This paper examines the response of the American tobacco companies to the health scare surrounding tobacco harm between 1953 and 1964, through an analysis of the operations of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIRC). We consider the reasons for the TIRC's establishment and subsequent...

Referencing once-confidential tobacco industry documents, we compare reviews of the epidemiological literature concerning tobacco harm that were carried out by the U.S. Tobacco Industry Research Committee (T.I.R.C.) and the U.S. Public Health Service and related groups during the 1950s and early...

This study estimates agency’s impact on the efficiency of sugar plantations on St.Vincent and the Grenadines during the early 19th century. Using a panel data set covering the years 1814-1829, a series of stochastic frontier models are estimated to investigate whether estates employing agents...

We model the optimal control of inequality for an economy experiencing growth in the mean and variance of the income distribution under conditions of uncertainty. Given quadratic losses in the level of inequality and the strength of the policy instrument, we derive a closed form solution for the...

The thermodynamic data of the system SnO2/SnO/Sn in the absence and presence of CH4 and C are calculated as a function of temperature. The direct dissociation of SnOx without any reducing substances needs temperatures T2000 K at 1 bar. In the presence of CH4 or C, SnOx can be reduced at T1250 K....

type="main" xml:id="rssa12025-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We present a Bayes sequential economic evaluation model for health technologies in which an investigator has flexibility over the timing of a decision to stop carrying out research and to conclude that one technology is preferred to another on...</p>

This study estimates agency's impact on the efficiency of sugar plantations on St. Vincent and the Grenadines during the early 19th century.  Using a panel data set covering the years 1814-1829, a series of stochastic frontier models are estimated to investigate whether estates employing agents...

We embed the Uzawa-Lucas human capital accumulation technology into the Mankiw-Romer-Weil exogenous growth model. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part we assume that the rate of technological progress is exogenous and deterministic and study the local dynamics of the model...