Introduction This paper has two purposes. One is to examine the effect of soft budget constraints (SBC) on economies in transition from centralization to capitalism. The other is to survey our understanding of SBC more generally. Of course, this latter aim is also pertinent to the former. Current work on SBC follows in the tradition of the famous debate in the late 1930s and early 1940s on mark...

A large literature tests the structure-conduct-performance paradigm by regressions which use the profits-sales ratio as the dependent variable. That ratio is used because, under constant returns, it is generally supposed that profits/sales equals the Lerner measure of monopoly power. Profits/sales ratios are also used to make inferences about monopoly power for individual firms. This paper show...

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Monocytes Regulate T Cell Migration Through the Glia Limitans During Acute 1 Viral Encephalitis 2 3 Carine Savarin 1 , Stephen A. Stohlman 1 , Roscoe Atkinson 2 , Richard M. Ransohoff 1 , and Cornelia C. 4 Bergmann 1 * 5 6 1 Department of Neurosciences NC30, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 7 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA, 2 Department of Pathology, Kec...

This study explores the conditions under which experimentally primed anger in ̄uences both attributions of responsibility and the processes by which people make such attributions. Drawing on social functional theory, it was hypothesized that people are best thought of as `intuitive prosecutors' who lower their thresholds for making attributions of harmful intent and recommending harsh punishment...

We apply the discrete version of Calderón’s reproducing formula and Littlewood–Paley theory with weights to establish the H w → H w (0 < p < ∞) and H w → Lw (0 < p ≤ 1) boundedness for singular integral operators and derive some explicit bounds for the operator norms of singular integrals acting on these weighted Hardy spaces when we only assume w ∈ A∞. The bounds will be expressed in terms of ...