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An EDF Scheduling Class for the Linux Kernel
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Linux kernel is mainly used is general-purpose operating system, i.e., in server and/or desktop environments. During the last years, however, academic institutions and companies showed an...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Financial And Economic Determinants Of Firm Default
October 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relevance of financial and economic variables as determinants of firm defaults. This analysis is not limited to publicly traded companies but extends to a large sample...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Product Innovation And Growth: The Case Of Integrated Circuits
February 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Puzzling evidence stemming from the applied research on growth and innovation is that successful innovations do not appear to have a significant effect on sales growth rates, at odds with the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Innovation, Technical Change And Patents In The Development Process: A Long Term View
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The key feature of the historical process of economic development is the "Great transformation" (Polanyi, 1944) whereby the traditional organization of economic activities gives way to the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
An Emerging Paradigm Or Just Another Trajectory? Understanding The Nature Of Technological Changes Using Engineering Heuristics In The Telecommunications Switching Industry
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper on technological changes distinguishes between paradigmatic changes and changes in trajectories. Recently several scholars have performed empirical studies on the way technological...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Modeling Routines And Organizational Learning. A Discussion Of The State-of-the-art
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at building formal models of organizations as information-processing and problem-solving entities. The authors distinguish between...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Spatial Differentiation In Industrial Dynamics. A Core-periphery Analysis Based On The Pavitt-miozzo-soete Taxonomy
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors compare the industrial dynamics in the core, semi-periphery and periphery in The Netherlands in terms of firm entry-exit, size, growth and sectoral location patterns. The contribution...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Framing The Empirical Findings On Firm Growth
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a general framework to account for the divergent results in the empirical literature on the relation between firm sizes and growth rates, and on many results on growth...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Self-selection Along Different Export And Import Markets
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
How are firms' performances influenced by the specific characteristics of markets where exports are directed and imports originate from? Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, this...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform ?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses persistence in growth rates of the entire population of Dutch manufacturing firms. Previous literature on firm growth rates shows that extreme growth events are likely to be...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Markets Fo Heterogeneous Products: A Boundedly Rational Consumer Model
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper is based on the acknowledgement that properties of markets stemming from features of demand are too frequently overlooked in the economic literature, and a re-balancing is necessary to...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
How Do Organizational Capabilities Shape Industry Dynamics ?
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to reconcile the logic behind stochastic models of firm growth and the notion of organizational capabilities as drivers of economic performance. In the proposed behavioral model of...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Technical Change And Industrial Dynamics As Evolutionary Processes
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A wide ensemble of scholars, both in economics and several other disciplines, have been studying technological advance, viewed as an evolutionary process. This perspective on technological change...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Appropriability, Patents, And Rates Of Innovation In Complex Products Industries
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The economic theory of intellectual property rights is based on a rather narrow view of both competition and technological knowledge. The authors suggest some ways of enriching this framework with...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Spatial Localization In Manufacturing: A Cross-country Analysis
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper employs a homogenous firm's database to investigate industry localization in European countries. More specifically, the authors compare, across industries and countries, the predictions...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Does Volatility Matter? Expectations Of Price Return And Variability In An Asset Pricing Experiment
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present results of an experiment on expectation formation in an asset market. Participants to the experiment must provide forecasts of the stock future return to computerized...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Firm Size, Managerial Practices And Innovativeness: Some Evidence From Finnish Manufacturing
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors use a survey data on 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically explore whether and which organizational factors explain why certain firms...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
An Evolutionary Model Of Firms Location With Technological Externalities
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an economic geography model where both a negative pecuniary and a positive technological externality are present, the authors introduce an explicit dynamics of firms' locational choice and they...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
The Impact Of M&A On Technology Sourcing Strategies
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper investigates the effects of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) on corporate Research and Development (R&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Optimal Bandwidth Selection For Conditional Efficiency Measures: A Data-driven Approach
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In productivity analysis an important issue is to detect how external (environmen-tal) factors, exogenous to the production process and not under the control of the producer, might influence the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Growth Processes Of Italian Manufacturing Firms
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a multidimensional empirical analysis of firm growth. Exploiting census data on Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997, the authors estimate a reduced-form VAR to analyze the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
The Distribution Of Consumption-expenditure Budget Shares. Evidence From Italian Households
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the statistical properties of Household consumption-expenditure Budget Shares Distributions (HBSDs) - defined as the share of household total expenditure spent for purchasing a...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Technical Change And Economic Growth: Some Lessons From Secular Patterns And Some Conjectures On The Current Impact Of ICT Technology
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the link between patterns of technological change and economic development taking an evolutionary perspective. The authors argue that the modes and timing of such coupled...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Inventors And The Geographical Breadth Of Knowledge Spillovers
