CFP technology (Berkhout, 1996a,b) addresses these limitations in a novel way. By breaking the model determination process into two simpler, more easily solved problems, those of operator estimation and macro model estimation, the final solution will typically be more accurate. Moreover, by providing rapid local convergence to the correct travel-time operators, migration analysis can be automat...

Efforts to identify and implement an appropriate tax neutrality benchmark have been persistent themes in scholarly policy debates on international taxation for fifty years. This paper questions whether the concept of has adequately specified analyzing efficiency properties systems. As distinct from closed-economy setting, open-economy neither revenues received nor burdens that pay may be taken ...

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in a hospital’s amenities raises its demand by 38.5% on average, wher...

Urban residents share access to a number of local resources in which they have a common stake. These resources range from local streets and parks to public spaces, to a variety of shared neighborhood amenities. Collectively shared urban resources suffer from the same rivalry and free-riding problems that Garrett Hardin described in his Tragedy of the Commons tale. Scholars have not yet worked u...