Using micro-level panel data from villages in rural Ethiopia, the paper uses standard decompositions of income changes and develops a new decomposition of poverty changes to analyse the determinants of growth and poverty changes during a period of economic reform (1989-95). Consumption grew and...

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Identification is an essential attribute of any models parameters, so we consider its three aspects of uniqueness, correspondence to reality and interpretability. Observationally-equivalent over-identified models can co-exist, and are mutually encompassing in the population; correctly-identified...

Many groups have to make decisions over multiple interconnected pro-positions. The doctrinal paradox or discursive dilemma shows that propositionwide majority voting can lead to inconsistent collective outcomes even when individual judgments are all consistent. How likely is the occurrence of...

The condition for when a price control increases consumer welfare in perfect competition is tighter than often realised.  When demand is linear, a small restriction on price only increases consumer surplus if the eleasticity of demand exceeds the elasticity of supply; with log-linear or...

Competition between investment banks for lead underwriter mandates in IPOs is fierce, but having committed to a particular bank, the power of the issuer is greatly reduced.  Although information revelation theories justify giving the underwriters influence over pricing and allocation, this...

Existing methods of reconstructing historical Euro-zone data by aggregation of the individual countries’ data raises numerous difficulties due to past exchange rate changes. The approach proposed here is designed to avoid such distortions, and aggregate exactly when exchange rates are...

UK inflation varied greatly over 1865-1990, in response to many policy and exchange-rate regimes, two world wars and oil crises, and major legislative, and technological changes. It is modelled as responding to excess demands from all sectors of the economy: goods and services, factors of...

The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world’s second superpower despite the small size of its malfunctioning planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanism were...