Studies in Economics and Finance: Volume 9 Issue 1

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A STUDY OF CONGRESSIONAL VOTING

WOODROW W. JR. HUGHES

During the 1984 political campaigns, the public was deluged by requests from candidates and campaign managers for contributions to aid in their quest for political victory. Many…

DESCRIBING THE MACROECONOMY: THE ROLE OF STICKY TAXES

PETER J. LAMBERT

In this paper we describe and explore a simple macroeconomy with a progressive income tax and with both ad valorem and unit taxes on commodities. Despite the prevalence of such…

THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODEL OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY: AN APPLICATION

GLENVILLE RAWLINS

A firm is technically efficient when it produces the maximum level of output for a given level of input on the assumption that technology is fixed. Although the above definition…

A SIMPLE MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE HECKSCHER‐OHLIN THEOREM

RUSSELL SHANNON

A mainstay of conventional trade theory, the Heckscher‐Ohlin theorem, dates back to an article published in 1919 by the Swedish economist Eli Heckscher. Bertil Ohlin, a student of…

CONCENTRATION OF EXPORTS AND EXPORT EARNINGS INSTABILITY: THE CASE OF JORDAN

JAMIL M. TAHIR

Instability in the export proceeds of developing countries has been discussed and lamented for many years in the general literature on economic development. It is relatively…

Cover of Studies in Economics and Finance

ISSN:

1086-7376

Online date, start – end:

1977

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Niklas Wagner