The paper econometrically investigates the determinants of advertising intensity in the manufacturing industry of São Paulo, Brazil in 1996 taking as reference an extensive survey carried out by Fundação SEADE. The preliminary investigation indicated a substantial degree of endogeneity in...

The paper investigates whether expectations data are consistent with nonlinear dynamics possibly involving deterministic chaos. Survey data on exchange rate expectations for four different currencies over one-week and one-month prediction horizons are considered. The evidence indicates that one...

The paper investigates the robustness of different efficiency measures that can support the implementation of diverse forms of incentive regulation in the context of U.S. telecommunications. Comparisons, in terms of an output orientation, are considered for efficiency scores obtained from Data...

Indirect assessments of market conduct have become widespread in the New Empirical Industrial Organization-NEIO literature. Recently, Steen and Salvanes (1999) provided a flexible dynamic econometric formulation of the approach advanced by Bresnahan (1982) and Lau (1982). The present paper...

The paper assesses the efficiency consequences of different regulatory regimes for US local telephony. Specifically, alternative regulatory regimens (price-cap regulation and incentive regulation) are contrasted with traditional rate-of-return regulation (ROR). Relative efficiency scores are...

The article investigates a distributional implication of Gibrat's Law (GL) in the context of English counties in the eleventh century, taking as reference population data from the Domesday Book. Tests for the log-normality of the size distribution (including specific assessments of the skewness...