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Development of a Database Management System Design Involving Quality Related Costs
May 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the challenges in production information systems is to provide the right information relating to the quality costs. Hence, it is important to have a quality cost database management system...
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QoS Provisioning in Wireless Mesh Networks
October 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper authors describe how the contentionbased medium access mechanism of 802.11e, EDCA, can be enhanced in order to allow stations to reserve medium access for their multimedia...
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The Stability And Growth Pact: Lessons From The Great Recession
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Great Recession, the global financial and economic crisis that erupted in 2007, has revealed a number of weaknesses in the EU framework for fiscal surveillance and fiscal policy coordination...
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Quickest Path Queries on Transportation Network
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the problem of finding a quickest path between two points in the Euclidean plane in the presence of a transportation network. A transportation network consists of a planar...
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Some Instant- and Practical-Time Related-Key Attacks on KTANTAN32/48/64
March 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The hardware-attractive block cipher family KTANTAN was studied by Bogdanov and Rechberger who identified flaws in the key schedule and gave a match-in-the-middle attack. The authors revisit their...
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Towards A Transaction Cost Analysis Of The Hub Firm
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
New Institutional Economics explain the firm as a hierarchical form of coordination that internalizes market exchanges. But important industries are today often dominated by highly disintegrated...
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Integrated And Flexible Project Supply Chains And Networks - Developing A Research Platform
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
To an increasing degree industries are organising their activities in projects which requires flexible solutions to manage operations, supply and distribution, as well as activities related to...
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Are Small Business Owners More Successful In Avoiding Taxes: Evidence From Sweden
April 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It is commonly argues that high tax rates motivates individuals to start a business as it is easier to avoid and evade taxes if self-employed compared to employed. If this is the case the authors...
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Ownership Patterns, Market Discipline, And Banks' Risk Taking Incentives Under Deposit Insurance
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper studies the effect of two governance factors, ownership structure and creditor discipline, on banks' risk-taking incentives in the presence of deposit insurance and related bank safety...
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Exchange Rate Regime Shifts And Price Patterns
July 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Considering the importance of producer prices in international competition, their role is underplayed by policy makers and researchers. The authors analyze producer prices in the transition from...
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On the Design and Control of Wireless Networked Embedded Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless networked embedded systems are becoming increasingly important in a wide area of technical fields. In this paper, the authors present recent results on the design of these systems and...
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Monetary Policy, Asset Price Inflation And Consumer Price Inflation
March 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
The overall price level contains prices of everything purchased or purchasable (Fischer, 1911). The consumer price index only covers a small subset of all prices in the economy and since these...
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Global Innovation Networks: What Are They And Where Can We Find Them? (Conceptual And Empirical Issues)
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The rapid move of China and India from low-cost producers to innovators has triggered an increasing interest in the globalization of innovation activities and more specifically, on the surge of...
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Upscaling Emerging Niche Technologies In Sustainable Energy: An International Comparison Of Policy Approaches
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
To speed up the transformation to low-carbon energy systems, transition policy approaches highlight the importance of purposive experimentation with sustainable niche technologies. An important...
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The Swedish National Innovation System And Its Relevance For The Emergence Of Global Innovation Networks
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Sweden is considered to be one of the most advanced countries in terms of innovation worldwide. Sweden always ranks high in all international reports on Science and Technology indicators such as...
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Technological Waves And Economic Growth - Sweden In An International Perspective 1850-2005
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a model of long waves and an empirical analysis of Swedish growth since 1850. The model emphasises the creation of new complementarities around macro innovations. The growth...
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Globalisation Of Knowledge Production And Regional Innovation Policy: Supporting Specialized Hubs In The Bangalore Software Industry
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper is concerned with the changing role of regional innovation systems and regional policies in supporting the transition of indigenous firms in developing countries from competing on low...
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Concluding Chapter: Globalisation And Innovation Policy
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The concluding chapter of the "Small Country Innovation Systems" book develops a comparative analysis that deals with only a very few of the many issues addressed empirically by the ten country...
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Two Sides Of The Same Coin- Local And Global Knowledge Flows In Medicon Valley
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
When conceptualizing modern biotechnology, Brink et al. (2004) suggest that a distinction should be made between 'Core' biotechnology and associated sectors like pharmaceuticals, medical...
