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On Consistent Neighborhood Views in Wireless Sensor Networks
July 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are characterized by localized interactions. Indeed, several WSN algorithms and protocols work in a decentralized fashion by coordinating nodes within the wireless...
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Why Are Survey Forecasts Superior To Model Forecasts?
September 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate two characteristics of survey forecasts that are shown to contribute to their superiority over purely model-based forecasts. These are that the consensus forecasts...
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How Should Financial Intermediation Services Be Taxed?
October 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes....
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Monetary Policy And Oil Prices
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the relationship between monetary policy and oil prices and, in a broader sense, commodity prices. Firstly, it focuses on describing the relationship between key macroeconomic...
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What Do Outside Experts Bring To A Committee? Evidence From The Bank Of England
October 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors test whether outside experts have information not available to insiders by using the voting record of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. Members with more private...
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The Great Recession In The U.K. Labour Market: A Transatlantic Perspective
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The increase in unemployment in the United Kingdom that accompanied the Great Recession has been conspicuous by its moderation. The rise in joblessness is dwarfed by the recent experience of the...
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The Ins And Outs Of UK Unemployment
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper shows that in the UK, increases in unemployment in a recession are driven by rises in the separation rate. A new decomposition of unemployment dynamics is devised that does not require...
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Word Of Mouth Advertising, Credibility And Learning In Networks
June 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Social networks representing the pattern of social interactions who talks to or who observes whom-play a crucial role as a medium for the spread of information, ideas, diseases, products. Someone...
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Estimation Of Search Frictions In The British Electricity Market
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies consumer search and pricing behavior in the British domestic electricity market following its opening to competition in 1999. The authors develop a sequential search model in...
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Imperfect Competition And Efficiency In Lemons Markets
August 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the impact of competition on the degree of inefficiency in lemons markets. More precisely, the authors characterize the second-best mechanism (i.e., the optimal mechanism with...
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Testing For Spatial Heterogeneity In Functional MRI Using The Multivariate General Linear Model
August 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Much current research in functional MRI employs multivariate machine learning approaches (e.g., support vector machines) to detect fine-scale spatial patterns from the temporal fluctuations of the...
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On The Theory Of A Firm: The Case Of By-Production Of Emissions
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Five attributes of emission generating technologies are identified and a concept of by production is introduced, which implies these five attributes. Murty and Russell [2010] characterization of...
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Control Rights In Complex Partnerships
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two players who are in a "Complex" partnership, that is, a partnership which produces impure public goods. The authors show that...
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Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics With Decentralized Exchange: Cautious Trading And Convergence To Efficiency
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Is the result that equilibrium trading outcomes are efficient in markets without frictions robust to a scenario where agents' beliefs and plans aren't already aligned at their equilibrium values?...
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Opting For Opting In? An Evaluation Of The European Commission's Proposals For Reforming VAT On Financial Services
February 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a legal and economic analysis of the European Commission's recent proposals for reforming the application of VAT to financial services, with particular focus on their "Third...
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Price Transmission In The UK Electricity Market: Was NETA Beneficial?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the relationship between domestic retail electricity prices in Great Britain and their determinants in the particular context of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA)...
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Topology Of Utility Possibility Frontiers Of Economies With Ramsey Taxation
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors explore the scope of employing standard assumptions and replicating standard (Kuhn-Tucker-type) techniques that are used to study the first-best Pareto frontier to the study of Pareto...
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Constraints On Income Distribution And Production Efficiency In Economies With Ramsey Taxation
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the link between second-best production efficiency and the constraints on income distribution imposed by private ownership of firms in economies with Ramsey taxation. They review...
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Domestic Vs. External Sovereign Debt Servicing: An Empirical Analysis
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the incidence of domestic and external debt crises for a sample of 53 emerging economies between 1980 and 2005. Even though there is substantial time variation in the default...
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First Announcements And Real Economic Activity
December 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
The recent literature suggests that first announcements of real output growth in the US have predictive power for the future course of the economy. The authors show that this need not point to a...
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Financial Integration Of Stock Markets Among New EU Member States And The Euro Area
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper considers the empirical dimension of financial integration among stock markets in four new European Union member states (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in comparison...
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Did The Single Market Cause Competition In Excise Taxes? Evidence From EU Countries
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
The introduction of the Single Market resulted in a switch from destination to origin-based taxation of cross-border transactions by individuals. The theory of commodity tax competition predicts...
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Some Evidence On The Future Of Economics
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper collects and studies the CVs of 112 assistant professors in the top-ten American departments of economics. The paper treats these as a glimpse of the future. The authors find evidence...
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Oil Prices, Profits, And Recessions: An Inquiry Using Terrorism As An Instrumental Variable
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Nearly all post-war recessions have been preceded by oil-price shocks, but is this because spikes in the price of petroleum cause economic downturns? Most research has ignored an identification...
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Competitive Market Mechanisms As Social Choice Procedures
July 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Social choice theory concerns itself with the proper choice of a social state from a given feasible set of social states. The main question the theory addresses is that how should social choice...
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Workers Without Borders: Culture, Migration And The Political Limits To Globalization
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics, size and nature (temporary versus permanent migration) of migration policy. The authors show that there exists a broad...
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Do Reductions Of Standard Hours Affect Employment Transitions?: Evidence From Chile
January 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper exploits the reduction of weekly working hours from 48 to 45 occurred in Chile in January 2005. The authors use this pure and exogenous policy change to identify the employment effects...
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Do Professional Forecasters Pay Attention To Data Releases?
