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Parameterizing Case and Activity: Hyper-raising in Bantu
(2009)
Case theory has long played a crucial role in explaining the distribution of nominal
expressions. Raising constructions are a well-established case in point (Chomsky 1981,
George & Kornfilt 1981, Chomsky 2000, Chomsky ...
Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization
(Wiley, 2008)
This paper reviews and critiques the "opportunity discovery" approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic ...
An Anatomy of a Cartel: The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934
(Research in Economic History, 2008)
This paper explores the nature and causes of the cartel compliance crisis that befell the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) one year after its passage in 1933. We employ a simple game-theoretic model of the NIRA's ...
Politics and Productivity
(Western Economic Association International, 2003-07)
We use a stochastic frontier approach to study the effects of political and regulatory institutions on aggregate productivity in 39 countries from 1975 to 1990. We show that technical efficiency is positively related to ...