in Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Chinese translation forthcoming from SDX Publishers) Robert J. Franzese, Jr.* ABSTRACT: This chapter considers institutional complementarities at the macroeconomic level. It examines unemployment and inflation management in developed democracies, s...

CRSP Research Report 99-138 The CRSP will not be distributing this publication. Copies may be obtained by writing to the authors. Non-parametric estimation of returns to investment in Honduras shrimp research Siddhartha Dasgupta and Carole R. Engle Aquaculture/Fisheries Center University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Pine Bluff, AR 71611 USA This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate the...

This special issue presents selected papers concerning the contribution of operational research (OR) to supporting strategy. Here, we understand the phrase ‘supporting strategy’ in its broadest sense: from working with members of a management team to help them articulate and evaluate strategic priorities at different organisational levels (eg departmental, business unit, corporate), to redesign...

This article reviews the literature on work motivation in the public sector, with careful attention to the underlying theoretical assumptions of this body of work and the empirical evidence it has generated. The topic of work motivation has received relatively little attention in the public sector; the research that does exist has been largely data driven, guided at best by theories that have n...

The parent of a young adult son affliaed with schizophrenia describes his family's experience with schizophrenia and the mental health system. As chairman of the California Task Force for the Seriously Mentally I1l, he outlines the planning process by which a bill was drafted that ultimately may revamp the entire mental health system. Passed by the California legislature and signed into law by ...

This essay concerns how the Federal Reserve’s role as a payment services provider can best be aligned with its broad mission to foster the integrity, efficiency, and accessibility of the U.S. payments system. A recommended strategy involves specialization in providing services where the central bank has a comparative advantage—notably, services directly related to providing a comprehensive, sec...

We investigate how key school and community characteristics interact with the characteristics of individual students and families in determining the enrollment patterns in public and private schools. Using unique, nationallyrepresentative, individual-level data, we find evidence that a number of factors plausibly influenced by public policy (e.g., school-district concentration, student-teacher ...