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La Organización Industrial Del Transporte Aéreo En Chile, Claudio A. Agostini

Claudio A. Agostini

Over the last 20 years, demand for air passenger transport has grown dramatically. At the same time, the two largest domestic airlines merged and several smaller entrants exited without being able to make significant inroads. As a result, the industry is highly concentrated, with a dominant firm and a few fringe firms. This condition has generated considerable public debate about the degree of competition in the airline industry in Chile. With the purpose of contributing to the public discussion, this paper analyzes the industry from an industrial organization point of view. Specifically, the paper describes the domestic airline industry in …

Childhood Sexual Abuse In Black Men Who Have Sex With Men: Results From Three Qualitative Studies, Sheldon D. Fields, David J. Malebranche, Sonja Feist-Price

David J Malebranche

This report describes the high prevalence and context of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) across 3 independent qualitative studies. Semistructured one-on-one interviews were conducted with 87 Black MSM across 3 cities (Rochester, NY, n=28; Lexington, KY/Atlanta, GA, n=30; and Atlanta, GA, n =29). A combined CSA prevalence of 32% (28/87) was found among the 3 samples, despite variation in geographic location, mean age, and sexual identification. Common themes emerging across the 3 samples included prolonged and repeated abuse by a close male relative; blaming of same-sex desire on CSA; and descriptions of …

The Aztec Empire, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

Disparities In Labor Market Outcomes Across Geopolitical Regions In Nigeria. Fact Or Fantasy?, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

No abstract provided.

Should Binge Eating Disorder Be Included In The Dsm-V? A Critical Review Of The State Of Evidence., Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

The Risk Components Of Liquidity, Lorán Chollete, Randi Naes, Johannes Skjeltorp

Lorán Chollete

No abstract provided.

Governance, Diversification And Performance: The Case Of Italy’S Banche Popolari, Paola Agnese Bongini, Giovanni Ferri

Paola Bongini

No abstract provided.

Secrecy And Democratic Decisions, Mark A. Chinen

Mark A. Chinen

Secrecy to protect intelligence sources and methods appears often in the nation’s discourse about controversial national security matters. Often it is asked whether such secrecy is consistent with the nation’s democratic principles and processes. I argue such principles and processes provide a framework through which we try to answer questions about secrecy and indeed legitimate them, but are often too broad to provide definitive guidance in specific cases. At the same time, the sources and methods argument itself is overbroad because of the nature of the sources and methods themselves; the tentative nature of intelligence assessments derived from those sources …

The Impact Of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage On Health Care Utilization And Health: Evidence From Medicare, David Card, Carlos Dobkin, Nicole Maestas

Nicole Maestas

No abstract provided.

Understanding Service Quality And Relationship Quality In Is Outsourcing: Client Orientation & Promotion, Project Management Effectiveness, And The Task-Technology-Structure Fit, Subrata Chakrabarty, Dwayne Whitten, Kenneth W. Green

Subrata Chakrabarty

Sobre Las Causas De La Pobreza Y El Déficit En La Realización De Derechos (Reseña), Leonardo García Jaramillo

Leonardo García Jaramillo

No abstract provided.

Education In The Reform Era, Emily C. Hannum, Jere Behrman, Meiyan Wang, Jihong Liu

Emily C. Hannum

No abstract provided.

Urban-Rural Disparities In Access To Primary And Secondary Education Under Market Reform, Emily C. Hannum, Meiyan Wang, Jennifer H. Adams

Emily C. Hannum

No abstract provided.

Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives On Barriers To Education, Emily C. Hannum, Jennifer H. Adams

Emily C. Hannum

No abstract provided.

The Militant Protester As Model Citizen, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

Argues the militancy is a civic virtue.

Is There Ever An Obligation To Commit Welfare Fraud?, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

Argues that, in some cases, public assistance recipients have both a right and a duty to commit 'welfare fraud.'

Conflict Of Interest And Public Party Finance (Corruption Remix), Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

This presentation presents an overview of conflict of interest anti-corruption activities aimed at political corruption.

Закон За Спречување На Корупција Во Локалната Власт: Правни Прашања Поврзани Со Дизајнирање На Прописи И Тела За Спречување На Корупција На Локално Ниво Во Македонија, Bryane Michael

Bryane Michael (bryane.michael@stcatz.ox.ac.uk)

Општините во Република Македонија треба да усвојат прописи за спречување на корупција со цел да ја намалат корупцијата. Овој труд ги разгледува правните прашања поврзани со изработката на такви прописи и обезбедува правен совет за советите на општините за правна и економска анализа потреба за решавање на некои од потешките и подетални прашања. Најважното прашање произлегува од креирањето на модел на пропис кој општините во Македонија (или Заедницата на единиците на локалната самоуправа на Република Македонија) можат да го усвојат со цел воспоставување и работа на тела за спречување на корупција на локално ниво. Анализирана е локацијата на таквите тела, …

