List of working papers 2002
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Working Paper
Author
Subject

Bob Searle

Federal fiscal relations in Australia - 2001(Download)

Bob Searle

The Australian fiscal equalisation system and capital transaction (Download)

Gary D. Libecap,
Zeynep Kocabiyik Hansen

"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925 (Download)

Ronald N. Johnson,
Gary D. Libecap

Transactions Costs and Coalition Stability under Majority Rule. (Download)

Simon Teitel

Globalization and its disconnects (Download), (published in The Journal of Socio-Economics, 34, 2005, 444-470).

Dag Fjeld Edvardsen,
Finn R. Førsund
International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities (Download), (published in Resource and Energy Economics, 25, 2003, 353-371).

Yakov Nikitin,
Evgueni Ponikarov
Large deviations of non-degenerate two-sample von Mises functionals (Download), (published in Mathematical Methods of Statistics, no.1, 15 (2006), 103-122).
Alessandra Durio
Yakov Nikitin
Asympotic efficiency of signed - rank symmetry tests under skew alternatives (Download), (published in Studi in Onore di Angelo Zanella, a cura di B. V. Frosini, U. Magagnoli, G. Boari, Vita e Pensiero, 2002, 223-239).
Finn R. Førsund,
Ove Wolfgang
The Compensation mechanism in the rains model: the Norwegian targets for acidification (Download)
Lennart Hjalmarsson, Finn R. Førsund
Are all scales optimal in Dea? Theory and empirical evidence (Download), (published in the Journal of Productivity Analysis, 21 (1) : 25-48, 2004).

John K. Dagsvik, Steinar Strøm
Analyzing labor supply behavior with latent job opportunity sets and institutional choice constraints (Download), (published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2006, 803-826).
Miroslav Prokopijevic
Does growth further improve economic freedom? (Download)
Vani K. Borooah
A Duration-Sensitive Measure of the Unemployment Rate: Theory and Application (Download)
Vani K. Borooah
Rational Actor Models in Political Science (Download)
Vani K. Borooah
A General Measure of the "Effective" Number of Parties in a Political System (Download)
Rolf Aaberge
Empirical Rules of Thumb for Choice under Uncertainty (Download)
Gary D. Libecap and James L. Smith
The economic evolution of petroleum property rights in the United States (Download)
Enrico
Colombatto
Towards a quasi-Lamarckian theory of institutional change (Download)
Todd
J. Zywicki
The Rule of Law, Freedom, and Prosperity (Download), (published  in Supreme Court Economic Review, vol. 10 : 1, 2003).
Finn R. Førsund Lennart Hjalmarsson
Calculating the scale elasticity in DEA models (Download), (published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55 (10), 2004, 1023-1038).
Finn R. Førsund
On the circularity of the Malmquist productivity index (Download)
Finn R. Førsund, Roberto Zanola
The performance of auction houses selling Picasso Prints (Download), (published in Applied Economics, 38 (12/12), 2006, 1425-1434).
Vani K. Borooah
The Role of Maternal Literacy in Reducing the Risk of Child Malnutrition in India (Download)
Vani K. Borooah,
Sriya Iyer
Vidya, Veda, and Varna: The Influence of Religion and Caste on Education in Rural India (Download)
Hans Holmén
NGOs, Networking, and Problems of Representation (Download), (published in the Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 44 (4), 2009, 429-448).
Kurt R. Leube
Preliminary Remarks on Mises in Interwar Vienna (Download)
Kurt R. Leube
On Menger, Austrian Economics, and the Use of General Equilibrium (Download)
Frederic J. Fransen
The Free Trade of Ideas:
Spreading the Classical Liberal Gospel of Richard Cobden and the Anti-Corn Law League (Download)
Alan L. Olmstead,
Paul W. Rhode
Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-60 (Download), (published in the Journal of Economic History, vol. 63, June 2003, 447-88, winner of the Cole Price).
Suri Ratnapala
Securing Constitutional Government: The Perpetual Challenge (Download), (published in The Independent Review:  a Journal of Political Economy,  VIII:1, 2003, 5-26).
Suri Ratnapala
Moral capital and commercial society (Download), (published in The Independent Review:  a Journal of Political Economy, VIII:2, 213-233, 2003).