This paper investigates the significance of Research and Development (R&D) spillovers through intraand international trade in intermediate goods for productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries during 1973-1994. In the model, four different sources of R&D are identified: R&D conducted in the particular industry itself, R&D conducted in the same industries in other countries, R&D conducted ...

Significant progress has been made in recent years for modeling spatial economic impacts of disasters in a regional context (for example, Okuyama and Chang eds. Modeling the Spatial Economic Impacts of Disasters, forthcoming). While these advancements are more toward modeling strategies based on conventional frameworks, little has been dealt with the theory on economics of disasters, since the ...

In this report, the concept of “Home First” is introduced for those children who require long-term, non-kin placements. The term connotes a placement engendering stability and continuity; in conjunction with an evaluation historical, theoretical, empirical evidence surrounding different forms out-of-home placement, including group-care placements foster family care. light these observations stu...

Mark Blaug played a central role in the development of the field of the methodology of economics, alongside his theoretical work and contributions to the history of economic thought. The purpose, in this article, is to focus on his contributions to the topic of ‘formalism in economics’, in relation to his methodological commentaries on the Popperian and Lakatosian approaches to the philosophy o...

Software is valuable when it produces information in a manner that enables people and systems to meet their objectives more effectively. Software engineering techniques have value when they enable software developers to build more valuable software. Software economics is the sub-field of software engineering that seeks improvements which enable software engineers to reason more effectively abou...

introduction: there are many factors affecting crime rates. economic factors are one of them. also, nature of crimes and the effects of economic factors on them are different. economic crimes have a specific importance in economics of crime. researchers in iran don’t investigate the determinants of crime, especially economic crimes. thus, in this paper we investigate the short- and long run eff...

consumer behavior is the most important issues in microeconomics. in neoclassical economics it is assumed that in order to reach the goals, human behavior is based on absolute rationality. while, simon criticizes the paradigm assumptions of neoclassic school and introduces the bounded rationality. since, because of uncertainty and lack of access to enough information, human faces with limited c...