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Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
The Potential Impact of International Trade and Investment Sanctions on the South African Economy
(1979-02)
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the theory of international economic sanctions and to provide estimates of the short-run economic impact on South Africa of externally imposed reductions in the imports and capital ...
Thriving at work: Toward its measurement, construct validation, and theoretical refinement
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012-02)
Some Economists of the Internet
(1993-05)
This is a preliminary version of a paper prepared for the Tenth Michigan Public Utility Conference at Western Michigan University March 25-27, 1993. We describe the history, technology and cost structure of the Internet. ...
The Anticipated Sectoral Impact of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: An Event Study Analysis
(1991-03)
In this paper, a stock market event study is employed to investigate investors' expectations about the consequences of the Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement for manufacturing industries in Canada. The author finds that ...
Three Papers on Revealed Preference
(1987)
The titles of the three papers are: Revealed Preference with a Subset of Goods; Estimating Risk Aversion from Arrow-Debreu Portfolio Choice; and, On the Goodness-of-Fit of Revealed Preference Conditions
A robust design in hardfacing using a plasma transfer arc
(Springer-Verlag, 2006-02)
This paper presents the use of the Taguchi-regression method in developing the optimal plasma transferred arc welding (PTAW) process for obtaining high hardfacing quality characteristics. An “optimal” process means that ...
Property Right Protection of Reproducible Genetic Material
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Oxford University Press, 1996-09)
The Welfare Effects of Forbidding Discriminatory Discounts: A Ssecondary Line Analysis of Robinson-Patman
(1993-10)
We examine the welfare effects of forbidding price discrimination in intermediate goods markets when firms can bargain over terms of their nonlinear supply contracts. In particular, our focus is on secondary line injury ...
How Robust are Sign and Rank Order Tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek Theorem?
(1991-01)
The present paper will concentrate on four different rank order and two different sign propositions of the HOV model, which have, at various times, all been the subject of empirical analysis in the literature, and it will ...