What Are The Mechanisms Linking Financial Development And Economic Growth In Malaysia?, James B. Ang

James B Ang

This paper estimates a six-equation model of financial development and economic growth for Malaysia to shed light on the mechanisms linking these two variables. The results indicate that financial development leads to higher output growth via promoting both private saving and private investment. The findings also provide some support for the hypothesis of endogenous financial development and growth models that finance leads to higher growth through improved efficiency of investment. There is evidence that repressionist financial policies, such as interest rate controls, high reserve requirements and directed credit programs, have contributed positively to financial development. However, other direct government interventions …

Review Of The Book Icons Of Business: An Encyclopedia Of Mavericks, Movers & Shakers, Teresa Williams

Teresa Williams

¿Qué Es La Justicia Global? (Traducción), Leonardo García Jaramillo

Leonardo García Jaramillo

No abstract provided.

Discourse Analysis And Rhetorical Studies, Christopher Eisenhart, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Testing An Individual Systems Model Of Response Evaluation And Decision (Red) And Antisocial Behavior Across Adolescence, Reid G. Fontaine

Reid G. Fontaine

This study examined the bidirectional development of aggressive response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior across five time points in adolescence. Participants (n5522) were asked to imagine themselves behaving aggressively while viewing videotaped ambiguous provocations and answered a set of RED questions following each aggressive retaliation (administered at Grades 8 and 11 [13 and 16 years, respectively]). Self- and mother reports of antisocial behavior were collected at Grades 7, 9/10, and 12 (12, 14/15, and 17 years, respectively). Using structural equation modeling, the study found a partial mediating effect at each hypothesized mediational path despite high stability of antisocial …

Excavating America’S Metaphor: Race, Diaspora, And Vindicationist Archaeologies, Paul Mullins

Paul Mullins

Over more than a century African diasporan scholars have defined identity in complex forms that aspire to resist racial essentialism yet stake consequential political claims to collective roots. Historical archaeology has painted a rich picture of the material details of African American life that also refutes black essentialism, but archaeologists have crafted many utterly fluid African diasporan identities that sometimes fail to examine the global connections, anti-racist citizen rights, and concrete cultural heritage long examined by diasporan scholars. An empirically and politically rigorous African diasporan archaeology would be significantly extended by diasporan scholarship’s vindicationist and reflective anti-racist perspectives. Such an …

Review: The Trouble With Diversity: How We Learned To Love Identity And Ignore Inequality By Walter Benn Michaels., Nolan L. Cabrera

Nolan L. Cabrera

No abstract provided.

Specific Knowledge And Performance Measurement, Michael Raith

Michael Raith

I examine optimal incentives and performance measurement in a model where an agent has specific knowledge (in the sense of Jensen and Meckling) about the consequences of his actions for the principal. Contracts can be based both on “input” measures related to the agent’s actions and an “output” measure related to the principal’s payoff. Whereas input-based pay minimizes income risk, only output-based pay encourages the agent to use his knowledge efficiently. In general, it is optimal to use both kinds of performance measures. The results help to explain some empirical puzzles and lead to several new predictions.

). Disordered Eating And Substance Use In High School Students: Results From The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, Ruth Striegel Weissman

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Public And Private Expenditures On Health In The Presence Of Inequality And Endogenous Mortality: A Political Economy Perspective, Radhika Lahiri, Elizabeth W. Richardson

Radhika Lahiri

In this paper we study an overlapping-generations model in which agents’ mortality risks, and consequently impatience, are endogenously determined by private and public investment in health care. The proportion of revenues allocated for public health care is also endogenous, determined as the outcome of a voting process. Higher substitutability between public and private health is associated with a “crowding-out” effect which leads to lower public expenditures on health care in the political equilibrium. This in turn impacts on mortality risks and impatience leading to a greater persistence in inequality and long run distributions of wealth that are bimodal.

Intimidating Competitors–Endogenous Vertical Integration And Downstream Investment In Succesive Oligopoly, Armin Schmutzler, Stefan Bühler

Armin Schmutzler

This paper examines the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and cost-reducing downstream investment in successive oligopoly. Analyzing a linear Cournot model, we establish the following key results: (i) Vertical integration increases own investment and decreases competitor investment (intimidation effect). (ii) Asymmetric integration is a non-degenerate equilibrium outcome. (iii) Compared to a benchmark model without investment, complete vertical separation is a less likely outcome. We argue that these findings generalize beyond the linear Cournot model under reasonable assumptions.

Chapter 14: Native American Law, Wolfgang Fikentscher

Wolfgang Fikentscher

Inclusive online updates jan10. Chapter 14 is based on fieldwork among North American Pueblos and other Native American nations, the results of which have already been published elsewhere (Cooter & Fikentscher, cites in Chapter 1 I. 6. a., above). Therefore, Chapter 14 is short. It brings what has been included in the Readers of 1996 to 2000 (see the remarks in the Preface above), in an amended and revised form.