In a recent paper Burrell (2005a) introduced two new measures both based on the Gini mean difference for measuring the similarity of concentration of productivity between different informetric distributions. The first was derived from Dagum’s (1987) notion of relative economic affluence (REA); the second – in some ways analogous to the correlation coefficient – is a new approach giving the so-c...

How is the perceived attractiveness of a price influenced by the context or sample within which it appears? Current models of price judgment are often based on psychophysical models of the contextual judgment of non-economic stimuli. These existing models accommodate a number of contextual effects, but do not allow for the possibility, motivated by independent psychophysical data, that the weig...

Humans appear to have an inherent prosocial tendency toward one another in that we often take pleasure in seeing others succeed. This fact is almost certainly exploited by game shows, yet why watching others win elicits a pleasurable vicarious rewarding feeling in the absence of personal economic gain is unclear. One explanation is that game shows use contestants who have similarities to the vi...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology transfer through the imports of intermediate goods by developing countries developed countries with the emphasis on Iran economy. For this purpose, we used multi-sectoral and multi–regional computable general equilibrium GTAP model (multi-sectoral and multi-regional CGE model). The paper examined the effect of a ten pe...