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The effects of optimal time of day on persuasion processes in older adults
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-05)
Past research demonstrates that the majority of older adults (60 years and older) perform resource-demanding tasks better in the morning than in the afternoon or evening. The authors ask whether this time-of-day effect ...
On models of racial prejudice and urban residential structure
(Elsevier, 1977-07)
Economists have studied the effects of racial prejudice on urban residential structure using a set of models that focus on conditions at the border between the black and white areas. This paper is a review of the theoretical ...
Electoral and welfare consequences of political manipulation of the economy
(Elsevier, 1985-06)
This paper examines the long-term electoral and welfare consequences of repeated strategies whereby a political office-holder induces cycles in economic variables to maximize his chances of re-election. Unlike other studies ...
Discovering manipulated social choices: The coincidence of cycles and manipulated outcomes
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Martinus Nijhoff Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1986-01)
How Robust is Comparative Advantage?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005-11)
This paper reviews the theoretical development of the concept of comparative advantage, starting with the two-good model of Ricardo and the two-good extension and reinterpretation by Haberler. In both, the presence of ...
Patterns of Trade and Growth across Cones
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-06)
This paper examines the implications of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model for the patterns of production and trade that will emerge as a country grows. It focuses primarily on world equilibria that include two or more cones ...
Divestitures, privatization and corporate performance in emerging markets
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-01)
We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of firm divestitures and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, we control for accompanying ownership ...
Reversal of fortune: Macroeconomic policy, International Finance, and Banking in Japan
(Springer-Verlag, 2005-11)
This essay provides an introduction and overview for a symposium on macroeconomic policy, international finance and banking in Japan. The symposium consists of thirteen papers. Nine of the papers including most of those ...