Christopher J. Ellis, Line Rochefort, Gilles Gauthier, Reinhard Pienitz
The formation of many arctic wetlands is associated with the occurrence of polygon-patterned permafrost. Existing scenarios to describe and explain surface landforms in arctic wetlands (low-center...
Question: How might contrasting plant groups interact to confer ecosystem stability during the development of a wet heath: i.e. in response to two major environmental drivers, past hydrologic change...
Ellis, Christopher J., Coppins, Brian J., Dawson, Terence P., Seaward, Mark R.D.
Projection of species-response to climate change scenarios is a key tool in conservation strategy. Previous studies have projected climate change impacts for animal and vascular plant species using...
What Doesn’t Kill us Makes us Stronger: An Analysis of Corporate Leniency Policy. (2007)
Christopher J. Ellis, Wesley W. Wilson
(Very Preliminary First Draft: Please do not quote) We develop a simple model of cartel behavior under conditions of Bertrand competition with differentiated products. This model is then used to...
A note on updating beliefs when the number of observations increases in each period. (2007)
This paper derives the updating rules for beliefs when each successive period has one more new observation than the previous one. There are many applications, for example learning the quality of the...
November 2000. Industrial Groupings and Strategic FDI: Theory and Evidence. (2007)
Bruce Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis, Dietrich Fausten
We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may signi…cantly impact …rms ’ incentives to engage in FDI. Two channels are identi…ed by which ownership...
Competition in Taxes and Performance Requirements for Foreign Direct Investment * (2007)
Ronald B. Davies, Christopher J. Ellis, I. Introduction
Abstract: Tax incentives offered to attract firms engaged in foreign direct investment are often tied to performance requirements such as domestic content restrictions. The tax competition literature...
Privatization and Strategic Monitoring with Gaussian Priors. (2007)
Richard Disney, Christopher J. Ellis, Bulent Nomer, Jel Classi…cation L
This paper describes the sale and optimal regulation of a sequence of public utilities, where monitoring of regulatory compliance is costly. The government is concerned with the revenue raised by...
For many helpful discussions and comments we wish to thank Emilson (2007)
Christopher J. Ellis, Bill Harbaugh, Richard Cornes, Art Snow, Jurgen Eichberger
We construct a market based mechanism that induces players in a non-cooperative game to make the same choices as characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide...
Ellis, Christopher J., Coppins, Brian J., Dawson, Terence P.
Studies in the response of vegetation to predicted future climate change have focussed on vascular plants and are therefore largely unrepresentative of wider botanical diversity (i.e. comprising...
Privatizing the Commons and Economic Degradation (2005)
Ellis, Christopher J., Birdyshaw, Edward
17 p.
Corruption, Decentralization and Yardstick Competition (2005)
Ellis, Christopher J., Dincer, Oguzhan
16 p.
Corruption and Transparency in a Growth Model (2003)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fender, John
We develop a Ramsey type model of economic growth in which the "Engine of Growth" is public capital accumulation. Public capital is a public good, and is financed by taxes on private output. The...
Industrial groupings and foreign direct investment (2003)
Blonigen, Bruce A., Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
We explore worldwide foreign direct investment location decisions by Japanese manufacturing firms from 1985 through 1991. Our conditional logit estimates provide evidence that firms’ location...
Corruption and Transparency in a Growth Model. (2003)
Christopher J. Ellis, John Fender, Toke Aidt
We develop a Ramsey type model of economic growth in which the "Engine of Growth " is public capital accumulation. Public capital is a public good, and is financed by taxes on...
Industrial Groupings and Strategic FDI. (2002)
Bruce A. Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis, Dietrich Fausten
We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms ’ incentives to engage in FDI. While the previous literature has mainly focused on...
Competition in Taxes and Performance Requirements for Foreign Direct Investment (2001)
Davies, Ronald B., Ellis, Christopher J.
Tax incentives offered to attract firms engaged in foreign direct investment are often tied to performance requirements such as domestic content restrictions. The tax competition literature has...
Strategic FDI and industrial ownership structure (2001)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
To be added.
Strategic FDI and Industrial Ownership Structure (2001)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. We compare (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese kieretsu andKorean...
Strategic FDI and Industrial Ownership Structure (2001)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. We compare (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese kieretsu and...
Strategic FDI and Industrial Ownership Structure (2001)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. We compare (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese kieretsu and...
Strategic FDI and Industrial Ownership Structure (2001)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. We compare (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese kieretsu and...
Strategic FDI and Industrial Ownership Structure (2001)
Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. We compare (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese kieretsu and...
A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Non-Cooperative Environments: Theory and Applications (2000)
Ellis, Christopher J., Nouweland, Anne Van Den
We construct a market based mechanism that induces players in a non-cooperative game to make the same choices as characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide...
CAUSALITY IN POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES (1991)
ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER J., THOMA, MARK A.
One can easily identify four general models of political business cycles: office-motivated models (both forward and backward looking) and partisan models (again, both forward and backward looking)....
AN EQUILIBRIUM POLITICO-ECONOMIC MODEL (1989)
A politico-economic model is developed in which rationally formed forecasts are available to all traders. Systematic government policy is neutral, but a large majority of the electorate, those who...
LABOR MARKET SHARE CONTRACTS WHEN THE FIRM HAS TWO VARIABLE INPUTS (1988)
This paper extends Weitzman's analysis of share contracts. Firstly, a second variable input is introduced into a firm's production technology. Some share contracts give the firm an incentive to...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Simon Fraser University, 1984.
