Is there Really no Conglomerate Discount?

There is no free lunch--really.

If There Is Really a Notable Concern about Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Foods?

In recent decades, biotechnologists have striven to improve the quantity and quality of food supply. Producing genetically modified (GM) foods is one of the main goals and many countries all over the world have approved the distribution and consumption of the labeled GM foods in their own regions. However, there are still few groups having concerns about allergenicity of GM foods. This review h...

There is no lexicon!

0. Introduction Within generative linguistics, underlying representations have been a sine qua non. Such representations have been thought to encode what is unpredictable or not governed by rules. Within Optimality Theory (henceforth OT), even though the rules are virtually gone, this view continues. The function GEN and EVAL pair an underlying representation with an optimal output. I argue aga...

Is There Really A Green Paradox?

Optimal climate policy is studied in a Ramsey growth model with exhaustible oil reserves, an infinitely elastic supply of renewables, stock-dependent oil extraction costs and convex climate damages. We concentrate on economies with an initial capital stock below that of the steady state of the carbon-free economy and the initial cost of oil (extraction cost plus scarcity rent and social cost of...

1 Is There Really a “ Border Effect ” ?

The observed excess price variability in cross-border city pairs compared to that in withincountry city pairs has been defined as the “border effect.” We used a unique data set from cities that were in the same country at one time and were in two separate countries later on to examine the effects of the presence of a national border on price variability. Interestingly a border-like effect was d...