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Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Science Clouds project allows members of the scientific community to lease resources for short amounts of time, in a manner similar to Amazon's EC2 service : a client requests a resource lease...
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Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared
November 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Cloud Computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However, there are dozens of different definitions for Cloud Computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a Cloud is. On the...
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Comparison of the Wireless-Only and Landline Populations in a Small Pilot Immunization Study
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The size of the wireless-telephone-only population has increased in recent years, raising concerns about the accuracy of RDD-based telephone surveys. Previous research on the impact of...
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Discussion of a Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
President Roosevelt allegedly issued this quip after having engaged in a lengthy exchange with a visiting business delegation. While the story (true or not) may be apocryphal, it illuminates a...
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A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper evaluates the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on shareholders by studying the lobbying behavior of investors and corporate insiders in order to affect the final implemented rules...
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Regulation and Sarbanes-Oxley
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper will begin by summarizing the arguments for regulation that have been made in the literature. The paper will then consider whether these arguments apply to SOX. The author will suggest...
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Tipping The Balance: Indirect Network Effects And Market Concentration
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The article focuses on market values of high-tech products, market concentration and network effects on different IT products. The actual and expected software availability narrows down to a...
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The Dividend Puzzle: A New Generation Of Firms Replaces Dividends With Stock Repurchases
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
"Over the last 30 years, corporate payout policy - a firm's policy for paying dividends and making stock repurchases - has changed significantly as earnings have become more volatile. A new study...
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Finding The Right Spot: A Game Of Location Choice
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wal-Mart is the king of the retail discount industry, or at least that's what everyone says. Without access to detailed data, however, that claim may be hard to prove. New research looks into the...
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Dominant Use: How Customers Influence The Evolution Of New Products
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Paying attention to how customers use a new product can help companies become more successful in the marketplace. How customers use a technology generates important information about its...
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Managing Risk: Asset Allocation Within Pension Plans
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
How do firms decide whether to invest in riskier or safer assets? Recent research analyzes the conflicting incentives for managing cash flow risk in defined benefit pension plans. Corporate...
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Neighbor Networks: Understanding The Power Of Networks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A surprising finding on the value of colleague networks leads to an even more remarkable revelation of how networks truly work. Is it who you know rather than what you know that really matters?...
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Forums Vs. Fountains: Universities And The Evolution Of Knowledge Networks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Universities can help boost a mature industrial economy by reinvigorating the flow of new ideas in the community. But universities can approach this task in different ways, each leading to vastly...
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Consumers And Their Satellite Dishes: How Strong Is The Bond?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A new study shows that cable companies have a greater degree of market power than satellite companies. Home satellite systems provide the only alternative to local cable television companies for...
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The Pack Mentality: A Behavioral Finance View Of Stock Price Comovement
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
By looking carefully at data on individual stock prices, it is easy to find many examples of "Comovement"-groups of stocks whose prices tend to move together. For instance, prices of stocks in the...
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Building A High-Tech Neighborhood: What Does It Take To Create The Economic Environment For Entrepreneurship?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Policymakers around the world have sought to emulate the industrial conditions that gave rise to the Silicon Valley economic dynamo of the 1990s. Although theories about the factors that underlie...
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How Much are Nonexistent Earnings Worth?: Throwing Away Cash To Report False Earnings
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
How much will firms spend to perpetuate accounting fraud? New research indicates that some firms are willing to burn through their cash to inflate their financial statements. Today, accounting...
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Don't Blame The System: Why Capitalism Must Be Saved From The Capitalists
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Capitalism has always been seen as an instrument for the rich to get richer. A new book turns this view upside down: Capitalism is instead a system that fundamentally benefits everyone, especially...
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The $4 Trillion Question: How To Judge Mutual Fund Managers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New research suggests that mutual fund managers are best evaluated by looking at the company they keep. Suppose an individual chooses a mutual fund manager with a stellar three-year history and...
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Banner Ads Click With Consumers: Online Advertising For Customer Retention
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Banner advertising helps companies retain customers by bringing them back to a company's Web site faster and encouraging them to spend more. Total spending on Internet advertising now exceeds...
