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A Positive Theory of the Income Redistributive Focus of Social Security
... by these programs. 2 In this paper, we provide a positive theory of why pension programs exist and why they exhibit these features. In particular, our current focus is on the intergenerational income ...
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The Ends and Means of Pollution Control: Toward a Positive Theory of Environmental Law
... law’s positive ideals to actual administrative practice we will paint a very different and much more muddled picture than this Article ...a positive theory of law, which identifies its aspirations, ...
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A positive theory of geographical mobility and social insurance
... Naturally, this paper does not argue that UI generosity is the only institutional factor accounting for differences in labor market performance and mobility. For instance, Bover et al. (1989), Cameron and Mullbauer (1998 ...
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A Contribution to the Positive Theory of Indirect Taxation
... It is essential to understand equilibrium outcomes produced by well-functioning political processes, and to examine how such outcomes change when imperfec- tions become part of the collective action. This implies that we ...
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And Lettuce is Nonanimal: Toward A Positive Theory of Voluntary Action
... endowment theory appears to offer a way to approach the allocation of resources in the nonprofit sector which respects the integrity of voluntary action without inappropriately reducing such action to the ...
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A positive theory of monetary policy and robust control
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Preemption and Products Liability: A Positive Theory
... the theory presented here, state law defective design claims should be preempted by the MDA in the case of Class III devices that undergo the pre-market approval ...
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A Contribution to the Positive Theory of Direct Taxation
... In this paper I analysed a probabilistic voting model of direct taxation where self-interested governments set their policies in order to maximise the probability of winning elections. Society is divided into groups who ...
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Notes V General Equilibrium: Positive Theory. 1 Walrasian Equilibrium and Excess Demand
... In this lecture we go on considering a general equilibrium model of a private ownership economy. In contrast to the Notes IV, we focus on positive issues such as existence, uniqueness, or stability of equilibria. ...
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The General Tenets of Positive Accounting Theory Towards Accounting Practice and Disclosure in Corporate Organizations in Nigeria
... Watts and Zimmerman (1978) develop a positive theory of the determination of accounting standards. They investigate the factors influencing management’s attitude (lobbying behavior) on accounting standards ...
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New existence theory of positive solutions to fourth order p-Laplacian elasticity problems
... At the same time, we notice that some new techniques via appropriate transformation are proved to be very effective in studying the solvability of differential equations. Such techniques have attracted the attention of ...
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The Theory of Abuse in Google Search: A Positive and Normative Assessment Under EU Competition Law
... Reaching the incorrect outcome in Google Search can lead to a chain of other incorrect interventions in Europe and beyond, as well as a reduction in incentives of other companies to take risks, invest and innovate. ...
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Existence of positive solutions for a generalized and fractional ordered Thomas Fermi theory of neutral atoms
... The Thomas-Fermi model (see [–]), named after Llewellyn Thomas and Enrico Fermi, is a quantum mechanical theory of electronic structure within many-body systems. In , Thomas and Fermi independently conceived ...
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Positive Psychology, Positive Prevention, and Positive Therapy
... Why did they not? And why has psychology been so focused on the negative? Why has it adopted the premise—without a shred of evi- dence—that negative motivations are authentic and positive emotions are derivative? ...
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The Theory of Abuse in Google Search: A Positive and Normative Assessment Under EU Competition Law
... a positive assessment of the application of Article 102TFEU and the relevant case law to the issues involved in Google Search on the assumption that the Commission may seek to place the facts under an existing ...
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Fractionating negative and positive affectivity in handedness: Insights from the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of personality
... a positive correlation between strength of hand preference and FFFS scores in right-handers only (the greater the preference for the right hand, the higher was the FFFS ...
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Strategic Judging Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence
... Table 1 presents the results for all crimes and for specific crime categories. To account for the large percentage of zero prison sentences (about 20% of the total), we use Tobit regressions on total prison sentence. 44 ...
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On the Minimum of a Positive Definite Quadratic Form over Non--Zero Lattice points. Theory and Applications
... Acknowledgement. The main catalyst for this work was the International Workshop on Interactions between Number Theory and Wireless Communication held at the University of York between 9–23 May 2014. The authors ...
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Degree theory and existence of positive solutions to coupled systems of multi-point boundary value problems
... Recently much attention has been paid to investigate sufficient conditions for existence of positive solutions to boundary value problems for fractional order differential equa- tions, we refer to [–] and the ...
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Positive Psychologists on Positive Psychology
... in positive psychology, strengths, positive emotions, gratitude, and mindfulness are being ...of positive psychology, people thinking in greater complexity and people challenging people and ideas, ...
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