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Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts (2018)
Book Chapter
Miyamura, S. (2018). Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts. In H. Peter (Ed.), An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112923

The emerging literature on institutional functionalism opens opportunities for historically and socially sensitive analysis of institutions, especially if it is complemented by a material understanding of institutions and their location within the wi... Read More about Rethinking labour market institutions in Indian industry: forms, functions and socio-historical contexts.

A Bicentenary Review of Ricardo’s Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency (2017)
Journal Article
Laskaridis, C. (in press). A Bicentenary Review of Ricardo’s Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency. History of Economics Review, 65(1), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10370196.2016.1266727

This year commemorates the bicentenary of one of David Ricardo’s lesser known publications, an 1816 pamphlet: Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency. This paper explores the meaning and significance of this work and presents a variety of int... Read More about A Bicentenary Review of Ricardo’s Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency.

Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey (2016)
Journal Article
Marois, T., & Muñoz-Martínez, H. (2016). Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey. Research in political economy, 31, 165-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020160000031010

This article aims to expose the economic and political relations of power disguised in the concept of financial risk as institutionalized in post-crisis economic policies and practices. We do so by examining, from a historical materialist approach, t... Read More about Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey.

Production Complexity, Adaptability and Economic Growth (2015)
Journal Article
Ferrarini, B., & Scaramozzino, P. (2016). Production Complexity, Adaptability and Economic Growth. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 37, 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2015.12.001

This paper analyzes the impact of production complexity and its adaptability on the level of output and on its rate of growth. We develop an endogenous growth model where increased complexity raises the rate of economic growth but has an ambiguous ef... Read More about Production Complexity, Adaptability and Economic Growth.

Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda? (2015)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., & Bargawi, H. (in press). Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33(1), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2015.1021213

This article explores macroeconomic policies in Uganda in the wake of the global financial crisis and following the publication of the 2010 National Development Plan. Despite apparent changes in rhetoric regarding macroeconomic policies by the Uganda... Read More about Moving beyond the paradox of macroeconomic stability in Uganda?.

Discretionary Enforcement and Strategic Interactions Between Firms, Regulatory Agency and Justice Department: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Germani, A. R., Morone, A., Morone, P., & Scaramozzino, P. Discretionary Enforcement and Strategic Interactions Between Firms, Regulatory Agency and Justice Department: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. London

This paper presents a game theoretic morphological analysis of the U.S. environmental authorities’ (i.e., EPA and DOJ) behavioural mechanisms, based on strategic interactions among the players. The models explore the role of discretion that such auth... Read More about Discretionary Enforcement and Strategic Interactions Between Firms, Regulatory Agency and Justice Department: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation.

Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators (2013)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2013). Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators. Food Policy, 39, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.12.003

In the last few years high and unstable food and agricultural commodity prices and concerns about population growth, increasing per capita food demands and environmental constraints have pushed agriculture and food production up national and internat... Read More about Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators.

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Prices for Funeral Homes in US States (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Canofari, P., Marini, G., & Scaramozzino, P. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Prices for Funeral Homes in US States. Rome, Italy

The need for a proper burial is widely felt. This paper makes use of an original data set to explore the relationship between the prices of cemetery plots and the prices of housing. It considers a simple model where the services from both real estate... Read More about To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Prices for Funeral Homes in US States.

The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices (2012)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2012). The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices. Food Security, 44(4), 633-645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-012-0210-3

There is widespread concern about the impact of recent price rises on the welfare and food security of poor people and about future impacts of high prices. Responses to these concerns are, however, sometimes clouded by lack of clarity about the natu... Read More about The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices.

Conceptualising seasonal financial market failures and credit rationing in applied rural household models (2012)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2012). Conceptualising seasonal financial market failures and credit rationing in applied rural household models. Zeitschrift für ausländische Landwirtschaft, 51(1), 113-133

A wide variety of farm household models have provided a valuable theoretical basis for empirical and conceptual analysis of interactions between production and consumption resource allocations of poor rural people. A weakness of common applications o... Read More about Conceptualising seasonal financial market failures and credit rationing in applied rural household models.

Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory (2009)
Journal Article
Adriani, F., & Sonderegger, S. (2009). Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory. Journal of Public Economics, 93(11-12), 119-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.08.001

We present a model of intergenerational transmission of pro-social values in which parents have information about relevant characteristics of society that is not directly available to their children. Differently from existing models of cultural trans... Read More about Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory.

Price signaling and the strategic benefits of price rigidities (2009)
Journal Article
Adriani, F., & Deidda, L. (2009). Price signaling and the strategic benefits of price rigidities. Games and Economic Behavior, 67(2), 335-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2009.03.005

We analyze trade between a perfectly informed price setting party (seller) and an imperfectly informed price taker (buyer). Differently from most of the literature, we focus on the case in which, under full information, it would be inefficient to tra... Read More about Price signaling and the strategic benefits of price rigidities.

Integrating contested aspirations, processes and policy: development as hanging in, stepping up and stepping out (2009)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2009). Integrating contested aspirations, processes and policy: development as hanging in, stepping up and stepping out. Development Policy Review, 27(2), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00439.x

There are continuing disagreements regarding aspirations and processes in development and appropriate policies for promoting these. This paper proposes a dialogue around a conceptualisation of development as involving three complementary processes: ‘... Read More about Integrating contested aspirations, processes and policy: development as hanging in, stepping up and stepping out.

Coordination risk and cost impacts on economic development in poor rural areas (2009)
Journal Article
Dorward, A., Kydd, J., Poulton, C., & Bezemer, D. (2009). Coordination risk and cost impacts on economic development in poor rural areas. The Journal of Development Studies, 45(7), 1093-1112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380802550277

This paper addresses issues relevant to a critical problem in economic development: how to get rapid pro-poor economic growth in poor rural areas in Africa and South Asia where most of the world’s dollar a day poor live. It examines constraints to th... Read More about Coordination risk and cost impacts on economic development in poor rural areas.

From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory (2008)
Book
Fine, B., & Milonakis, D. (2008). From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203887110

Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how ec... Read More about From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory.