Employing quantitative techniques the author compares the validity of the national-interest model versus an interest-group model interpretation of the role of government industrial policy interventions in Taiwan's industrialization over the 1980s. He notes that the results offer little...

Finite mixture estimation (FME) is compared to estimated generalized least squares (EGLS) in the estimation of economies of size and production cost frontiers for Alabama dairy farms. FME provides several unique insights into the economic forces behind recent changes in Alabama's dairy industry....