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This paper presents the results of empirical research on Sri Lanka's tea industry. The presented data consist of 87annual observations of prices and quantities for various inputs and outputs from 54 different Sri Lankan tea estates. The estimated parameters were tested as to their consistency with the standard neo-classical hypotheses of separated profit functions. The results were used to measure economies of scale and elasticities and to draw conclusions about efficiency and to conduct simulations. (DÜI-Sbt)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Dedication Page -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Temperance History in Comparative Perspective -- Origins of the Drink Question -- Voluntary Association and Temperance Reform -- Social Reform or Social Control? -- Chapter 2 Volkserhebung Wider Den Branntwein: The Early German Temperance Movement -- Society and Politics in the German States, 1815-48 -- The Schnaps Revolution -- The Nineteenth-Century Alcohol Problem -- Origins of the Nineteenth-Century temperance Reform -- The Temperance Reform in the German States -- The Social and Geographical Contours of the German Temperance Movement -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 Decline and Renewal: 1848 and Beyond -- Temperance and Politics in the revolution of 1848 -- The Crisis of the Temperance Movement -- Industrialization and Popular Drinking Behaviour -- The Rebirth of the German Temperance Movement -- The Drink Question and the 'zweite Reichsgründung' -- A Manifesto for the Temperance Reform -- The Failure of the 'Trunksuchtgesetz' and the Origin of the German Association for the Prevention of Alcohol Abuse -- Note to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 The German Association for the Prevention of Alcohol Abuse 1883-1914 -- The DV in Wilhelmine Germany -- The Social Activism of the Bildungsbürgertum -- The Drink Question and the Social Question -- 'Better Attitudes, Better Habits, Better Facilities, Better Laws' -- Administrative Controls -- The Failure of Temperance Legislation -- The DV and the Spirits Monopoly -- Chapter 5 German Social Democracy and the Drink Question -- The DV and the Socialist Labor Movement -- The Socialist Dabate on the Drink Question -- The German Abstinent Workers' League -- The Party Congress at Essen (1907).

This book brings a constructivist approach to analyzing public goods by recognizing that preferences are socially constructed from the actors' identities. This synthesis of constructivism and rational choice provides a deeper understanding of the decision to provide goods such as protecting human rights and collective security.

"A bidding process can be organized so that offers are submitted simultaneously or sequentially. In the latter case, potential buyers can condition their behavior on previous entrants' decisions. The relative performance of these mechanisms is investigated when entry is costly and selective, meaning that potential buyers with higher values are more likely to participate. A simple sequential mechanism can give both buyers and sellers significantly higher payoffs than the commonly used simultaneous bid auction. The findings are illustrated with parameters estimated from simultaneous entry USFS timber auctions where our estimates predict that the sequential mechanism would increase revenue and efficiency"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

"We develop and estimate an entry model for second price and open outcry independent private value auctions where potential bidders receive an imperfectly informative signal about their value prior to deciding whether to pay a sunk entry cost. In this way the model flexibly allows for selection on values, which will affect an entrant's subsequent competitiveness, at the entry stage. As signals become more informative, the entry process exhibits greater selection as firms with higher values are more likely to enter. We allow for asymmetries across bidders and unobserved heterogeneity across auctions, which are important features of most data sets. We show how incorrectly assuming the extremes of either no selection (no signal) or perfect selection (prior knowledge of one's value) - the common alternatives in the literature - can yield incorrect estimates of model primitives and bias the results from counterfactuals. We apply our model to U.S. Forest Service timber auctions and find strong evidence in favor of a selective entry process. We take advantage of the flexible entry model to reevaluate the well known theory result that with fixed participation a seller prefers an extra bidder over the ability to set an optimal reserve price. In our model, the relative value of setting a reserve price and increasing the number of potential entrants to a revenue-maximizing seller will depend on the degree of selection. Our structural estimates imply that, if the USFS wants to maximize revenues, it will benefit more from adding an additional potential entrant than setting an optimal reserve price"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site