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Tainted Knowledge Vs. Tempting Knowledge: Rivalry, Self-Esteem, And Patterns Of Learning
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
People want to have positive views of themselves, and organize much of their lives around maintaining, enhancing, and protecting their self-esteem. By simply comparing oneself to more successful...
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The Wireless Revolution: Pioneering Uses Of Information Technology In Trucking
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless networking applications in trucking have yielded significant increases in productivity. The economic value of many applications of Information Technology (IT) rest on the same principles:...
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Beyond The Protestant Work Ethic: Religion And Economic Attitudes
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New research suggests a link between religion and attitudes that are conducive to economic growth. Economists, sociologists, and political scientists have long been interested in explaining the...
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The Business Of Managing Decisions: Understanding The Place Of Uncertainty
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
If introducing a new product line creates a small probability of losing a few million dollars and a large probability of earning many billions of dollars, it seems clear that the new product line...
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Not Beyond Repair: How Organizational Practices Can Compensate For Individual Shortcomings
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
More than 30 years of research in cognitive psychology has resulted in rather mixed reviews for human judgment and reasoning. Some researchers have marveled at what the human brain can accomplish....
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Which CEO Characteristics And Abilities Matter?
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and Venture Capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment...
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What's Advertising Content Worth?: Evidence From A Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Firms spend billions of dollars developing advertising content, yet there is little field evidence on how much or how it affects demand. The authors analyze a direct mail field experiment in South...
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Understanding The Mechanisms Through Which An In Uential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes James Heckman, Lena Malofeeva, Rodrigo Pinto, and Peter Savelyev
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Perry Preschool program was a randomized social experiment with long run followup that supplemented the early environments of disadvantaged African Ameri-can children. Evidence from the...
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From Farm To Fork: innovations In The Chicago Food Industry
March 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) are pleased to sponsor and present this White Paper,...
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Long Term Persistence
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Is social capital long lasting? Does it affect long term economic performance? To answer these questions author tested Putnam's conjecture that today marked differences in social capital between...
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Media Versus Special Interests
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author argues that profit-maximizing media help overcome the problem of "Rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing make elected representatives more sensitive to the...
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Measuring Media Slant:How Market Forces Influence Newspaper Content
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Political pundits on both sides of the aisle accuse newspapers of maintaining a liberal or conservative bias. New research suggests that newspapers choose their political slant based on what their...
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Asset Pricing Tests With Long Run Risks In Consumption Growth
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Bansal and Yaron (2004) model of Long Run Risks (LLR) in aggregate consumption and dividend growth and its extension that captures potential co-integration of the consumption and dividend...
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Control Of Corporate Decisions: Shareholders Vs. Management
May 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Activist shareholders have lately been attempting to assert themselves in a struggle with management and regulators over control of corporate decisions. These efforts have met with mixed success....
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Second Sourcing Vs. Sole Sourcing With Capacity Investment and Asymmetric Information
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In a sole-sourcing strategy, the buyer commits to source from a single supplier (the incumbent) over the entire horizon. In a second-sourcing strategy, the buyer keeps the option open to source...
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Learning to Identify Locally Actionable Health Anomalies
January 19, 2010, 12:00am PST
Local information access (LIA) programs tap into existing public health data flows, and present data in simple and useful ways to ground staff. LIAs hold great potential for improving rural health...
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Effective Use of Dedicated Wide-Area Networks for High-Performance Distributed Computing
February 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recent advances in Grid technology have made it possible to build so-called computational Grids, or simply Grids, which couple unique or rare resources that are geographically separated and span...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Faculty Panel On Ethics And Wall Street
January 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Booth faculty members Steve N. Kaplan, Tobias Moskowitz and Luigi Zingales spoke at a Myron Scholes Global Market Forum event sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets. They offered advice to...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Household Leverage And The Recession Of 2007 To 2009
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Associate Professor of Finance Amir Sufitalked to students at a Becker Brown Bag Series sponsored by the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory about research that suggests household leverage plays...
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Chicago Booth Podcast: Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?
February 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This broadcast features faculty member and former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner talking about the financial crisis and reform. He discussed his first-hand experiences including the...
