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An Information Theory Approach to Measuring Industrial Diversification
Mohsen Attaran, Martin ZwickIt is demonstrated that entropy is a useful measure for examiningindustrial diversity either among regions or for a particular regionover time. Using the entropy method…
General Equilibrium Analysis of Negative Value‐added
Gopal Tribedy, Hamid Beladi, Basudeb BiswasA simple two‐sector general equilibrium model is developed to showhow the phenomenon of negative value‐added occurs in the protectedsector, when the intermediate input is an…
The Non‐Equivalence of Equivalent Restrictions: A Further Example
David GreenawayVoluntary export restraints (VERs) have been widely used in recentyears. VERs may be applied on a quantity or a ratio basis. A simplenon‐equivalence between volume and ratio VERs…
The Monetarist Explanation of Inflation: The Experience of Six African Countries
Abebayehu TegeneThe monetarist model of inflation is tested with quarterly dataover the period 1960‐1983 from six African countries: Egypt, Ghana,Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan and Tunisia. The role of…
An Appraisal of the Performance of Manufacturing Industry in Wales
M.S. Silver, J.F. LoweThe relative performance of manufacturing industry in Wales and theUK is appraised using a range of performance measures related to anumber of concepts of efficiency, which are…
Immiserising Growth with Globally Optimal Policies
William G. KaempferImmiserizing growth is impossible when the growing country followsnationally optimal policies and the growth stimulates no foreignreaction. However, this solution may leave other…
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- Prof Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee