In a complex economy, production is vertical and crosses jurisdictional lines. Goods are often produced by a global or national firm upstream and improved or distributed by local firms downstream. In this context, heightened products liability may have unintended consequences for consumer...

The present study examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in a three sectors model economy consisting of an organised sector, semiorganised sector and unorganised sector. If we consider that capital is immobile within sectors then an increase in FDI in organised sector will...

In a complex economy, production is vertical and crosses jurisdictional lines. Goods are often produced by a global or national firm upstream and improved or distributed by local firms downstream. In this context, heightened products liability may have unintended consequences for consumer...

In this paper I explore estimation of treatment response in blinded clinical trials when there exist placebo effects, i.e., when health outcomes are a function of not just the physiological effects of treatment, but also beliefs about treatment efficacy and treatment state. First, I argue that...

In this paper I criticize the methodology of existing studies that purport to find evidence of placebo effects in medical trials. Among other things, because these studies fail to define and properly model placebo effects, it is hard to determine the power of their results. I address the problem...