Maximal pseudocompact spaces and the Preiss-Simon property

Maximal pseudocompact spaces

Maximal pseudocompact spaces (i.e. pseudocompact spaces possessing no strictly stronger pseudocompact topology) are characterized. It is shown that submaximal pseudocompact spaces whose pseudocompact subspaces are closed need not be maximal pseudocompact. Various techniques for constructing maximal pseudocompact spaces are described. Maximal pseudocompactness is compared to maximal feeble compa...

Pseudocompact Spaces

Spaces Whose Pseudocompact Subspaces Are Closed Subsets

Every first countable pseudocompact Tychonoff space X has the property that every pseudocompact subspace of X is a closed subset of X (denoted herein by “FCC”). We study the property FCC and several closely related ones, and focus on the behavior of extension and other spaces which have one or more of these properties. Characterization, embedding and product theorems are obtained, and some exam...

PROPERTY RIGHTS , FINANCE , AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Simon Johnson

Is investment constrained more by insecure property rights or by limited external finance? For five transition economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union we find that weak property rights limit the reinvestment of profits in startup manufacturing firms. Access to credit does not appear to explain differences in investment. At least in the early stages of post-communist reform, reta...

Some results and problems about weakly pseudocompact spaces

A space X is truly weakly pseudocompact if X is either weakly pseudocompact or Lindelöf locally compact. We prove: (1) every locally weakly pseudocompact space is truly weakly pseudocompact if it is either a generalized linearly ordered space, or a protometrizable zero-dimensional space with χ(x,X) > ω for every x ∈ X; (2) every locally bounded space is truly weakly pseudocompact; (3) for ω < κ...