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Fair Exchange of Short Signatures without Trusted Third Party
November 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
Nowadays it is more and more common to trade digital goods on the web: E-books, software licenses, avatar-games currencies like Ultima Online to cite a few. Whether these goods are exchanged on...
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Communication Analysis of Parallel 3D FFT for Flat Cartesian Meshes on Large Blue Gene Systems
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Parallel 3D FFT is a commonly used numerical method in scientific computing. P3DFFT is a recently proposed implementation of parallel 3D FFT that is designed to allow scalability to massively...
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Parametric Polymorphism Through Run-Time Sealing Or, Theorems for Low, Low Prices!
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors show how to extend System F's parametricity guarantee to a Matthews-Findler-style multi-language system that combines System F with an untyped language by use of dynamic sealing. While...
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Regular-Expression Derivatives Reexamined
August 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The derivative of a set of strings S with respect to a symbol a is the set of strings generated by stripping the leading a from the strings in S that start with a. For regular sets of strings,...
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A Declarative API for Particle Systems
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent trends in computer-graphics APIs and hardware have made it practical to use high-level functional languages for real-time graphics applications. Thus the authors have the opportunity to...
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Toward a Parallel Implementation of Concurrent ML
December 14, 2007, 12:00am PST
Concurrent ML (CML) is a high-level message-passing language that supports the construction of first-class synchronous abstractions called events. This mechanism has proven quite effective over...
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Arity Raising in Manticore
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Compilers for polymorphic languages are required to treat values in programs in an abstract and generic way at the source level. The challenges of optimizing the boxing of raw values, flattening...
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Garbage Collection for Multicore NUMA Machines
May 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Modern high-end machines feature multiple processor packages, each of which contains multiple independent cores and integrated memory controllers connected directly to dedicated physical RAM....
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Globus GridFTP: What's New in 2007 (Invited Paper)
September 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
GridFTP is a high-performance, secure, reliable data transfer protocol optimized for high-bandwidth wide-area networks. It is based on the Internet FTP protocol, and it defines extensions for...
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A GridFTP Transport Driver for Globus XIO
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
GridFTP is a high-performance, reliable data transfer protocol optimized for high-bandwidth wide-area networks. Based on the Internet FTP protocol, it defines extensions for highperformance...
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Resource Leasing and the Art of Suspending Virtual Machines
April 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by "Infrastructure-as-a-service" clouds, but also poses several scheduling challenges....
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Enabling Cost-Effective Resource Leases With Virtual Machines
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Leasing resources for short periods of time can be of great value to many applications. Applications consisting of workflows of small tasks (such as Montage [5], GADU [6] or fMRI [7]), can be more...
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Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As virtual appliances become more prevalent, the authors encounter the need to stop manually adapting them to their deployment context each time they are deployed. They examine appliance...
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The Failure Of Models That Predict Failure: Distance, Incentives And Defaults
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Using data on securitized subprime loans issued in the period 1997 - 2006, the authors demonstrate that as the degree of securitization increases, interest rates on new loans rely increasingly on...
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Cumulus: An Open Source Storage Cloud for Science
March 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Amazon's S3 protocol has emerged as the de facto interface for storage in the commercial data cloud. However, it is closed source and unavailable to the numerous science data centers all over the...
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Productivity Losses From Financial Frictions: Can Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation?
December 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Does capital misallocation from financial frictions cause substantial aggregate productivity losses? To explore this question, the author proposes a highly tractable theory featuring entrepreneurs...
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Credit Constraints And Investment In Human Capital: Training Evidence From Emerging Markets
May 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Using a unique survey database of 9,655 firms from 27 emerging markets, the authors find that lack of access to finance in general, and to bank credit in particular, is associated with...
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Which Indonesian Home Purchasers Seek Mortgage Finance?
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The incidence of taking a mortgage loan from a commercial bank or cooperative for home purchase is sharply lower in developing than industrialized countries. Indeed, the common approach for...
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Financial Markets And The Real Economy
September 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author survey works on the intersection between macroeconomics and finance. The challenge is to find the right measure of "Bad times," rises in the marginal value of wealth, so the people can...
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Institutional Emergence In An Era Of Globalization: The Rise Of Transnational Private Regulation Of Labor And Environmental Conditions
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Why have systems of "Transnational private regulation" recently emerged to certify corporate social and environmental performance? Different conceptions of institutional emergence underlie...