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The Challenges Of Globalisation: Strategic Choices For Innovation Policy
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The vast literature of systems of innovation is rich in theoretical and empirical studies about the complexity and institutionally-embedded processes of interaction and learning. So far, however,...
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The Swedish Paradox Arises In Fast-Growing Sectors
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The aim of this paper is to examine whether the previously observed gap between growth of R&D and economic performance, known as the 'Swedish paradox', is a general phenomenon across all sectors...
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Clusters In Time And Space: Understanding The Growth And Transformation Of Life Science In Scania
December 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper deals with the growth and development of the Scanian life science cluster by revisiting a previous empirical study in the light of new theoretical findings. It is argued that the...
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Global-Local Linkages, Spillovers And Cultural Clusters: Theoretical And Empirical Insights From An Exploratory Study Of Toronto's Film Cluster
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper illustrates the importance of global-local linkages in cultural cluster-studies by discussing the impact of Hollywood's runway productions on the indigenous film cluster in Toronto,...
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Globalisation Of Knowledge Production And Regional Innovation Policy: Supporting Specialized Hubs In Developing Countries
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper sheds light on the role of the regional innovation system facilitating the transition from competing on low cost activities/services towards competing in innovation, using Bangalore...
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The Growth Effects Of Institutional Instability
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change,...
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A Matter Of Time: Revisiting Growth Convergence In Developing Countries
June 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a new methodology for testing inter-regional growth convergence in developing countries. Labor surplus economies are typically characterized by large inter-regional short-term...
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Growth Forecasts, Belief Manipulation And Capital Markets
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze how a benevolent government agency would optimally release information about the growth rate of the stochastic dividend process of the financial market. They investigate the...
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Good For Living? On The Relation Between Globalization And Life Expectancy
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the relation between three dimensions of globalization (economic, social and political) and life expectancy using a panel of 92 countries over the period 1970-2005. Using...
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Do Economic Liberalization And Globalization Increase Income Inequality?
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using the newly developed KOF-index of globalization, as well as the economic freedom index from the Fraser institute, the authors examine if globalization and economic liberalizations are linked...
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Freight Transportation Activity, Business Cycles And Trend Growth
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies empirical linkages between cycles and trends in freight transportation activity and real economic activity in Sweden. The authors find that cycles in freight transportation are...
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Different Competences, Different Modes In The Globalization Of Innovation? A Comparative Study Of The Pune And Beijing Regions
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since the seminal work of Archibugi and Michie (1995) on the globalization of innovation, several authors have tried to understand the complex relationship between innovation and...
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Regional Innovation Systems And The Global Location Of Innovation Activities: Lessons From China
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The global location of R&D centres by MNCs is a rather new phenomenon; especially when it comes to establishing R&D centres in developing countries. The existing and rather limited literature on...
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The Effects Of Institutional Change On Innovation And Productivity Growth In The Swedish Pharmaceutical Industry
December 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The relation between innovative output from the R&D process and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry has been investigated. The focus has been on the 1960s when...
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R&D And Financial Systems: The Determinants Of R&D Expenditures In The Swedish Pharmaceutical Industry
December 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected...
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Structured Microfinance In China
October 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors discuss the potential for commercial microfinance in China. Particular emphasis is put on securitization of microloans and on structured microfinance in a China context....
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International Remittances - A Proposal How To Test Hypotheses About Determinants Of Remittances With Macroeconomic Time Series
January 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors study the determinants of remittances to developing countries at different time horizons. Remittances to developing countries nowadays exceed official development assistance and...
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Mutual Information of IID Complex Gaussian Signals on Block Rayleigh-Faded Channels
January 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors present a method to compute, quickly and efficiently, the mutual information achieved by an IID (Independent Identically Distributed) complex Gaussian input on a block Rayleigh-faded...
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In-Situ Vehicular Antenna Integration and Design Aspects for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
January 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless V2V communication systems are currently being researched regarding their potential to reduce traffic congestion and traffic accident rates. An even higher priority of investigating the...
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Financial Constraints And Structural Characteristics Of Small And Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs): The Case Of Tanzania
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main focus of this paper is to explore the nature and the characteristics of SMEs together with the financial constraints facing the SMEs. Basically the research focuses Tanzania as the main...
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Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
January 19, 2011, 12:00am PST
In cellular and wireless local area networks, wireless communication only occurs on the last link between a base station and the wireless end system. In multi-hop wireless networks there are one...
