Inflation at the time of the 1992 election was at its lowest level in 20 years. This fact might have been expected to give the incumbent Administration a significant advantage, since most previous research regarding voters’ economic preferences has found that American voters have a strong...

This paper uses a "sophisticated voter" model to infer the preferences of the Canadian public regarding macroeconomic policy and, more specifically, the optimal rate of inflation. Unlike most previous work on voter behaviour, the approach used here assumes that the public has some understanding...

Recent innovations in digital learning and web-based technologies have enabled scalability in educational services that has previously not been feasible presenting a potential disruption in traditional higher education markets. This paper explores the impact of these innovations in a vertically...

This paper examines the role of patent policy in a spatial model of sequential innovation. Initial entrepreneurs develop a new product market and anticipate that subsequent innovation may lead to a product line that consumers value more highly. The likelihood of sequential innovation increases...

Emerging markets economies often present profitable opportunities for entry by large mutinational firms domiciled in developed economies. Such entry has the potential to bring important gains to the emerging economy consumers as well. Yet at the same time, such foreign direct investment (FDI)...

This paper offers an analysis of the evolution of e-commerce markets. We develop a model in which an initial group of small, no-name click firms create such markets by offering horizontally differentiated customized or versioned products and competing in prices. Subsequently, a traditional brick...