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the geographical breadth of knowledge spillovers. Previous research suggests that knowledge spillovers benefit from geographical proximity in technologically active and rich...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
A Review Of Nonfundamentalness And Identification In Structural VAR Models
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors review, under a historical perspective, the development of the problem of non-fundamentalness of Moving Average (MA) representations of economic models, starting from the work by...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Assessing The Impact Of Credit Ratings And Economic Performance On Firm Default
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors try to increase the scope of analysis extending the investigation to other possible determinants of default. In particular, they rely on credit ratings to summarize...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
The Patterns Of Output Growth Of Firms And Countries: New Evidence On Scale Invariances And Scale Specificities
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at the macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at the micro level, the size...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Boom And Bust Behavior: On The Persistence Of Strategic Decision Biases And Their Collective Outcome
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Boom and bust or overshoot and collapse dynamics are common among firms in a large range of different industries. Durable consumer electronics (e.g. televisions, VCR's, calculators, etc.),...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Is Bigger Always Better ? The Effect Of Size On Defaults
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Analyzing a large sample of Italian firms the authors find that the probability of default increases with size. This contrasts with the common observation, based on measures of exit from business...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
On The Relationship Between Firms' Size And Growth Rate
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the seminal work of Pareto, many empirical analyses suggested that the distribution of firms size is characterized by an asymptotic power like behavior. At the same time, several...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
On The Latin American Growth Paradox: A Hindsight Into The Golden Age
November 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
In 1950, Latin American countries' capabilities were promising, and the subcontinent was thought to have a big potential for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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White Papers
Innovation And Firm Growth In High-Tech Sectors: A Quantile Regression Approach
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Whitepapers
Experimenting Hierarchical PCE Architecture in a Distributed Multi-Platform Control Plane Testbed
October 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Path Computation Element (PCE) architecture is widely recognized to enable Traffic Engineering (TE) solutions even in network scenarios where available resources information exchange is...
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A Service-Oriented Architecture for QoS Configuration and Management of Wireless Sensor Networks
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software infrastructures for networked enterprises may need data coming from low-level pervasive devices, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, the complex management of such tiny...
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BACCARAT: A Dynamic Real-Time Bandwidth Allocation Policy for IEEE 802.15.4
October 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recently, researchers and engineers began considering the use of WSN in time-sensitive applications. For effective real-time communications, it is important to solve the problem of contention to...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Whitepapers
Experimenting Hierarchical PCE Architecture in a Distributed Multi-Platform Control Plane Testbed
October 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Path Computation Element (PCE) architecture is widely recognized to enable Traffic Engineering (TE) solutions even in network scenarios where available resources information exchange is...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
BACCARAT: A Dynamic Real-Time Bandwidth Allocation Policy for IEEE 802.15.4
October 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recently, researchers and engineers began considering the use of WSN in time-sensitive applications. For effective real-time communications, it is important to solve the problem of contention to...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
A Service-Oriented Architecture for QoS Configuration and Management of Wireless Sensor Networks
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software infrastructures for networked enterprises may need data coming from low-level pervasive devices, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, the complex management of such tiny...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Innovation And Firm Growth In High-Tech Sectors: A Quantile Regression Approach
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only modest growth and may grow for a number of reasons that may or may not...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
On The Latin American Growth Paradox: A Hindsight Into The Golden Age
November 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
In 1950, Latin American countries' capabilities were promising, and the subcontinent was thought to have a big potential for convergence. In order to understand why this prediction was not...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
On The Relationship Between Firms' Size And Growth Rate
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Since the seminal work of Pareto, many empirical analyses suggested that the distribution of firms size is characterized by an asymptotic power like behavior. At the same time, several...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Is Bigger Always Better ? The Effect Of Size On Defaults
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Analyzing a large sample of Italian firms the authors find that the probability of default increases with size. This contrasts with the common observation, based on measures of exit from business...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Boom And Bust Behavior: On The Persistence Of Strategic Decision Biases And Their Collective Outcome
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Boom and bust or overshoot and collapse dynamics are common among firms in a large range of different industries. Durable consumer electronics (e.g. televisions, VCR's, calculators, etc.),...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
The Patterns Of Output Growth Of Firms And Countries: New Evidence On Scale Invariances And Scale Specificities
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at the macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at the micro level, the size...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Assessing The Impact Of Credit Ratings And Economic Performance On Firm Default
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors try to increase the scope of analysis extending the investigation to other possible determinants of default. In particular, they rely on credit ratings to summarize...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
A Review Of Nonfundamentalness And Identification In Structural VAR Models
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors review, under a historical perspective, the development of the problem of non-fundamentalness of Moving Average (MA) representations of economic models, starting from the work by...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Inventors And The Geographical Breadth Of Knowledge Spillovers
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the geographical breadth of knowledge spillovers. Previous research suggests that knowledge spillovers benefit from geographical proximity in technologically active and rich...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Technical Change And Economic Growth: Some Lessons From Secular Patterns And Some Conjectures On The Current Impact Of ICT Technology
