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Problems in the estimation and interpretation of the reliability of survey data
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-09)
In this paper I discuss several of the difficulties involved in estimating the reliability of survey measurement. Reliability is defined on the basis of classical true-score theory , as the correlational consistency of ...
Strategic Interactions of Monetary Policymakers and Wage/Price Bargainers: A Review with Implications for the European Common-Currency Area
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-12)
This paper reviews recent work on macroeconomic management with varying organization of wage/price bargaining and degrees of credible monetary conservatism. The emerging literature synthesizes and extends theory and empirics ...
Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-09)
Rawls' Difference Principle asserts that a basic economic structure is just if it makes the worst off people as well off as is feasible. How well off someone is is to be measured by an ‘index’ of ‘primary social goods’. ...
When benefits are difficult to measure
(Elsevier, 1987)
Benefit cost analysis is seldom applied to programs which aim directly at improving human well-being; the problems in quantifying such benefits, particularly in dollar form, are simply too great. This paper explains ...
A contingent cost analysis of alternative manufacturing information systems
(Elsevier, 1987-09)
The evaluation of alternative management information systems can aid systems analysts determine appropriate information support for managers, aid managers to become informed participants in the system design process, and ...
Quality of life indicators and program evaluation
(Elsevier, 1980)
Social indicators and program evaluation research have much in common. Quality of life work specifically raises the question of objective versus subjective variables, aggregate data versus distributional and individual ...
Causes as explanations: A critique
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
This paper offers a critique of the view that causation can be analyzed in terms of explanation. In particular, the following points are argued: (1) a genuine explanatory analysis of causation must make use of a fully ...
Personal probabilities of probabilities
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1975-05)
By definition, the subjective probability distribution of a random event is revealed by the (‘rational’) subject's choice between bets — a view expressed by F. Ramsey, B. De Finetti, L. J. Savage and traceable to E. Borel ...
Did Unexpectedly Strong Economic Growth Cause the Oil Price Shock of 2003–2008?
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.MIT Press, 2013-08)
Recently developed structural models of the global crude oil market imply that the surge in the real price of oil between mid 2003 and mid 2008 was driven by repeated positive shocks to the demand for all industrial ...