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Learning By Doing And Dynamic Regulation, Tracy R. Lewis, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

Managing Dynamic Competition, Tracy R. Lewis, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

Tradeable Carbon Permit Auctions: How And Why To Auction Not Grandfather, Peter Cramton, Suzi Kerr

Peter Cramton

An auction of carbon permits is the best way to achieve carbon caps set by international negotiation to limit global climate change. To minimize administrative costs, permits would be required at the level of oil refineries, natural gas pipe lines, liquid sellers, and coal processing plants. To maximize liquidity in secondary markets, permits would be fully tradable and bankable. The government would conduct quarterly auctions. A standard ascending-clock auction in which price is gradually raised until there is no excess demand would provide reliable price discovery. An auction is preferred to grandfathering (giving polluters permits in proportion to past pollution), …

Spectrum Auctions, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Auctions have emerged as the primary means of assigning spectrum licenses to companies wishing to provide wireless communication services. Since July 1994, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has conducted 33 spectrum auctions, assigning thousands of licenses to hundreds of firms. Countries throughout the world are conducting similar auctions. I review the current state of spectrum auctions. Both the design and performance of these auctions are addressed.

Kultura – Odkrywana Czy Konstruowana?, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Artykuł przedstawia pokrótce zagadnienie odkrywania i konstruowania kultury. Broni tezy społecznego konstruktywizmu, zgodnie z którą kultura ma charakter performatywny, a nie ostensywny (jest konstruowana, a nie odkrywana przez badacza).

Unemployment Scarring In High Unemployment Regions, Claudio Lupi, Patrizia Ordine

Claudio Lupi

This paper investigates the effect of individual unemployment experiences on re-employment wages. The empirical analysis is carried out on a panel of Italian individuals. The main result is that while in the northern regions the effect is similar to the one estimated for the UK, in the southern area of the country the impact is not significant. We link this result to the particular socio-economic environment in which the unemployment spells are experienced. We argue that this might be due to the fact that in a high unemployment environment individual unemployment experiences are perceived as "normal" and do not necessarily …

An Argentine Evangelical Church: Twilight Of A Transnational Field?, David Cook-Martín

David Cook-Martín

No abstract provided.

Review Of "The Rise Of 'The Rest': Challenges To The West From Late-Industrializing Economies", Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Violencia Urbana E Inseguridad Ciudadana: Ecuador, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Las encuestas que se vienen haciendo en algunas ciudades, establecen que una de las demandas fundamentales de la población, es la seguridad. En Quito, que supuestamente es una ciudad pacífica (se define como «ciudad franciscana»), justamente una encuesta que se terminó este mes, determinó que la principal reivindicación de la población con un porcentaje alrededor de un 20.2%, es la seguridad ciudadana.

En segundo lugar estaba el costo de vida y en el tercero el agua potable. Según las encuestas que hemos visto en América Latina, la demanda por seguridad es la más significativa y creciente. Un segundo aspecto que …

La Descentralización En América Latina. Una Perspectiva Comparada, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El proceso centralizador de la sociedad, la economía, la cultura, la política y el territorio -en un contexto de globalización y revoluci6n científico-tecnológica- ha conducido al desarrollo de su antítesis: la descentralización. Esta evolución, que se inició en Europa con anticipación a lo ocurrido en América Latina, requiere ser conocida y analizada, realizando un balance de las principales experiencias, así como de la historia de los procesos particulares, puesto que se ha constatado que, aunque existen cierras constantes, no hay un modelo general de descentralización: cada país en cada momento debe encontrar las soluciones más adecuadas para contrarrestar los efectos …

Production, Perception, And Emergent Phonotactic Patterns: A Case Of Contrastive Palatalization, Alexei Kochetov

Alexei Kochetov

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Group Membership On The Avoidance Of Negative Outcomes: Implications For Social And Consumer Decisions, Donnel A. Briley, Robert S. Wyer

Donnel A Briley

Calling consumers’ attention to their cultural identity can make them aware of their membership in a group and, therefore, can induce a group mind-set. This mindset, in turn, leads them to make decisions that minimize the risk of negative outcomes to both themselves and others. The effects of this mind-set generalize over both group and individual choice situations. These possibilities were confirmed in a series of six experiments. Results showed that making people feel part of an ad hoc group increased not only their use of equality as a basis for allocating resources to themselves and others, but also their …

Brush Fences And Basket Traps: The Archaeology And Ethnohistory Of Tidewater Weir Fishing On The Oregon Coast, Scott Byram

R. Scott Byram, Ph.D.

Anthropologists recognize the economic importance of fishing weirs in the harvest of marine resources by Northwest Coast peoples. Yet very little research has focused on the range of variability in weir technology and its cultural and environmental context. I examine intertidal fishing technologies on the Oregon Coast, a southerly portion of the Northwest Coast. On the Oregon Coast, the estuary ecotone held a great abundance and diversity of fishes. The largest and most numerous Native residential centers were located along the shores of estuaries, and tidewater fishing appears to have been central to the region’s economy.

I examine extensive unpublished …

Rockets And Feathers Revisited: An International Comparison On European Gasoline Markets, Marzio Galeotti, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

This paper re-examines the issue of asymmetries in the transmission of shocks to crude oil prices onto the retail price of gasoline. Relative to the previous literature, the distinguishing features of the present paper are: i) use of updated and comparable data to carry out an international comparison of gasoline markets; ii) two-stage modeling of the transmission of oil price shocks to gasoline prices (first refinery stage and second distribution stage), in order to assess possible asymmetries at either one or both stages; iii) use of asymmetric error correction models to distinguish between asymmetries that arise from short-run deviations in …

Characterization Of Different Reactive Lysines In Bovine Heart Mitochondrial Porin. Al Jamal Ja, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Traditional And Enhanced Listing For Probability Sampling, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Stephanie Eckman, Charlene Weiss

Stephanie Eckman

No abstract provided.

