In economics, the local knowledge advantage is arguably one of the key arguments in favor of decentralizing the public sector. However, empirical investigations of this particular effect have been scarce. This paper tests the existence of the local knowledge advantage in a real-world setting. Specifically, it looks at the variation in local knowledge across regions based on the origins and care...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused devastating public health, economic, political, and societal crises. We performed a comparison study of COVID-19 outbreaks in states with Republican governors versus Democratic the United States between April 2020 February 2021. This research shows that 1) had tested more people for have higher testing rates than those governors; 2) confirmed c...

This article aims to identify the representations of “foreign” people (inorodtsev) Siberia in reports local governors-general, define context their actualization, find mutual relations between official position regional authorities towards socio-cultural characteristics indigenous population, its economic situation and legal status, with Russians narratives “foreigners’ issue” Russian periodica...

A method is described for set-point tracking in nonlinear systems when pointwise-in-time input and/or state inequality constraints are to be enforced. It consists of adding to a primal compensated system a nonlinear device called command governor (CG) whose action is based on the current state, set-point and prescribed constraints. The CG selects at any time the system input via a receding-hori...

The article deals with the local-specific features of functioning grammatical forms in Spanish language Mexican state Oaxaca. Examples influence Native American languages on structure are analyzed and given. co-existence dominant Indian had an impact variant Spanish. During three hundred years colonization, cultural diversity State Oaxaca was mixed expanded. Thus, a mixture Spanish, autochthono...