It has long been recognized that the media play an essential role in democracy. However, even in the absence of censorship, the government may in‡uence news content by maintaining a “cozy”relationship with the media. This paper develops a simple model of democratic politics in which the actual freedom of the press is endogenous. In equilibrium, the features of the media market determine the abi...

In a remarkable empirical study of 168 U.S. manufacturing plants, James Medoff and Jon Fay (1985) have examined the magnitude of labor hoarding during economic contractions. They found that during its most recent trough quarter, the typical plant paid for about 8 percent more blue-co&t hours than were needed for regular production work. Some of these hours were used for other worthwhile work, a...

Disorder in the 1D spinless Holstein model. Abstract: We investigate a spinless fermion system on a one dimensional lattice interacting locally with the optical modes of a quantized phonon field: the Holstein model. The system is shown to have a disordered ground state, for small enough coupling, at any density. This is in contrast to the non quantized phonon case, the static Holstein model, wh...

Y. Fernandez-jalvoa,., T, Kingb, P, Andrews c, L. Yepiskoposyan d,e, N, Moloneya,b, j, Murrayf, P, Dominguez-Alonso g, L. Asryan h, P, Ditchfield i, ]. van der Made a, T, Torresj, P, Sevilla g, M, Nieto Diaz a,k, I. Caceres', E, Allue', M,D, Marin Monfort a, 1. Sanz Martin a a Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC),jose Gutierrez Abascal, 2. 28006 Madrid, Spain h Institute of MaIL 25 Davit...

This study aims at exploring ink spreading, which causes significant colour deviations in ink-jet printing. We present a method for investigating this phenomenon by considering only a limited number of cases. Using a combinatorial approach based on Pólya’s counting theory, we determine a small set of ink drop configurations which allows to deduce the ink spreading in all other cases. This impro...

[Abstract] Is tax evasion beneficial or harmful to growth? We approach this question by extending Persson and Tabellini’s (1994) growth model to a plausible world where individuals differ not only in terms of their skill in earning income but also in terms of their skill in concealing income from the tax authority. The Persson-Tabellini model identifies a fundamental tradeoff for redistribution...

A new species of the genus Paravillersia Kuznetsov, 1978 (Acari: Stigmaeidae), P. jamaliensis Khaustov sp. nov. is described from mosses on fen in Western Siberia, Russia. The supplementary description of Paravillersia grata Kuznetsov, 1978 is provided based on the type material. 

We report the kinetic study of the substitution reaction of a cationic platinum(II) complex [Pt(dpma)Cl](+) (dpma identical with di(2-picolyl)amine) with thioacetate in room temperature ionic liquids {[C(4)C(1)im][NTf(2)], [C(4)C(1)py][NTf(2)], [C(4)C(1)py][OTf] and [(C(3)O)C(1)im][NTf(2)]} and molecular solvents (water, methanol and DMSO). The reaction was studied as a function of the nucleoph...

Hyungjun Im, M.D., Jeong Don Chae, M.D., Minseok Yoo, M.D., So-Young Lee, M.D., Eun Ju Song, M.D., Su-Ah Sung, M.D., Young Hwan Hwang, M.D., Jeong Hwan Shin, M.D., and Young-Uk Cho, M.D. Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, and Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Eulji General Hospital, College of Medicine, Eulji University, Seoul; Department of Laboratory Medicin...

We consider insurance markets with adverse selection and propose a mechanism under which a separating Nash equilibrium always exists (even when a Rothschild-Stiglizt equilibrium does not). This equilibrium is unique and always (interim) incentive efficient. In our setting, the Rothschild-Stiglizt equilibrium exists and coincides with ours only if the former is incentive efficient. Otherwise, ou...