Role In Empirical Analysis Research Articles

The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate

AbstractHow do scholars formulate arguments about economic inequality? What is the role of empirical analysis? In what ways, if any, is the debate informed by ethical considerations? In this paper, we address these questions by evaluating one of the main arguments in Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, along with its endorsements and rebuttals. Applying Stephen Toulmin’s model of arguments to Piketty unearths a complex argument structure that must be understood for an evaluation to be possible. Of particular importance are the warrants that Piketty used to justify his conclusions from the empirical material. Our analysis revealed that the most influential rebuttals were targeted not at Piketty’s empirical inferences but the way he used these inferences to justify his claims. We also found value judgments to be an essential part of the justification process, making Piketty’s claims ultimately embedded in ethical considerations. We conclude that value judgments are intrinsic to scholarly arguments not only in economic inequality debates but also more broadly.

Antitrust economic analysis in food marketing channels: a global perspective

AbstractAntitrust enforcement concerning monopolies, mergers, and cartels is converging across all market‐oriented economies in the world. This convergence is based upon neoclassical economic analysis of industrial organization. The role of empirical economic analysis, however, has not converged as rapidly as the conceptual model because different countries have different enforcement institutions and strategies. This article explains how antitrust enforcement has evolved over time from public agencies to a market for enforcement that admits private parties. Private party law suits, and especially class action law suits on behalf of groups such as farmers and consumers, is a mechanism for redressing the often superior legal and economic resources that defendant corporations have and public agencies do not have. Enforcement and the role of empirical analysis are compared in the United States and other countries. Examples of enforcement from different countries illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Finally, some insights explain how economists function in enforcement and the attributes required for success.

The balcony of history

Although the history film has played an exceptionally powerful role in shaping our culture's understanding of the past, it continues to be one of the most neglected areas of both history and film studies scholarship. This essay explores some of the reasons why critical study of the history film seems to have remained in a perpetually embryonic state. Robert Rosenstone's History on Film/Film on History (Pearson, 2006) serves as a springboard for consideration of genre, the role of empirical analysis in film studies, and the large question of reenactment.

Tinjauan terhadap Metode Ekonometrika Lanjutan

Econometric models have been played an increasingly important role in empirical analysis in economics. This paper provides an overview on some advanced econometric methods that increasingly used in empirical studies.A panel data combines features of both time series and cross section data. Because of increasing availability of panel data in economic sciences, panel data regression models are being increasingly used by researcher. Related to panel data model, there are some methods that will be discussed here such as fixed effect and random effect. A new approach to panel data that developed by Im, Shin, and Pesaran (2002) for testing unit root in heterogenous panel is included in this overview.When we work with time series data, there are many problems that we must handle, most of them are unit root test, cointegration among non stationary variables, and autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity. Provided these problems, author also review about ADF and Philips-Perron test. An approch to cointegration analysis developed by Pesaran (1999), ARCH and GARCH model are also interesting to be discussed here.Bayesian econometric, that less known than classical econometric, is includcd in this overview. The genctic algorithm, a relatively new method in econometric, has bcen increasingly employed the behavior of economic agents in macroeconomic models. The genetic algorithm is based on thc process of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. By starting with a set of potential solutions and changing them during several iterations, the Genetic Algorithm hopes to converge on the most ‘fit’ solutions.

Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Analysis of Density-Dependent Legitimation in Organizational Evolution

geometric treatment of the niche. He defined the fundamental niche of a population as the hypervolume formed by the set of points for which the population's growth rate (fitness) is nonnegative. In other words, the fundamental niche consists of the set of all environmental conditions in which the population can grow or at least sustain its numbers. By extension, the fundamental niche of an organizational form consists of the social, economic, and political conditions required to sustain the functioning of organizations that embody the form. The geometric conception of the niche facilitates definition of the intersection of fundamental niches of pairs of populations. If two populations rely on completely different kinds of resources and depend on different kinds of social and political institutions, then their fundamental niches do not intersect. Otherwise, they do intersect, and it makes sense to measure their similarity in terms of the degree of intersection (or overlap, when only one or two environmental dimensions are considered). The concept of intersection of fundamental niches leads naturally to a definition of potential competition: The potential for two populations to compete is proportional to the intersection of their fundamental niches. (This is potential competition because the populations must exist in the same systems to actually compete.) It follows that two populations compete if and only if their fundamental niches intersect. The implied equivalence of niche intersection and competition has played a crucial role in allowing ecologists to relate naturalistic observations on realized niches to dynamic models of population growth and expansion. Hannan and Freeman (1977, 1989) argue that such equivalence can play a similarly central role in empirical analysis and theoretical analysis of organizational dynamics. When populations with intersecting fundamental niches inhabit the same system, potential competition is converted into actual competition. Under such conditions, the expansion of one population changes the conditions of existence of the others. In the case of competition, the presence of the competitor reduces the set (range) of environments in which the other populations can sustain themselves. Hutchinson coined the term realized niche to denote the restricted set of environments in which growth rates are positive in the presence of competitors (a subset of the fundamental niche). Except in the highly unusual case in which a population exists in isolation This content downloaded from 157.55.39.176 on Sat, 09 Apr 2016 06:40:26 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms