samanta
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Public Goods, Bounded Attention Spans and Equilibrium in the Internet Economy
by: samanta, 33 pagesWe consider a pure public goods economy with a continuum of agents. In the standard model, the optimal public good levels will generally be infinitely larger than the private good consumption levels. ...
HEALTHY LIVING IN HARD TIMES
by: samanta, 33 pagesUsing microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while ...
Making policy in the "new economy": the case of biotechnology in Karnataka, India
by: samanta, 46 pagesThis paper is a story of the making of a policy, one that included many different players, located across a variety of sites. By tracing the origins of the millennium biotechnology policy in ...
Characteristics of the Household Sector of the Hidden Economy in an Emerging Economy
by: samanta, 36 pagesUsing the case study of Trinidad and Tobago we investigate for an emerging economy the socioeconomic, demographic, and attitudinal characteristics that influence the propensity of ...
'Coase vs Hayek': Economic Organization and the Knowledge Economy
by: samanta, 28 pagesMany writers argue that economic organization is undergoing major transformation in the emerging knowledge economy; authority relations are withering; legal and ownership-based definitions of the ...
Embedding Research in Society: Development Assistance Options for Supporting Agricultural Innovation in a Global Knowledge Economy
by: samanta, 19 pagesThe emergence of a globalised knowledge economy, and the contemporary views of innovation capacity that this trend enables and informs, provides a new context in which development assistance to ...
How the Current Account Dwarfs the Capital Account: China's Incongruous Role in the World Economy
by: samanta, 15 pagesThe integration of China into the world economy has done its part to increase global imbalances. Relying on export-led growth, the country's quasixed exchange rate against the US dollar has ...
The Evolution of the US Financial Industry from 1860 to 2007: Theory and Evidence.
by: samanta, 48 pagesThe share of fi nance in U.S. GDP displays large historical variations. Iargue, using evidence and theory, that corporate finance is a key factor behind these evolutions. Corporate demand for ...
Decentralized Price Adjustment in 2◊2 Replica Economies
by: samanta, 32 pagesThis paper presents a model of price adjustment in replica economies with two consumer types and two goods. The model provides a trading rule that allows out-of-equilibrium trading anda ...
News, Noise and Estimates of the "True" Unobserved State of the Economy
by: samanta, 44 pagesWhich provides a better estimate of the "true" state of the U. S. economy, gross domestic product (GDP) or gross domestic income (GDI) ? Past work has assumed the difference between each estimate and ...
