Volume 6(2), 2018
POLITICAL POWER, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE CURRENT ANTI-CORRUPTION ENFORCEMENT IN CHINA
ABSTRACT. Employing recent research results covering anti-corruption investigation in China (e.g. Deng, 2018; Gang and Yano, 2017; Kim, Li, and Tarzia, 2018; Kong, Wang, and Wang, 2017; Li et al., 2017; Ying and Liu, 2018), I clarify that anti-corruption investigation is more successful when top off..
KNOWLEDGE WORK AND LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. I follow recent research (e.g. Bartels and Johnson, 2015; Del Giudice et al., 2017; Iaione, 2016; Kimball, 2015; Polemarchakis, 2015) showing that cognitive economics analyzes the mechanism of abstraction of information from the setting via perception, and the advancement of knowledge via ..
METAMORPHOSIS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY: A NEW COMBINATION OF THREE DISPARATE IDEAS
ABSTRACT. Innovation in theory building usually follows the prescription of “normal science” as described by Thomas Kuhn in his account on the history of theoretical physics – see Kuhn (1962). What already had been postulated by Descartes (compare Descartes, 1637) as a signum of science, namely the ..
THE GEOPOLITICS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS: EMERGING CHALLENGE FOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND ECONOMICS
ABSTRACT. Rare earth elements (REE) contain unique chemical and physical properties such as lanthanum, are found in small concentrations, need extensive precise processes to separate, and are critical components of modern technologies such as laser guidance systems, personal electronics such as IPho..
THE MACRO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BREXIT: USING THE CBR MACRO-ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE UK ECONOMY (UKMOD)
ABSTRACT. This working paper uses the new Centre for Business Research (CBR) macro-economic model of the UK economy to investigate possible futures following the referendum decision to leave the EU. The model was originally developed in response to the failure of academic and commercial economic for..