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Compressive Sensing Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communication Through the Atmosphere
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a novel application of Compressive Sensing (CS) to provide spatial diversity for free-space optical communication links. A CS receiver estimates the focal-plane signal...
Provided by McMaster University
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A Note On Income Distribution And Growth
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many analysts expect the aging population to lead to a reduction in the growth of living standards. Income inequality - a problem that has been accentuated by the payroll tax hikes that were...
Provided by McMaster University
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Population Aging, Older Workers, And Canada~s Labour Force
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Expert Panel on Older Workers made recommendations designed to increase the labour force participation of older workers. The authors explore the implications that higher rates of older-worker...
Provided by McMaster University
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Patterns Of Retirement As Reflected In Income Tax Records For Older Workers
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement requires a definition of substantial and sufficient observations of the same...
Provided by McMaster University
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The Effect Of Match Quality And Specific Experience On Career Decisions And Wage Growth
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79....
Provided by McMaster University
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A Bargaining Model Of Tax Competition
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a model in which competing government's offer financial incentives to induce individual firms to locate within their jurisdictions. Equilibrium is described under three...
Provided by McMaster University
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Equalization Payments In A Bargaining Model Of Tax Competition
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
A model in which a high-productivity region and a low-productivity region bargain with each firm in a group of mobile firms is constructed. It differs from the Han and Leach [7] model in that the...
Provided by McMaster University
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Organizational Capital And The International Co-Movement Of Investment
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A productivity shock leads to a large international transfer of capital and negative co-movement of investment in the typical two-country real business cycle model. Most recent models that attempt...
Provided by McMaster University
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An Evaluation Of The Working Income Tax Benefit
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The federal government has implemented an earned income tax credit - what it has called the Working Income Tax Benefit - in the 2007 Budget. Edmund Phelps has argued that the earned income tax...
Provided by McMaster University
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White Papers
New Evidence On Taxes And Portfolio Choice
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Identifying the effect of differential taxation on portfolio allocation requires exogenous variation in marginal tax rates. Marginal tax rates vary with income, but income surely affects portfolio...
Provided by McMaster University
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The Capacity Region of a Product of Two Unmatched Gaussian Broadcast Channels With Three Particular Messages and a Common Message
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a Gaussian broadcast channel with two unmatched degraded components, three particular messages, and a common message that is intended for all three receivers. It is shown that...
Provided by McMaster University
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Specification of Agent Explicit Knowledge in Cryptographic Protocols
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cryptographic protocols are widely used in various applications to provide secure communications. They are usually represented as communicating agents that send and receive messages. These agents...
Provided by McMaster University
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Utility Indifference Pricing: A Time Consistent Approach
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the optimal portfolio selection problem in a dynamic multi-period stochastic framework with regime switching. The risk preferences are of exponential (CARA) type with an...
Provided by McMaster University
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Statistical Inference For Time-changed Brownian Motion Credit Risk Models
February 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider structural credit modeling in the important special case where the log-leverage ratio of the firm is a Time-Changed Brownian Motion (TCBM) with the time-change taken to be an...
Provided by McMaster University
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From Growth To Cycles Through Beliefs
June 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The author presents a theoretical model where the economy endogenously adopts the technological ideas of a slowly evolving technological frontier, and show that the presence of a "Technological...
Provided by McMaster University
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Formation Of Heterogeneous Skills And Wage Growth
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the labor market over the careers of men. The objective task complexity measurement from the...
Provided by McMaster University
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Information Rates of Solar Blind Non-Line-of-Sight Ultra-Violet Channels With Binary-Input
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
There is recent interest to establish Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) links in the solar-blind UltraViolet (UV) region for outdoor optical wireless communications. A new channel model is proposed based...
Provided by McMaster University
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Diversity Gain for Near-Field MISO Atmospheric Optical Communications
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the performance of a Multiple-Input/Single-Output (MISO) Free-Space Optical (FSO) systems is studied through an analytical approach which more accurately models the atmospheric...
Provided by McMaster University
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Opportunistic Scheduling in a Bidirectional Communication Link With Relaying
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study transmission scheduling in a bidirectional communication link, where two end nodes are communicating with each other through a relay node. Each of the two end...
Provided by McMaster University
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Secondary User VoIP Capacity in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks With Friendly Scheduling
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In conventional cognitive radio networks it is usually assumed that the primary network remains unchanged. The onus is then placed on the secondary network users to make the best use of any...
Provided by McMaster University
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Achieving Minimum-Routing-Cost Maximum-Flows in Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A multi-commodity Minimum-Cost Maximum-Flow algorithm for routing multiple unicast traffic flows in infrastructure wireless mesh networks, represented as commodities to be routed in an undirected...
Provided by McMaster University
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Program Families in Scientific Computing
October 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper motivates how the quality of scientific computing applications can be improved by developing them as a program family. In particular, arguments are presented that a program family...
Provided by McMaster University
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Full Diversity Blind Signal Designs for Unique Identification of Frequency Selective Channels
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors develop two kinds of novel closed-form decompositions on Phase Shift Keying (PSK) constellations by exploiting linear congruence equation theory: the one for factorizing...
Provided by McMaster University
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Whitepapers
Achieving Minimum-Routing-Cost Maximum-Flows in Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A multi-commodity Minimum-Cost Maximum-Flow algorithm for routing multiple unicast traffic flows in infrastructure wireless mesh networks, represented as commodities to be routed in an undirected...
Provided by McMaster University
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Whitepapers
Secondary User VoIP Capacity in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks With Friendly Scheduling
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In conventional cognitive radio networks it is usually assumed that the primary network remains unchanged. The onus is then placed on the secondary network users to make the best use of any...
Provided by McMaster University
-
Whitepapers
Opportunistic Scheduling in a Bidirectional Communication Link With Relaying
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study transmission scheduling in a bidirectional communication link, where two end nodes are communicating with each other through a relay node. Each of the two end...
Provided by McMaster University
-
Whitepapers
Diversity Gain for Near-Field MISO Atmospheric Optical Communications
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the performance of a Multiple-Input/Single-Output (MISO) Free-Space Optical (FSO) systems is studied through an analytical approach which more accurately models the atmospheric...
Provided by McMaster University
-
Whitepapers
Information Rates of Solar Blind Non-Line-of-Sight Ultra-Violet Channels With Binary-Input
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
There is recent interest to establish Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) links in the solar-blind UltraViolet (UV) region for outdoor optical wireless communications. A new channel model is proposed based...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Full Diversity Blind Signal Designs for Unique Identification of Frequency Selective Channels
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors develop two kinds of novel closed-form decompositions on Phase Shift Keying (PSK) constellations by exploiting linear congruence equation theory: the one for factorizing...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Program Families in Scientific Computing
October 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper motivates how the quality of scientific computing applications can be improved by developing them as a program family. In particular, arguments are presented that a program family...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Formation Of Heterogeneous Skills And Wage Growth
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the labor market over the careers of men. The objective task complexity measurement from the...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
From Growth To Cycles Through Beliefs
June 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The author presents a theoretical model where the economy endogenously adopts the technological ideas of a slowly evolving technological frontier, and show that the presence of a "Technological...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Statistical Inference For Time-changed Brownian Motion Credit Risk Models
February 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider structural credit modeling in the important special case where the log-leverage ratio of the firm is a Time-Changed Brownian Motion (TCBM) with the time-change taken to be an...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Utility Indifference Pricing: A Time Consistent Approach
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the optimal portfolio selection problem in a dynamic multi-period stochastic framework with regime switching. The risk preferences are of exponential (CARA) type with an...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Specification of Agent Explicit Knowledge in Cryptographic Protocols
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cryptographic protocols are widely used in various applications to provide secure communications. They are usually represented as communicating agents that send and receive messages. These agents...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
The Capacity Region of a Product of Two Unmatched Gaussian Broadcast Channels With Three Particular Messages and a Common Message
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a Gaussian broadcast channel with two unmatched degraded components, three particular messages, and a common message that is intended for all three receivers. It is shown that...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
New Evidence On Taxes And Portfolio Choice
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Identifying the effect of differential taxation on portfolio allocation requires exogenous variation in marginal tax rates. Marginal tax rates vary with income, but income surely affects portfolio...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
An Evaluation Of The Working Income Tax Benefit
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The federal government has implemented an earned income tax credit - what it has called the Working Income Tax Benefit - in the 2007 Budget. Edmund Phelps has argued that the earned income tax...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Organizational Capital And The International Co-Movement Of Investment
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A productivity shock leads to a large international transfer of capital and negative co-movement of investment in the typical two-country real business cycle model. Most recent models that attempt...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Equalization Payments In A Bargaining Model Of Tax Competition
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
A model in which a high-productivity region and a low-productivity region bargain with each firm in a group of mobile firms is constructed. It differs from the Han and Leach [7] model in that the...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
A Bargaining Model Of Tax Competition
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a model in which competing government's offer financial incentives to induce individual firms to locate within their jurisdictions. Equilibrium is described under three...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
The Effect Of Match Quality And Specific Experience On Career Decisions And Wage Growth
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper constructs and estimates a career decision model where individuals search for both career matching and employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79....
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Patterns Of Retirement As Reflected In Income Tax Records For Older Workers
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement requires a definition of substantial and sufficient observations of the same...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Population Aging, Older Workers, And Canada~s Labour Force
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Expert Panel on Older Workers made recommendations designed to increase the labour force participation of older workers. The authors explore the implications that higher rates of older-worker...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
A Note On Income Distribution And Growth
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many analysts expect the aging population to lead to a reduction in the growth of living standards. Income inequality - a problem that has been accentuated by the payroll tax hikes that were...
Provided by McMaster University
-
White Papers
Compressive Sensing Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communication Through the Atmosphere
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a novel application of Compressive Sensing (CS) to provide spatial diversity for free-space optical communication links. A CS receiver estimates the focal-plane signal...
Provided by McMaster University
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