A ‘Walrasian post-Keynesian’ model? Resolving the paradox of Oskar Lange’s 1938 theory of interest
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
January 2014; p ublished online July 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium; Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment; General Aggregative Models; Capitalist Systems; History of Economic Thought (1925 onwards). 11726 words.
This article investigates Oskar Lange’s 1938 article, ‘The rate of interest and the optimum propensity to consume’, with the intention of providing a thorough interpretation of this rather...
(A, f): Choice with Frames
in The Review of Economic Studies
October 2008; p ublished online October 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy. 5551 words.
We develop a framework for modelling choice in the presence of framing effects. An extended choice function assigns a chosen element to every pair (A, f) where A is a set of alternatives,...
About Choice
in Logic of Choice and Economic Theory
November 1987; p ublished online November 2003 .
Chapter. Subjects: Microeconomics. 10234 words.
The chapter is concerned with the generalities of choice and the optimum. Its eight sections are: forming a choice; demand as choice; choice functions; the optimum; optimal choice...
Academic productivity before and after tenure: the case of the ‘specialist’
in Oxford Economic Papers
April 2015; p ublished online February 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Production and Organizations; Economics; Economic Education and Teaching of Economics. 8176 words.
Studies suggest research productivity falls after tenure. We have limited choice-theoretic understanding of why this should occur. We rationalize this as follows. Some scholars are assumed...
ACCESS AND INFORMATION REMEDIES IN HIGH-TECH ANTITRUST
in Journal of Competition Law & Economics
September 2012; p ublished online July 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Antitrust Issues and Policies; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; Market Structure and Pricing. 8165 words.
As antitrust becomes more complex, so do its remedies. While access and disclosure remedies have been a part of antitrust law since the very earliest days of the Sherman Act, they have...
Access pricing with regulated downstream competition and upstream externalities
in European Review of Agricultural Economics
March 2010; p ublished online February 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy; Antitrust Issues and Policies; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behaviour; Agricultural Economics; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance. 7723 words.
We examine the optimal funding of farmers who have organised their activity in a cooperative that controls the supply of an input factor and meets competition in the market for its...
Access to Financial Services: Measurement, Impact, and Policies
in The World Bank Research Observer
February 2009; p ublished online February 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Microeconomics; Financial Institutions and Services; Banking; Economic Development. 9503 words.
In many developing countries less than half the population has access to formal financial services, and in most of Africa less than one in five households has access. Lack of access to...
Accessing remote knowledge—the roles of trade fairs, pipelines, crowdsourcing and listening posts
in Journal of Economic Geography
September 2014; p ublished online February 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy; Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behaviour. 8737 words.
Work on clusters during the last few decades convincingly demonstrates enhanced opportunities for local growth and entrepreneurship, but external upstream knowledge linkages are often...
Accommodation or deterrence in the face of commercial piracy: the impact of intellectual property rights protection
in Oxford Economic Papers
July 2012; p ublished online November 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Production and Organizations; Services; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; Market Structure and Pricing. 7333 words.
In this paper, we study when the original product developer makes costly investment to deter a commercial pirate in a given regime of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. We find...
Accounting for Heterogeneity in Growth Incidence in Cameroon Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
in Journal of African Economies
November 2013; p ublished online May 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Welfare and Poverty; Economywide Country Studies; Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics; Microeconomics; Single Equation Models; Single Variables. 9781 words.
This paper frames growth incidence analysis within the logic of social impact evaluation understood as an assessment of variations in individual and social outcomes attributable to shocks...