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the link between patterns of technological change and economic development taking an evolutionary perspective. The authors argue that the modes and timing of such coupled...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
The Distribution Of Consumption-expenditure Budget Shares. Evidence From Italian Households
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the statistical properties of Household consumption-expenditure Budget Shares Distributions (HBSDs) - defined as the share of household total expenditure spent for purchasing a...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Growth Processes Of Italian Manufacturing Firms
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a multidimensional empirical analysis of firm growth. Exploiting census data on Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997, the authors estimate a reduced-form VAR to analyze the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Optimal Bandwidth Selection For Conditional Efficiency Measures: A Data-driven Approach
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In productivity analysis an important issue is to detect how external (environmen-tal) factors, exogenous to the production process and not under the control of the producer, might influence the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
The Impact Of M&A On Technology Sourcing Strategies
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper investigates the effects of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) on corporate Research and Development (R&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
An Evolutionary Model Of Firms Location With Technological Externalities
July 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an economic geography model where both a negative pecuniary and a positive technological externality are present, the authors introduce an explicit dynamics of firms' locational choice and they...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Firm Size, Managerial Practices And Innovativeness: Some Evidence From Finnish Manufacturing
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors use a survey data on 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically explore whether and which organizational factors explain why certain firms...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Does Volatility Matter? Expectations Of Price Return And Variability In An Asset Pricing Experiment
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present results of an experiment on expectation formation in an asset market. Participants to the experiment must provide forecasts of the stock future return to computerized...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Spatial Localization In Manufacturing: A Cross-country Analysis
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper employs a homogenous firm's database to investigate industry localization in European countries. More specifically, the authors compare, across industries and countries, the predictions...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Appropriability, Patents, And Rates Of Innovation In Complex Products Industries
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The economic theory of intellectual property rights is based on a rather narrow view of both competition and technological knowledge. The authors suggest some ways of enriching this framework with...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Technical Change And Industrial Dynamics As Evolutionary Processes
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A wide ensemble of scholars, both in economics and several other disciplines, have been studying technological advance, viewed as an evolutionary process. This perspective on technological change...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
How Do Organizational Capabilities Shape Industry Dynamics ?
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to reconcile the logic behind stochastic models of firm growth and the notion of organizational capabilities as drivers of economic performance. In the proposed behavioral model of...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Markets Fo Heterogeneous Products: A Boundedly Rational Consumer Model
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper is based on the acknowledgement that properties of markets stemming from features of demand are too frequently overlooked in the economic literature, and a re-balancing is necessary to...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform ?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses persistence in growth rates of the entire population of Dutch manufacturing firms. Previous literature on firm growth rates shows that extreme growth events are likely to be...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Self-selection Along Different Export And Import Markets
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
How are firms' performances influenced by the specific characteristics of markets where exports are directed and imports originate from? Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, this...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Framing The Empirical Findings On Firm Growth
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a general framework to account for the divergent results in the empirical literature on the relation between firm sizes and growth rates, and on many results on growth...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Spatial Differentiation In Industrial Dynamics. A Core-periphery Analysis Based On The Pavitt-miozzo-soete Taxonomy
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors compare the industrial dynamics in the core, semi-periphery and periphery in The Netherlands in terms of firm entry-exit, size, growth and sectoral location patterns. The contribution...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Modeling Routines And Organizational Learning. A Discussion Of The State-of-the-art
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at building formal models of organizations as information-processing and problem-solving entities. The authors distinguish between...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
An Emerging Paradigm Or Just Another Trajectory? Understanding The Nature Of Technological Changes Using Engineering Heuristics In The Telecommunications Switching Industry
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper on technological changes distinguishes between paradigmatic changes and changes in trajectories. Recently several scholars have performed empirical studies on the way technological...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Innovation, Technical Change And Patents In The Development Process: A Long Term View
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The key feature of the historical process of economic development is the "Great transformation" (Polanyi, 1944) whereby the traditional organization of economic activities gives way to the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Product Innovation And Growth: The Case Of Integrated Circuits
February 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Puzzling evidence stemming from the applied research on growth and innovation is that successful innovations do not appear to have a significant effect on sales growth rates, at odds with the...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
Financial And Economic Determinants Of Firm Default
October 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relevance of financial and economic variables as determinants of firm defaults. This analysis is not limited to publicly traded companies but extends to a large sample...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
-
White Papers
An EDF Scheduling Class for the Linux Kernel
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Linux kernel is mainly used is general-purpose operating system, i.e., in server and/or desktop environments. During the last years, however, academic institutions and companies showed an...
Provided by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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