Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we explore the relationship between body mass and wages. We use quantile regression to provide a broad description of the relationship across the wage distribution. We ...

I present a theory of random consumer demand. The primitive is a collection of probability distributions on budgets. Axioms constrain these distributions, including analogues of preference axioms, such as transitivity, ...

We formulate a descriptive dynamic macroeconomic model of the Keynes-Wicksell type which incorporates goods, labour and financial markets. The model has well specified budget constraints with respect to the economic agents ...

In July 2000, Australia undertook a major step in reforming its tax system by introducing a Goods and Services Tax (GST). This tax replaced part of the government¿s revenue from its indirect tax with an across the board ...

The prolonged systemic crisis in international financial markets commencing in 2007 was also a crisis in corporate governance and regulation. The apparent ascendancy of Anglo-American markets and governance institutions ...

This paper re-examines the impact of endogenous money in a neoclassical model with interest-sensitive expenditures. It first outlines a benchmark model with exogenous money and the usual full employment and money ...

There is an extant literature investigating the relation between futures price limits and the volatility of futures price changes. An equally impressive number of papers investigates margin levels and their relation with ...

Firms that undergo a second LBO transaction are unique because they have a second experience in the capital markets after being privately held. Motivations for repeated LBOs may differ from first-time LBOs--because of the ...

In this paper we discuss some designs that have been used to train mediators for dispute resolution and tabulate some small examples.

Technological change and renewable energy are considered the scientific solution to human-generated climate change - need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - social theory of environmental change - main drivers of emissions ...