Institutional Change in the Era of Globalization: A Comparison of Corporate Pension Policies in Japan and the U.S. by Monk, A

“…The relationship between globalization and institutional change is an issue frequently debated in economic geography and the social sciences. Some see firms, whatever their national culture or heritage, as facing common market forces that undermine self-determination and predict convergence towards a set of global best practice. …”

Deferred fees for universities. by Shephard, N

Decentralised dynamics for finite opinion games by Ferraioli, D, Goldberg, P, Ventre, C

“…These are games, important in economics and sociology, that model the formation of an opinion in a social network. …”

Host Country-Foreign Investor Bargaining Power and Investment Incentive Provisions in Multilateral Investment Agreements. by Mash, R

Nigeria and Indonesia by Bevan, D, Collier, P, Gunning, J

“…Provides a comparative analysis of the economic development of Indonesia and Nigeria over the period 1950-85, to learn why equitable growth took place in Indonesia but not in Nigeria after 1972, though the two countries ostensibly had similar opportunities. …”

Innovation and stock markets: international evidence on manufacturing and services. by Wójcik, D

A Common Factor Approach to Spatial Heterogeneity in Agricultural Productivity Analysis. by Eberhardt, M, Teal, F

An empirical behavioral model of price formation by Mike, S, Farmer, J

“…Although behavioral economics has demonstrated that there are many situations where rational choice is a poor empirical model, it has so far failed to provide quantitative models of economic problems such as price formation. …”

The future of the global food system. by Godfray, H, Crute, I, Haddad, L, Lawrence, D, Muir, J, Nisbett, N, Pretty, J, Robinson, S, Toulmin, C, Whiteley, R

“…A third set explores exogenous factors affecting the food system (climate change, competition for water, energy and land, and how agriculture depends on and provides ecosystem services), while the final set explores cross-cutting themes (food system economics, food wastage and links with health). Two of the clearest conclusions that emerge from the collected papers are that major advances in sustainable food production and availability can be achieved with the concerted application of current technologies (given sufficient political will), and the importance of investing in research sooner rather than later to enable the food system to cope with both known and unknown challenges in the coming decades.…”

A comparison of univariate time series methods for forecasting intraday arrivals at a call center. by Taylor, J

Livelihood diversification in rural Andhra Pradesh by Fenn, B, Galab, S, Jones, N, Wilson, I, Raju, D

R&D; in developing countries: what should governments do? by Neary, J

On the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation with advanced Monte Carlo methods. by Lee, A, Yau, C, Giles, M, Doucet, A, Holmes, C

How should we reconcile self-regarding and pro-social motivations? A renaissance of “Das Adam Smith Problem” by Gold, N

“…As the discipline of economics developed, it focused on the interaction of selfish agents, pursuing their private interests. …”

A Stronger China (Une Chine plus forte). by Yueh, L

“…IN the West, countries are facing the fallout from a deep recession and financial crisis. Economic growth is at best tenuous in advanced economies, most of which have large levels of national debt. …”

Does it matter where you come from? Vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the origin of investors. by Javorcik, B, Spatareanu, M

Competitive Nonlinear Pricing and Bundling. by Armstrong, M, Vickers, J

Rates of Return to Education by Gender in Pakistan. by Aslam, M

“…Earnings function estimates consistently reveal a sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women’s education being substantially and statistically significantly higher than men's. …”

Structural Time Series Analyser, Modeller and Predictor: STAMP 8.2. by Koopman, S, Harvey, A, Doornik, J, Shephard, N

The swashbuckling anthropologist: Henrich on The Secret of Our Success by Clarke, E, Heyes, C

“…We are sympathetic to this general view, the latest expression of the ‘California school’s’ view of cultural evolution, and impressed by the lively and interesting way that Henrich handles evidence from anthropology, economics, and many fields of biology. However, because we think it is time for cultural evolutionists to get down to details, this essay review raises questions about Henrich’s analysis of both the cognitive processes and the selection processes that contribute to cumulative cultural evolution. …”