempt to combine extremely disparate regional literature on structural adjustment programs. The empirical research for the book was conducted in such a way as to generate truly economic hypotheses and conclusions. Bates and Krueger commissioned eight teams of researchers; each composed of at least one political scientist and an economist. The teams' initial agenda was to unravel the puzzle of why good economics means bad politics in relation to these structural adjustment programs. To meet that end, the teams were asked to investigate three phases surrounding the adjustment programs: Informed by current theories of interest …

Fixed Capital Theory, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Gordon, R. J. (1993, March). Reply: The concept of capital. Review of Income and Wealth, 39(1), 103–110. International Association for Research in Income and Wealth; Wiley.

• Cohan, A. B. (1975, July). Clarification of the reinvestment assumption in capital analysis: Clarification, comment, query. Journal of Business Research, 3(3), 239–242. Elsevier.

• Schefold, B. (1976). Reduction to dated quantities of labour, roundabout processes, and switches of technique in fixed capital systems. Metroeconomica, 28(1), 1–15. Wiley.

• Shaikh, A. (1978, August 10). Rate of return [Handwritten notes].

• Shaikh, A. (1983, May). Paul Swanson’s “The …

Jean Ensminger. Making A Market: The Institutional Transformation Of An African Society (Book Review), Sandra F. Joireman

Political Science Faculty Publications

The publication of Making a Market marks yet another excellent contribution to the field from the Cambridge Series on Political Economy. Similar to the other volumes in the series, it emphasizes the interaction of political structures and institutions with economic change. Yet whereas most of the previous volumes in the series have been written by political scientists or economists, this book stands out as unique in that it is written from an anthropological perspective. Unusual as this is, the book gives an extremely sophisticated and readable application of the new institutional economics to the developing world.