I develop a multi-country multi-industry model of trade that features heterogeneous consumers with non-homothetic preferences. I use the model to quantify the measurement errors in the welfare gains estimates caused by the assumption of a representative consumer (ARC). First, I reduce the world level of all trade costs by 15% and find that ARC overestimates (underestimates) the gains of the poo...

Association rules mining technique was employed to extract 6 that show the co-occurrences of attributes on illicit drug types, suspects’ demographics, and categories offences. A dataset 262 arrestees various offences utilized for extraction using apriori algorithm. The reveal different levels involvement with drugs by suspects varying ages. established provide a form segmentation which could gu...

Abstract This paper uses a surge in stop and search operations following high-profile murder to look at their effect on recorded crime. Difference-in-difference estimates using detailed geocoded data the street-level suggest doubling trebling of number searches streets close place murder. IV effects stops crime little property crime, weapons offences violent or drug offences. Some specification...

The proposed study refers to the comparative analysis of incriminating framework regarding offences destruction or damaging goods provided for in Art. 197 Criminal Code Republic Moldova and, likewise, offenses 253, 254 and 255 Romania, which incriminate prejudicial acts destruction, aggravated correspondingly, guilty destruction. investigation question, as a premise perfecting incidental protec...

As we outline a movement beyond the apparent creative stagnation in the videogames industry we envision possible transformations, beyond the gridlock a producer-consumer dichotomy, that propose to mobilize players as creative actors in a holistic experience. We propose to recognize the authoring roles players develop in their relation to the industry and the gaming community, that configure an ...

It is suggested that instead of attempting to adjust the consumer price index (CPI) after tax reform it is better to measure changes in after-tax income.

On October 6, 1979, the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System embarked on an aggressive policy to lower the inflation rate, which then stood near 12 percent. That effort succeeded: By the mid-1980s, the rate of change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was reduced to less than 4 percent on a three-year moving-average basis, as shown in figure 1. The commonly reported measur...

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) of a particular region is primarily calculated through aggregation of individual household observations. This aggregation is done following two schemes, plutocratic and democratic. While both of them are useful for certain purposes, none of them actually give proper attention to poor households. In this study, we have shown that weighting scheme with certain mathemati...

The aim with this article is to put the sexual grooming of children in teaching as a trust profession perspective. Because frequently precedes other offences, targeting it can help prevent such offences. However, author contends should not be targeted preparatory offence but an independent and form misconduct. This argument supported by fact that institutional context distinguishing features sc...