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Globalization And Executive Compensation: An Analysis Of Pay Practices In U.K. Companies
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact that interactions with the United States market have on the compensation practices of non-US firms. The authors find strong evidence that the total compensation of...
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Financing Speculative Booms
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the financing of speculative asset-market booms in a standard framework with heterogeneous beliefs and short-sales constraints. Cash-constrained optimists use their asset...
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Capacity Analysis in Multi-State Synaptic Models: A Retrieval Probability Perspective
September 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors define the memory capacity of networks of binary neurons with finite-state synapses in terms of retrieval probabilities of learned patterns under standard asynchronous dynamics with a...
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Precise Capacity Analysis in Binary Networks With Multiple Coding Level Inputs
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors compute retrieval probabilities as a function of pattern age for networks with binary neurons and synapses updated with the simple Hebbian learning model studied in (Amit & Fusi 1994)....
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Accelerating the Pace of Discovery by Changing the Peer Review Algorithm
November 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The number of scientific publications is constantly rising, increasing the strain on the review process. The number of submissions is actually higher, as each manuscript is often reviewed several...
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Extensible Component Based Architecture for FLASH, a Massively Parallel, Multiphysics Simulation Code
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
FLASH is a publicly available high performance application code which has evolved into a modular, extensible software system from a collection of unconnected legacy codes. FLASH has been...
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TACC Technical Report TR-11-01 Finite Element Integration on GPUs
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) present a promising platform for scientific simulation, offering high performance with excellent power and cost efficiency. However, despite advances in...
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Mapping the Gnutella Network: Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems and Implications for System Design
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Despite recent excitement generated by the Peer-To-Peer (P2P) paradigm and the surprisingly rapid deployment of some P2P applications, there are few quantitative evaluations of P2P systems...
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A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Location in Grid Environments
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Computational grids provide mechanisms for sharing and accessing large and heterogeneous collections of remote resources such as computers, online instruments, storage space, data, and...
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Improving Data Availability Through Dynamic Model-Driven Replication in Large Peer-to-Peer Communities
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Efficient data sharing in global peer-to-peer systems is complicated by erratic node failure, unreliable network connectivity and limited bandwidth. Replicating data on multiple nodes can improve...
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A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, and opportunistic....
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Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Locating files based on their names is an essential mechanism for large-scale data sharing collaborations. A Peer-To-Peer (P2P) approach is preferable in many cases due to its ability to operate...
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Extreme-Scale Scripting: Opportunities for Large Task-Parallel Applications on Petascale Computers
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Parallel scripting is a loosely-coupled programming model in which applications are composed of highly parallel scripts of program invocations that process and exchange data via files. The authors...
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Adjustment In The Euro Area And Regulation Of Product And Labour Markets: An Empirical Assessment
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses how price-competitiveness (measured by both real exchange rate and inflation differentials) adjusts with the euro area and what role labour and product market regulations can...
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The Data-gov Wiki: A Semantic Web Portal for Linked Government Data
September 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the Data-gov Wiki, the authors have published billions of triples and built a couple of interesting applications/demos from gov-data. In most of the demos, a SPARQL web service played an...
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Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence From India
June 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Globalization has changed job opportunities in much of the developing world. In India, outsourcing has created a new class of high-skill jobs which have increased overall returns to schooling....
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The Simple Economics Of Extortion: Evidence From Trucking In Aceh
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper tests whether the behavior of corrupt officials is consistent with standard industrial organization theory. The authors designed a study in which surveyors accompanied Indonesian truck...
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Non Pecuniary Benefits Of Small Business Ownership
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors find non pecuniary benefits of business ownership to be an important consideration in explaining small business formation. Using a variety of data sources, the authors show that the...
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Non-Pecuniary Benefits Of Small Business Ownership
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore the importance of non-pecuniary benefits in explaining small business formation. First, using new data from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, the...
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Inflation And Taxes In A Growing Economy With Debt And Equity Finance
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
The tax system was designed for an economy with little or no inflation. The current paper shows that inflation causes capricious changes in the effective rate of tax on capital income and...
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