Economics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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An Economic History 1500-1900: Economic Development in South Central Kansas
(School of Business, Bureau of Business Research, University of Kansas, 1956)During recent years the Bureau of Business Research has been engaged in the preparation of a series of area reports designed to shed light on the significant characteristics of the Kansas economy. In this connection ten ... -
Doctors and·Slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834
(Cambridge University Press, 1985)In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680–1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by ... -
Monetary Policy Rules in Some Transition Economies
(Eurasian Publications, 2014)In this paper we examine the question of whither monetary rules or ad hoc monetary policies were followed during the early stages of transition and in response to the global financial crisis. We study Eastern European ... -
The Effects of Research & Development Funding on Scientific Productivity: Academic Chemistry
(PLOS One, 2015-09-15)This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, ... -
Are recent cohorts of women with engineering bachelors less likely to stay in engineering?
(Frontiers, 2015-08-19)Women are an increasing percentage of Bachelors in Engineering (BSEs) graduates—rising from 1% in 1970 to 20% in the 2000s—encouraged by increasing K-12 emphasis on attracting girls to STEM and efforts to incorporate ... -
West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan
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Academic Chemistry Inputs and Outcomes Data
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Storm Clouds on the Career Horizon for Ph.D.s
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Modern and Traditional Methods for Measuring Money Supply: The Case of Saudi Arabia
(MDPI, 2015-02-25)This paper compares the “simple-sum” monetary aggregates (M1 and M2) published by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) with the new monetary aggregates (D1 and D2)—known as the Divisia monetary indexes. The former ... -
Direct Investment in Conservation Measures by a Public Utility
(International Association for Energy Economics, 1987-01-01)During the period 1978-1980, public policy toward U.S.-regulated utilities mandated residential conservation programs. Public utilities encouraged residential customers to invest in home conservation measures to help meet ... -
Enforcement of Environmental Protection Laws under Communism and Democracy
(University of Chicago Press, 1997-10-01)Lax enforcement of environmental protection laws in the formerly communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe is offered as one contributing factor to the large‐scale environmental degradation that these countries ... -
Comparative Statics When the Objective Function Is Concave: Old Wine in Old Bottles?
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An Economic Model of a Professional Sports League
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A Simple Proof of the Ramsey Savings Equation
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Optimal Use of Information in Litigation: Should Regulatory Information Be Withheld to Deter Frivolous Suits?
(RAND, 1997-03-01)We examine the value of incorporating regulatory information into the court liability decision and making it publicly available when the causality of harm is uncertain. Public access to regulatory information, coupled with ... -
Optimal Mix of Penalties in a Principal-Agent Model under Different Institutional Arrangements
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000-03-13)This paper uses principal-agent theory to examine the optimal mix of monetary- and resource-based penalties in two institutional settings: a market economy and a centrally planned economy. In a centrally planned economy, ... -
Countervailing effects of atrazine on water recreation: How do recreators evaluate them?
(American Geophysical Union, 2003-03-02)This paper examines the countervailing effects of atrazine on water recreational choices. The presence of atrazine in waterbodies potentially reduces the symptoms of eutrophication, which is a condition of low water quality ... -
The Evolution of Economies of Scale Regarding Pollution Control: Cross-Sectional Evidence from a Transition Economy
(North American Business Press, 2011-01-01)This paper assesses whether firms face economies and/or diseconomies of scale with respect to air pollution control by evaluating the effects of production on firm-level air emission levels. To achieve this objective, this ... -
Lipschitzian Solutions of Perturbed Nonlinear Programming Problems
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1986-01-01)We prove that if a second order sufficient condition and a constraint regularity assumption hold, then for sufficiently small perturbations of the constraints and the objective function, the set of local minimizers reduces ... -
Smooth Normal Approximations of epi-Lipschitzian subsets of R(n)*
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1999-01-01)See article for abstract.