This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the ...

The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on ‘expert advice.’ Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture’s profitability, for example, by ...

We report new experimental evidence of the household response to weekday differentials in peak and off-peak electricity prices. The data come from Auckland, New Zealand, where peak residential electricity consumption ...

While two different streams of literature exist investigating 1) the relationship between oil prices and emerging market stock prices and 2) oil prices and exchange rates, relatively little is known about the relationship ...

Increased wage inequality has been a sensitive policy issue in OECD economies in recent decades. A shortcoming in the literature investigating its causes, especially with regard to the role of new technology, is that ...

This paper examines international business cycle transmission within a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model featuring an endogenously determined trade pattern. In contrast to existing literature, this ...

Using data from the New Zealand dairy industry for the year 1993, this paper estimates farm-specific technical efficiencies and mean technical efficiency using three different estimation techniques under both constant ...

This paper reports on preliminary findings of a cognitive task analysis conducted at an ambulance despatch control center. The intense and dynamic nature of the decision making environment is first described, and the ...

Multinational firms may enter a market by different modes of foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper endogenizes both the mode and the size of FDI. It shows that the credibility of greenfield investment decides on the ...

This paper documents expropriation of foreign direct investment (FDI) across all developing countries for the 1993-2006 period, extending work by Kobrin (1980, 1984) and Minor (1994). This unique data set on worldwide ...