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Centralization of school finance in Michigan
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997)
School finance reform in Michigan involved centralization (at the state level) of spending decisions about schools, a large tax shift (mostly from property to sales), and a small tax cut. The changes came about after two ...
FDI in Emerging Markets: A Home-Country View
(1999-06-01)
In the 1950s and 60s, the American view of foreign direct investment(FDI) in emerging markets, then called less-developed or developing countries, was that it was desirable for three reasons: as a vehicle for economic ...
Family and neighborhood welfare dependency and sons' labor supply
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
This article tests four models of how parental and childhood welfare use affects sons' labor supply: the correlated disadvantages model, Wilson's structural-environmental model, Mead's welfare culture model, and Murray's ...
Telephony, the Internet, and the Media
(1998)
This review essay introduces the 15 selected papers from the 25th Annual TPRC. We mention major telecoms policy highlights of 1997, then offer a light interpretative essay with summaries of the papers. We organize the ...
Optional time-of-use pricing can be pareto superior or pareto inferior
(Elsevier, 1990-08)
Many public utilities offer a choice between time-of-use and flat rates. Two points are established: (1) optional TOU (time-of-use) schedules exist that Pareto dominate both mandatory flat and mandatory TOU rates; but, (2) ...
Pricing Congestible Resources
(1995)
We describe the basic economic theory of pricing a congestible resource such as an ftp server, a router, a Web site, etc. In particular, we examine the implications of "congestion pricing" as a way to encourage efficient ...
Some FAQs about Usage-Based Pricing
(1995)
Written for WWW '94 (Chicago). We answer some frequently asked questions about usage-sensitive pricing for Internet resources.