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In-Situ Vehicular Antenna Integration and Design Aspects for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
January 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless V2V communication systems are currently being researched regarding their potential to reduce traffic congestion and traffic accident rates. An even higher priority of investigating the...
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Mutual Information of IID Complex Gaussian Signals on Block Rayleigh-Faded Channels
January 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors present a method to compute, quickly and efficiently, the mutual information achieved by an IID (Independent Identically Distributed) complex Gaussian input on a block Rayleigh-faded...
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Leveraging Network and Traffic Measurements for Content Distribution and Interpersonal Communication Services With Sufficient Quality
April 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors discuss research problems for enabling content distribution and supporting real-time interpersonal communication services (e.g., voice and video) over best effort...
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Networks on Chips for High-End Consumer-Electronics TV System Architectures
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Consumer electronics products, such as high-end (digital) TVs, contain complex systems on chip (SOC) that offer high computational performance at low cost. Traditionally, these SOCs are...
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Evaluation of the Telia Scattered Field Measurement Method for Estimation of In-Network Performance of Mobile Terminal Antennas
July 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present and evaluate a method for estimation of in-network performance of mobile terminal antennas developed by the Swedish telecom operator Telia. The Telia Scattered...
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A Generic Hardware Mac for Wireless Personal Area Network Platforms
June 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a generic hardware-MAC for systems designed based on high rate (IEEE 802.15.3) and low rate (IEEE 802.15.4) Wireless Personal Area Networks. Functionality that is better run in...
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Time-Stamping Accuracy in Virtualized Environments
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
The swift acceptance and the widespread use of virtual environments has substantially increased the stress on networks as each of the operating systems running in parallel sends out packets over...
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Exploring Wireless Mesh Networks for Collaborative Augmented Reality Environments
June 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Augmented Reality (AR) has emerged as a technology able to greatly support the interaction between people and digital information by merging virtual objects with the real environment. So far,...
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MIMO Performance of Diversity-Rich Compact Six-Port Dielectric Resonator Antenna Arrays in Measured Indoor Environments at 2.65 GHz
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
MIMO systems can achieve linear capacity gain proportional to the number of antennas. However, the compactness of terminal devices limits the number of spatial degrees of freedom in such systems,...
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Analytical Dual-Link MIMO Channel Model Using Correlated Correlation Matrices
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Analytical Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) models are often attractive due to their low complexity when analyzing possibilities and limitations in the system. In this paper, the authors...
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Handover Between GSM (2G), UMTS (3G) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Investigation of HandOvers (HO) between different radio access technologies opens up a wide range of optimization possibilities in terms of utilization of network resources and better coverage...
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WSN in Present
May 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the recent past, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have developed very fast and have been applied in a wide variety fields. As a consequence, lots of researches have been done concerning...
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IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks
May 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Nowdays, WLAN technology covers a wide variety of devices and applications used by many users around the globe. The most common standard in WLANs is the well known IEEE 802.11 which comprises a...
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On the Performance of Iterative Receivers for Interfering MIMO-OFDM Systems in Measured Channels
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the gains harvested through base station cooperation in the up-link for a Multi-User (MU) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing...
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EXIT Chart Evaluation of a Receiver Structure for Multi-User Multi-Antenna OFDM Systems
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors evaluate, by means of EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts, an iterative receiver that has emerged as a promising candidate for non-coherent multi-user...
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Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs)
July 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) have achieved a big importance in fields of wireless communication. This kind of wireless communication is made by sending packets from one to another node and...
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Band Spectrum Regressions Using Wavelet Analysis
June 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In economics it is common to distinguish between different time horizons (i.e. short run, medium run, and long run). Engle (1974) proposed combining the discrete Fourier transform with a band...
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On The Cost-Vs-Quality Tradeoff In Make-Or-Buy Decisions
March 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple two-task principal-agent model. There is a cost-saving/quality tradeoff in effort provision. The principal faces a dichotomous choice between weak...
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To Segment Or Not To Segment Markets? A Note On The Profitability Of Market Segmentation For An International Oligopoly
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent research on endogenous market segmentation finds that a monopoly's expected profit under perfectly segmented markets increases (relative to its profits under perfectly integrated markets)...
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Executive Compensation Based On Asset Values
August 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes how credit default swaps could be employed to create performance based executive compensation portfolios that reflect the value of a firm's debt as well as equity; i.e. the...
