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Industrial organization and trade liberalization : evidence from Korea
Get PDFDrawing on evidence about industrial organization and market structure, the authors develop a computable general equilibrium model in selected industrial sectors with increasing returns to scale. They use this model to estimate the welfare gains Korea would realize from abolishing the import restraints prevailing in 1982. Under constant returns to scale, they estimate welfare gains to be 1 percent of GDP. With increasing returns to scale in three industrial sectors, they estimate welfare gains ranging from -0.5 percent to 10 percent of 1982 GDP, depending on assumptions about the pricing behavior (markup pricing or Cournot competition) and profit levels that existed under protection.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Fraude et réforme de la fiscalité dans une économie à faible revenu : analyse à travers un modèle CGE appliqué à Madagascar
No full textMadagascar's weak administrative system and a complex tax structure with exemptions has led to tax evasion and smuggling. The paper reviews the main characteristics of this fiscal system, comparing it to that of other low income countries, noting a high reliance on distortionary taxes. This review is followed by general equilibrium estimates of reve¬ nue loss due to the combination of exemptions, tax evasion, and smuggling. The paper concludes with a series of calculations giving estimates of the welfare gain that would result from the application of less distortionary tax structures. The simulation results suggest that the excess burden of taxation would be greatly reduced if Madagascar moved further towards a tax system with uniform rates across sectors and across ins¬ truments. Relatively low uniform taxes would raise the same revenue as the structure prevailing in 1988 while at the same time reducing incentives for tax evasion and smuggling.La faiblesse du système administratif de Madagascar ainsi qu'une fiscalité complexe où les exemptions sont nombreuses ont favorisé la fraude fiscale et la contrebande. L'article examine les principaux aspects de ce système fiscal, en le comparant à ceux d'autres pays à faible revenu, soulignant une forte prédominance d'impôts inégalitaires. Un modèle CGE analyse ensuite la perte de recettes due à la combinaison des exemptions, de la fraude fiscale et de la contrebande. Enfin une série de calculs permet d'estimer l'amélioration qui résulterait de l'application d'une fiscalité moins inégalitaire. Les résultats de la simulation indiquent que le poids de la fiscalité pourrait être réduit de manière significative si Madagascar s'orientait davantage vers un système fiscal caractérisé par des taux uniformes selon les secteurs et selon les instruments. L'adoption d'impôts relativement bas et uniformes procurerait les mêmes recettes que celles obtenues en 1988 en réduisant en même temps les incitations à la fraude et à la contrebande.de Melo Jaime, Roland-Holst David W., Haddad Mona. Fraude et réforme de la fiscalité dans une économie à faible revenu : analyse à travers un modèle CGE appliqué à Madagascar. In: Revue d'économie du développement, 1e année N°1, 1993. pp. 63-89
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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