The Professionalization Thesis: The Tbr, The Wto And World Economic Integration, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Argues that the DSB of the WTO represents one instance of the globalization of the rule of law.

"What's In A Name? Aryans, Dravidians, And Other Myths Of Sri Lankan Identity", Arjun Guneratne

Arjun Guneratne

Reprinted in Kamala Visweswaran, ed., Perspectives on modern South Asia: a reader in culture, history, and representation. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Critical Examination Of Two Famine Early Warning Methodologies In Zimbabwe: What Lessons May Be Learned?, William G. Moseley, B. Ikubolajeh Logan

William G Moseley

A review of two famine early warning systems in Zimbabwe.

Reflections On Malaysian Urban Landscapes: Unplanned, Planned, And Preserved, David Lanegran

David Lanegran, Retired

No abstract provided.

La Decentralization Et Les Conflits Entre Agriculteurs Et Éleveurs Dans Le Delta Intérieur Du Niger [Decentralization And Farmer-Herder Conflicts In The Inner Niger Delta], William G. Moseley, Julia Earl, Lassine Diarra

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

Peripheral Vision: Globalization, Sustainable Development, And The Political Ecology Of Cotton Production In Mali, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

This chapter examines the evolving dynamic among cotton production for the world market, environmental degradation, and global development paradigms in Mali. It examines how cotton production policy in Mali has changed over time and how this evolution implicate globalization discourse. It also examines the environmental impacts of cotton production, how this is problematized, and how solutions are evoked within globalization discourse. A major sub-text of this analysis is that the economy-environment nexus in Mali is the result of intersecting processes operating at different spatial scales: the global cotton market, national level policy, and local production decisions; all underlain by environmental …

The Center For Children's And Young Adult Literature: A Partnership For Literacy, Ken Wise

Ken Wise

No abstract provided.

The Place Of The Oromo Diaspora In The Oromo National Movement: Lessons From The Agency Of The "Old" African Diaspora In The United States, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

Just as European and African slave traders merchandised Africans and created the old African diaspora, successive colonial and authoritarian regimes2 of Ethiopia forced some Oromos out of their homeland, Oromia, and caused them to settle in the West. The displaced Oromo entered the United States as one of the "new" African diaspora groups four centuries after the old African diaspora began to be created. In the process, the Oromo diaspora emerged on the world stage. Whereas the old African diaspora lived under racial slavery and segregation for almost three centuries, the new African diaspora communities such as the Oromo came …

Ethological Causes And Consequences Of The Stress Response, Neil Greenberg, James A. Carr, Cliff H. Summers

Neil Greenberg

Stress involves real or perceived changes within an organism or in the environment that activate an organism’s attempts to cope by means of evolutionarily ancient neural and endocrine mechanisms. Responses to acute stressors involve catecholamines released in varying proportion at different sites in the sympathetic and central nervous systems. These responses may interact with and be complemented by intrinsic rhythms and responses to chronic or intermittent stressors involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Varying patterns of responses to stressors are also affected by an animal=s assessment of their prospects for successful coping. Subsequent central and systemic consequences of the stress response include …

Ethological Aspects Of Stress In A Model Lizard, Anolis Carolinensis, Neil Greenberg

Neil Greenberg

Research on the stress response in reptiles can provide a useful comparative perspective for understanding how the constituent elements of the response can be put into service of diverse behavioral adaptations. A summary of the neural and endocrine causes and consequences of specific behavioral patterns seen in the small diurnal lizard, Anolis carolinensis, has provided a model for the exploration of the dynamics of autonomic and neurohormonal contributions to adaptive behavior. In this species, changes in body color provide indices of the flux of circulating stress relevant hormones, and are seen in situations from spontaneous exploration through agonistic behavior. Furthermore, …

Adaptive Functions Of The Corpus Striatum: The Past And Future Of The R-Complex, Neil Greenberg

Neil Greenberg

The basal ganglia is emerging from the shadow cast by the most conspicuous clinical expression of its dysfunction: motor disorders.What is revealed is the nexus of a widely distributed system which functions in integrating action with cognition, motivation, and affect. Prominent among non-motor functions are striatal involvement in building up of sequences of behavior into meaningful, goal-directed patterns and repertoires and the selection of appropriate learned or innate sequences in concert with their possible predictive control. Further, striatum seems involved in declarative and strategic memory (involving intentional recollection and the management of retrieved memories, respectively). Findings from reptile experiments indicate …

Another Part Of The Risk Communicatin Model: Analysis Of Risk Communication Process And Message Content, Michael J. Palenchar, Robert L. Heath

Michael J Palenchar

The authors undertook a study to define the messages that exist in 2 communities of risk (e.g., high concentration of chemical facilities) using the principles of fantasy theme analysis and symbolic convergence theory. Through several methodological steps including a document review, interviews, focus groups, and a telephone survey (N = 450), the researchers determined the messages that dominate in the community, and were able to segment them into rhetorical visions based on master analogues. Analysis indicated that persons who adhere to different perspectives or opinions (measured as rhetorical visions) experience different amounts of uncertainty, control, and support or opposition for …

Social Class, Politics, And Urban Markets: The Makings Of Bias In Policy Outcomes, Herman L. Boschken

Herman L. Boschken

No abstract provided.

Hot-Stove League Talk, Richard Buttny, Arthur D. Jensen

Richard Buttny

No abstract provided.