The National Bureau of Economic Research organized a project to explore the economic issues facing the major art museums of the United States. For this purpose NBER defined economics broadly to include not only the financial situation of the museums but also the management and growth of museum...

Suppose that the Ordinary Least Squares regressors X follow a vector Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, with growth matrix bA. The limiting sample variance matrix V is of interest. If A=kI, k[greater-or-equal, slanted]0, then [not partial differential]V/[not partial differential]b[greater-or-equal,...

This paper examines the effects of union change in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion 1983–1995. We investigate not only the decline in union density but also the greater wage compression among unionised workers, as well as changes in union density across skill groups. For the private...

Research has downplayed the complex discursive processes and practices through which decisions are constructed and blurs the relationship between macro- and micro-levels. The article argues for a critical and ecologically valid approach that articulates how discursive practices are influenced...