*Correspondence: Sasha R. X. Dall, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ, Exeter, UK e-mail: [email protected] The study of animal personality variation promises to provide significant new insight into the way that behavior evolves in animals, along with its ecological and evolutio...

Most non-economists would question whether economists know anything about culture. Indeed, given some faculty meetings I’ve been through, I imagine they might go so far as to say economists are uncultured. Although the second sentiment probably does go too far, there is certainly merit to the first. In particular, with a few exceptions (notably Kreps, 1990; Crémer, 1993; Lazear, 1995; Hodgson, ...

China's power grid sector, which combines transmission and distribution, has grown rapidly after the restructuring reform in 2002. We evaluate scale effect sector by employing a parametric Malmquist index based on heteroscedastic true fixed-effects stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency total factor productivity for 30 companies from 2002 2017. The results show that there ex...

Timothy Williamson’s Modal Logic as Metaphysics is, among much else, a detailed and complex defense of the metaphysical view he calls necessitism, the view that necessarily everything necessarily exists (is something), that although it may be a contingent matter how things are, what things there are is entirely a matter of necessity. The majority of contemporary modal metaphysicians reject this...

in recent years, economists have paid attention to the relationship between emotions and productivity. economists investigated the bi-directional effect of emotion and subjective well-being, such as happiness, on different economic variables, such as productivity, health, income, and so on. in this paper, we try to study the effect of income on labour force happiness in iran. for this purpose, ...

We answer positively to this question by using Maximum Lq-Likelihood (or Deformed Likelihood) estimator. This is based on a parameter which measures the aggregate quote of judgment in forecasting (game-based) system formed three players—Forecaster, Policy Maker and Reality. For first time econometric literature, we apply estimator dynamic derive robust version Kalman Filter—the Filter (DKF). Th...

We estimate government spending and tax multipliers in the United States via a flexible proxy-SVAR model, where identification is achieved by combining fiscal non-fiscal instruments with additional parametric restrictions. find that, while multiplier robustly estimated to be larger than one across different models, of sensitive combination that we use. unveil key factor behind these heterogeneo...

Abstract We investigate the productivity spillovers from UK government’s decision to use extensive property tax reductions as a key instrument stimulate innovation in smaller businesses and drive local growth. To capture complex interaction clustering of hierarchical effects, we apply non-parametric Random Effects Expectation Maximisation algorithm that complements more standard econometric est...