Showing papers by "School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences published in 1990"
01 Jan 1990
347 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed cross-sectional evidence on income inequality in developing countries within a consistent theoretical framework where the major explanatory variables are factor endowments, their ownership structure and foreign trade distortions.
327 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of asymmetries of information between contractors, i.e., observable but unverifiable information shared by the parties but unavailable to outsiders like courts.
53 citations
TL;DR: This article found a frequency effect for bisyllabic words, even though they were shorter than uncompressed monosyllables, and interpreted the dual code hypothesis on the basis of the prelexical code.
52 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present some difficulties encountered by rural electrification programs in developing countries: rising costs of connection in sparsely populated areas, financial drain to electric utilities, uncertainties concerning the economic impact of electrification, etc.
12 citations
TL;DR: The program is intended for managing images and films used in the fields of visual psychophysics, electrophysiology, and so forth, and is written in Turbo-C.
Abstract: In this paper, we describe a software package, LEDA, for editing two-dimensional images and films. It is written in Turbo-C and was first conceived to work with a high-resolution graphics card (Adage PG90/10, 2,048 × 1,023 × 8 bits) on an IBM PC/AT or compatible computer. The program is intended for managing images and films used in the fields of visual psychophysics, electrophysiology, and so forth.
8 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider market demand functions with a two-sector representation, where prices in any one sector depend only on prices in that sector, the vector of utilities, and a scalar aggregate which in turn may depend upon everything.
Abstract: In both theoretical and empirical research it is a common practice to partition the economy into (at least) two sectors in order to conduct partial-equilibrium analysis. One merely hopes that general-equilibrium consequences will not obviate all of the analysis of the sector or market in question. In this paper we consider market demand functions which have a two-sector representation. In such economies the aggregate compensated demands in any one sector depend only on prices in that sector, the vector of utilities, and a scalar aggregate which in turn may depend upon everything. In particular, prices in the other sector appear only through this aggregate. In a single-consumer economy this division into two sectors carries with it no further implications. However, when there are three or more consumers, economies with a two-sector representation, which may contain public as well as private goods, must fall into a small number of broad classes which are quite restrictive. This means that the two-sector assumption is far less innocuous than one might have previously believed and that there are some phenomena which simply cannot be investigated in this framework.
3 citations
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