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The Impact of Tariffs on Profits in the United States and Other Major Trading Countries
(1987-06-04)
In this paper, we use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to analyze the impact of protection on total and per unit profits in the U.S. and other major trading countries. It is found that protection reduces ...
Toward a theory of honesty and trust among communicating autonomous agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-09)
This article outlines, through a number of examples, a method that can be used by autonomous agents to decide among potential messages to send to other agents, without having to assume that a message must be truthful and ...
Econometric Models of Governmental Aid to Multilateral Agencies
(1986-02)
This paper investigates the extent to which donors' multilateral aid is affected by conditions in their own economics. For this purpose, we use multiple regression techniques consisting of a pooling of cross-section and ...
Microeconomic adjustments during an export boom: Argentina, 2003–11
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.CEPAL, 2018-08)
This paper examines Argentine exports at the firm level between 2003 and 2011, a period of exceptional and sustained export growth. While at the product level, the pattern of specialisation barely changed, exporters exhibit ...
Managing Money and Credit in a Developing Economy
(1971)
The purpose of this paper is to supplement the existing literture by providing an analytical framework which helps pinpoint the exact nature of the problems of monetary management in a developing country, and to suggest ...
Strategic Pricing when Electricity is Storable
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-11)
In this paper, we develop a simplified oligopoly model where hydro generators engage in dynamic Bertrand competition. Each player uses a Markov strategy based on the state of water reservoirs at the beginning of each period. ...
Air Force Academy Attrition: A New Perspective on the College Dropout Problem
(1987)
The purpose of this report is to summarize the conceptual underpinnings and computerized implementation of a model of Air Force Academy attrition. The policy questions which prompted development of this model concerns the ...
Differentiated Products, Economies of Scale and Access to the Japanese Market
(1988-10)
For much of the past thirty-face years Japan has imported a remarkably small share of the manufactured goods it consumes. This distinctive trade structure is regularly cited by policy makes as evidence that, despite the ...