Dale Ballou is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research specializes in the economics of education, with particular focus on policies that effect teacher recruitment and performance. His work, much of it in collaboration with Professor Mike Podgursky of the University of Missouri, has appeared in the Journal of Human Resources, the Quarterly...

Nick Vonortas is the Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy and of the Science, Technology and Public Policy graduate programme of George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. Professor Vonortas’ teaching and research interests are in industrial organisation, the economic...

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of the effects of such programs or treatments. This recent theoretical literature has built on, and combined features of, earlier work in both the statistics and econometrics literatures....

The aim of this paper is provide an investigation into the effect of competition policy on industrial performance. The impetus for this research project was a British economy class taken on the London Economics Study Group in spring 2007.

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of the effects of such programs or treatments. This recent theoretical literature has built on, and combined features of, earlier work in both the statistics and econometrics literatures....

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In my first progress report (Yeung, 2000a) I concluded that a more pluralistic industrial geography in recent years has gone beyond conventional economic issues by incorporating some ‘new’ economic knowledges and by providing good glimpses of alternative worlds of industrial change. This incorporation relates to the introduction of social and cultural understandings of conventional economic iss...

Industrial engineering is concerned with analysis, design, and implementation of systems through optimal use of resources—human, material, energy, information, and financial. Systems may range from small units to extremely large operations. In order to accomplish these activities, the industrial engineer must be skilled in mathematics, physical sciences, management, and human relations as well ...

Expanding the Possibilities of Deliberation: The Use of Data Mining for Strengthening Democracy with an Application to Education Reform Juan D. Velásquez a; Pablo González b a Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile b Center for Applied Economics, Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineeri...

We show that the presence of sufficiently significant switching costs, which are increasing in the degree of product differentiation, generates an equilibrium configuration with maximal differentiation within the framework of a Hotelling model with linear transportation costs. The equilibrium with maximal differentiation offers a formalization of the idea that competing firms have noncooperativ...