In this paper, the production and consumption behaviour of food-secure and food-insecure farm households are studied in the presence of technological change. The technological change on the whole tends to imprve the food security status of the households. Research based technology (wheat variety...

Optimal linear and non-linear taxation models represent the ends of a spectrum of constraints on feasible tax systems. The continuum in between is little explored, despite the fact that nonlinear taxation Pareto dominates linear taxation, but linear taxation is the more common. The same is true...

A volume of recent experimental evidence suggests that individual preferences may not be independent of the consumer's vantage point. In particular agents may suffer from loss aversion (also known as the endowment effect and status quo bias). Allocations which appear desirable ex ante may...

We compare the random preference, Fechner, and constant error (or "tremble") approaches to the stochastic modelling of choice under risk. Various combinations of these approaches are used with expected utility and rank-dependent theory to generate a set of econometric models. These are estimated...

This paper draws on data from 73 UK Monopolies and Mergers Commission reports on monopoly between 1973 and 1995. It shows that there is a roughly two in three chance that the Commission will come to an adverse conclusion against the investigated firms in a given case. although the underlying...

This paper investigates the relative empirical performance of 3 stories of error' in decision-making experiments - finding that the constant-error-probability story does not fit particularly well, but that the white-noise and stochastic preference stories perform considerably better. The paper...

Conjectural variation models are popular in empirical research as they infer the degree of market power from real data. IO-theorists, however, disapprove it for lack of theoretical foundation, arguing that dynamic reactions are forced into a static model with the strategy space and time horizon...

The strategic literature on the choice between exporting and multinational production has looked only at the interaction between either (i) a single potential multinational (based in country A) and a single (or set of) domestic firm(s) (based in country B) or (ii) two potential MNEs based in...

This paper develops a theoretical model of contract duration. The model fills a gap in incomplete contract theories, which for the most part assume timeless contracting, or contracts which last for the full life of a specific investment. The model reveals an asymmetry between buyer and seller...

This paper examines the implications of habit forming hypothesis for welfare theory. both myopic and rational habit forming models are discussed. First, I analyse the main criteria proposed by myopic habit forming models for measuring individual and social welfare. I show that they are...