Summary: My dissertation examines how public policies shape the financial decisions of firms and households. The first two chapters explore sources of private funding for higher education, how these interact with public policy, and how this affects decisions of both schools and students. The third chapter turns attention to the financial products households use to receive Social Security paymen...

This article reconsiders the Austrian school’s historical position regarding role of mathematics in economics light complexity economics’ approach to this issue. It first shows three typical objections traditional use raised by economics. Secondly, it presents critique algebraic mathematics, which is employed mainstream economics, and its proposal for using algorithmic computation. Then, analyz...

Split window (SW) methods, which have been successfully used to retrieve measurements of land surface temperature (LST) and sea surface temperature (SST) from MODIS images, were exploited to evaluate the SST data of three sections of Italian coastal waters. For this purpose, sea surface emissivity (SSE) values were estimated by adding the effects of salinity and total suspended particulate matt...

Affirmative action policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the welfare economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, compete for access to scarce positions. The problem of designing an efficient policy to raise the success rate in this competition of a disadvantaged identity group is considered....

Over the one and a half decades prior to the global financial crisis, advanced economies experienced a large growth in gross external portfolio positions. This phenomenon has been described as Financial Globalization. Over roughly the same time frame, most of these countries also saw a substantial fall in the level and variability of inflation. Many economists have conjectured that financial gl...

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Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not those of the Economics Education and Research Consortium. Research dissemination by the EERC may include views on policy, but the EERC itself takes no institutional policy positions

Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not those of the Economics Education and Research Consortium. Research dissemination by the EERC may include views on policy, but the EERC itself takes no institutional policy positions

The article presents an overview of the panel discussion held on December 9, 2022 in a mixed format at Faculty Economics Lomonosov Moscow State University international scientific conference «Sovereign Russia Revolting Reality: Economics, Technologics, Culture». was organized by research laboratory philosophy economy together with council «Center Social Sciences University». author participants...