Corruption, Decentralization and Yardstick Competition
Christopher J. Ellis, Oguzhan C. Dincer, Glenn R. Waddell
Several empirical studies have found a negative relationship between corruption and the decentralization of the powers to tax and spend. In this paper we explain this phenomenon using a model of...
Privatizing the Commons and Economic Degradation
Christopher J. Ellis, Edward Birdyshaw
We develop a dynamic model of the exploitation of an environmental resource with endogenous property rights. We are able to explain both the evolution of property rights and environmental quality. In...
Corruption and Transparency in a Growth Model
Christopher J. Ellis, John Fender
We develop a Ramsey type model of economic growth in which the "Engine of Growth" is public capital accumulation. Public capital is a public good, and is financed by taxes on private output. The...
Industrial groupings and foreign direct investment
Bruce A. Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis, Dietrich Fausten
We explore worldwide foreign direct investment location decisions by Japanese manufacturing firms from 1985 through 1991. Our conditional logit estimates provide evidence that firms’ location...
Petrie, Keith J, Müller, Jan Tobias, Schirmbeck, Frederike, Donkin, Liesje, Broadbent, Elizabeth, Ellis, Christopher J, ...
Objective To investigate whether providing information about normal findings before a diagnostic test improves patients' reassurance and reduces anxiety about symptoms.
Uncertainty, Adjustment Costs and Expected keynesian Unemployment
In most macroeconomic models with quantity rationing regard agents as very naive, for despite sucessive periods of rationiong they continue to behave as if they have had no such experience. This...
Partisan Effects in Economies with Variable Electoral Terms.
Ellis, Christopher J, Thoma, Mark A
In fixed-time electoral economies, partisan surprises are associated with a change in government as in Alberto Alesina (1987). This paper models additional partisan surprises present in...
A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Noncooperative Environments: Theory and Applications
We construct a market-based mechanism that induces players in a noncooperative game to make the same choices as characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide...
Public Sector Capital and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy
Christopher J. Ellis, John Fender
A model where a dictator decides on both the level of public-sector capital and whether to democratize is constructed. Under dictatorship the labor market is monopsonistic; democratization involves...
Strategic FDI and industrial ownership structure
Christopher J. Ellis, Dietrich Fausten
We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. A comparison is made between (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese...
A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Non-Cooperative Environments: Theory and Applications
We construct a market based mechanism that induces players in a non-cooperative game to make the same choices as characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide...
"Competition in Taxes and Performance Requirements for Foreign Direct Investment"
Ronald B. Davies, Christopher J. Ellis
Tax incentives offered to attract firms engaged in foreign direct investment are often tied to performance requirements such as domestic content restrictions. The tax competition literature has...
Myopic Corporate Behaviour and CEO Quality
Andrew Dickerson, Christopher J. Ellis, John Peirson
We develop and test a simple asymmetric information model of CEO quality, in which CEOs know their quality and shareholders may only infer this from observations of corporate profits. CEOs signal...
Winners and Losers in a World with Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, and Social Welfare
Caplan, Arthur J., Ellis, Christopher J., Silva, Emilson C. D.
Industrial groupings and foreign direct investment
Blonigen, Bruce A., Ellis, Christopher J., Fausten, Dietrich
Bargaining and Wage Resistance in an Open Macroeconomic Model.
Ellis, Christopher J, Fender, John
An open macroeconomic model where wages and employment are determinedby bargaining between a representative firm and a representative union is developed. The model is characterized by a number of...
A model of Bilateral Bargaining in the Labour Market
In this paper we combine several strands of basic economic theory to provide a structure for analysing bileratal bargaining in the labour market. Using a quadratic revenue function and a Cobb-Douglas...
Temporary Equilibrium, Expectations and Notional Spillovers
In most temporary equilibrium models the market operates as follows. At the start of the market period the relative price vector is announced. Agents (consumers and producers) then compute and...
An Equilibrium Politico-Economic Model.
A politico-economic model is developed in which rationally-formed forecasts are available to all traders. Systematic government policy is neutral, but a large majority of the electorate, those who...
Labor Market Share Contracts When the Firm Has Two Variable Inputs.
This paper extends M. L. Weitzman's analysis of share contracts. Firstly, a second variable input is introduced into a firm's production technology. Some share contracts give the firm an incentive to...
Causality in Political Business Cycles.
Ellis, Christopher J, Thoma, Mark A
One can easily identify four general models of political business cycles: office-motivated models (both forward and backward looking) and partisan models (again, both forward and backward looking)....
Christopher J. Ellis, John Fender
In this paper we combine AcemogluÂ’s model of the economic origins of democracy with LohmannÂ’s model of political massprotest. This alllows us to provide ananalysis of the economic causes of...
Industrial Groupings and Strategic FDI: Theory and Evidence
Bruce A. Blonigen, Christopher J. Ellis, Dietrich Fausten
We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms' incentives to engage in FDI. While the previous literature has mainly focused on the...
CAUSALITY IN POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES
CHRISTOPHER J. ELLIS, MARK A. THOMA
One can easily identify four general models of political business cycles: office-motivated models (both forward and backward looking) and partisan models (again, both forward and backward looking)....
CAUSALITY IN POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES
CHRISTOPHER J. ELLIS, MARK A. THOMA
One can easily identify four general models of political business cycles: office-motivated models (both forward and backward looking) and partisan models (again, both forward and backward looking)....