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Can Targeted Food Taxes And Subsidies Improve The Diet? Distributional Effects Among Income Groups
September 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes distributional effects of revenue-neutral tax reforms aimed at improving dietary quality and encouraging healthier grain consumption. Using data on household grain purchases,...
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Government Effectiveness And Regional Variation In Informal Employment Forthcoming
June 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the role of government effectiveness in the determination of informal employment. A theoretical model is developed, in which local governance and worker skill level are assumed...
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Double-Blind In Light Of Internet - Note On Review Processes
April 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the credibility of author anonymity provided by double-blind review processes. It is argued that authors have strong incentives to disseminate information about their papers...
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Dynamics In Systematic Liquidity
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach to systematic liquidity measurement by introducing moving and expanding estimation windows. They evaluate these methods along...
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Make-Or-Buy Decisions And The Manipulability Of Performance Measures
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The make-or-buy decision is analyzed in a simple framework combining contractual incompleteness with the existence of imperfect but contractible performance measures. Contractual incompleteness...
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Endogenous Social Norms - Implications For Optimal Welfare State Programs
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the implications of an endogenous social work norm for the optimal welfare state program. Assuming that individual productivity is observable, the analysis finds that...
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A Flexible Hazard Rate Model For Grouped Duration Data
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a discrete-time hazard regression approach based on the interrelation between hazard rate models and excess over threshold models, which are frequently encountered in extreme...
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Institutions, Taxation, And Market Relationships In Ancient Athens
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Rural Non-Agricultural Employment (RNAE) is being increasingly emphasized as a potential pathway out of rural poverty for people who are unable to secure their income in agriculture. Although...
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Debt Relief, Investment And Growth Forthcoming
August 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The donor community provided around $400 billion in debt relief to developing countries between 1989 and 2004. This paper empirically assesses the impact of debt relief on growth and investment by...
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Causes Of Structural Unemployment In Finland And Sweden 1990-2004
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors describe the size and timing for comprehensive as well as decomposed measures of unemployment in Finland and Sweden between 1990 and 2004. They then test for and confirm a change in...
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Why Is Chinese Regional Output Diverging?
December 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In a recent paper Pedroni and Yao (2006) present strong evidence suggesting that Chinese regional output is diverging, a result that strongly contradicts the goal of China's government of a...
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Risk Exchange As A Market Or Production Game
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Risk exchange is considered here as a cooperative game with transferable utility. The set-up fits markets for insurance, securities and contingent endowments. When convoluted payoff is concave at...
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Trilateral Trade And Asset Allocation - Extending The Grossman-Hart-Moore Model
December 20, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper extends the Grossman-Hart-Moore model to suite a specific trilateral trade transaction. In this transaction a downstream producer produces the final good using inputs from two different...
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Testing Stationarity In Small And Medium-Sized Samples When Disturbances Are Serially Correlated Forthcoming
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors study the size distortions of the KPSS test for stationarity when serial correlation is present and samples are small and medium-sized. It is argued that two distinct...
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Risk Contagion Among International Stock Markets
April 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a model of stochastic volatility with jump to analyze the risk spillover from the US market and the regional (European) market to the European equity markets. The key advantage...
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Divergence Of Bank Risk Indicators And The Conditions For Market Discipline In Banking
November 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
Using market forces as a disciplinary device of banks' risk taking is high on the agenda for regulators, as manifested, e.g., by the inclusion of a pillar for 'Market discipline' in the Basle II...
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Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
January 19, 2011, 12:00am PST
In cellular and wireless local area networks, wireless communication only occurs on the last link between a base station and the wireless end system. In multi-hop wireless networks there are one...
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Financial Constraints And Structural Characteristics Of Small And Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs): The Case Of Tanzania
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main focus of this paper is to explore the nature and the characteristics of SMEs together with the financial constraints facing the SMEs. Basically the research focuses Tanzania as the main...
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International Remittances - A Proposal How To Test Hypotheses About Determinants Of Remittances With Macroeconomic Time Series
January 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors study the determinants of remittances to developing countries at different time horizons. Remittances to developing countries nowadays exceed official development assistance and...
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Structured Microfinance In China
October 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors discuss the potential for commercial microfinance in China. Particular emphasis is put on securitization of microloans and on structured microfinance in a China context....
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