January 26, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a novel approach to assessing the attentiveness of professional forecasters to news about the macro economy. They find evidence that professional forecasters, taken as a group,...
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Consumption Dynamics In General Equilibrium: A Characterisation When Markets Are Incomplete
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce a methodology for analyzing infinite horizon economies with two agents, one good and incomplete market. They provide an example in which an agent's equilibrium consumption is...
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Unilateral Measures And Global Emissions Mitigation
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors discuss global climate change mitigation that builds on existing unilateral actions to deliver ever deepening emission cuts over time. A wide array of unilateral...
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Corporate Control And Multiple Large Shareholders
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many firms have more than one block holder, but finance theory suggests that one block holder should be sufficient to bestow all benefits on a firm that arise from concentrated ownership. This...
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Leader Reputation And Default In Sovereign Debt
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper compares default incentives in competitive sovereign debt markets when leaders can be either democratically elected or dictators. When leaders can be replaced as in democracies, the...
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Income Rank And Upward Comparisons
January 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many studies have argued that relative income predicts individual well-being. More recently, it has been suggested that the relative rank of an individual's income, rather than how that income...
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Happiness And Productivity
December 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Little is known by economists about how emotions affect productivity. To make persuasive progress, some way has to be found to assign people exogenously to different feelings. The authors design a...
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Noncooperative Oligopoly In Markets With A Continuum Of Traders
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study three prototypical models of noncooperative oligopoly in markets with a continuum of traders: the model of Cournot-Walras equilibrium of Codognato and Gabszewicz...
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Herding And Contrarianism In A Financial Trading Experiment With Endogenous Timing
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors undertook the first market trading experiments that allowed heterogeneously informed subjects to trade in endogenous time, collecting over 2000 observed trades. Subjects' decisions...
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Cash Breeds Success: The Role Of Financing Constraints In Patent Races
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the impact of financing constraints on the equilibrium of a patent race. The authors develop a model where firms finance their R&D expenditures with an investor who cannot...
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Financial Systems, Micro-Systemic Risks And Central Bank Policy: An Analytical Taxonomy Of The Literature
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews and categorizes the literature on micro-systemic risks and on optimal policies designed to mitigate these risks. Micro-systemic risks are risks to the financial system that...
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Aversion To Price Risk And The Afternoon Effect
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many empirical studies of auctions show that prices of identical goods sold sequentially follow a declining path. Declining prices have been viewed as an anomaly, because the theoretical models of...
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When Herding And Contrarianism Foster Market Efficiency: A Financial Trading Experiment
April 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While herding has long been suspected to play a role in financial market booms and busts, theoretical analyses have struggled to identify conclusive causes for the effect. Recent theoretical work...
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Design Considerations for Asymmetric Magnetically Coupled Resonators Used in Wireless Power Transfer Applications
October 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Magnetic resonance coupling is a widely used technique for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) in biomedical and consumer electronics applications. For specific applications, device size limits the...
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A Battery-Free RFID-Based Indoor Acoustic Localization Platform
March 29, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The ability to precisely localize RFID tags with low latency and low cost is desirable for applications such as inventory, asset tracking and robotic-manipulation of tagged items. However, because...
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Towards Community Standards for Ethical Behavior in Computer Security Research
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Modern threats such as Denial of Service Attacks, Worms, Viruses, Phishing, and Botnets underscore the need for security research in an increasingly networked and computation-ally reliant society....
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A Design Space for Self-Adaptive Systems
March 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
Self-adaptive systems research is expanding as systems professionals recognize the importance of automation for managing the growing complexity, scale, and scope of software systems. The current...
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Shining Light in Dark Places: Understanding the Tor Network
July 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To date, there has yet to be a study that characterizes the usage of a real deployed anonymity service. The authors present observations and analysis obtained by participating in the Tor network....
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Non-Malleable Extractors, Two-Source Extractors and Privacy Amplification
April 9, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The broad area of randomness extraction studies the problem of converting a weakly random source into a distribution that is close to the uniform distribution in statistical distance. Over the...
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Unconditionally Secure Authenticated Encryption With Shorter Keys
April 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Confidentiality and integrity are two main objectives of security systems and the literature of cryptography is rich with proposed techniques to achieve them. To satisfy the requirements of a wide...
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Quantifying the Impact of Efficient Cross-Layer Jamming Attacks Via Network Traffic Flows
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate a class of coordinated jamming attacks in which multiple jammers collaboratively apply knowledge about the network layer functionality to efficiently reduce the throughput...
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A Metric for Quantifying Vulnerability in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless sensor networks are often used in applications where message confidentiality, integrity, and authentication are required. Cryptography is a common mechanism for meeting these security...
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Minimizing Energy Consumption in Body Sensor Networks Via Convex Optimization
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) consist of miniature sensors deployed on or implanted into the human body for health monitoring. Conserving the energy of these sensors, while guaranteeing a required...
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Efficient Authentication for Mobile and Pervasive Computing
March 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With today's technology, many applications rely on the existence of small devices that can exchange information and form communication networks. In a significant portion of such applications, the...
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An Energy Framework for the Network Simulator 3 (ns-3)
March 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The network simulator-3 (ns-3) is rapidly developing into a flexible and easy-to-use tool suitable for wireless network simulation. Since energy consumption is a key issue for wireless devices,...
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Towards a Statistical Framework for Source Anonymity in Sensor Networks
May 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In certain applications, the locations of events reported by a sensor network need to remain anonymous. That is, unauthorized observers must be unable to detect the origin of such events by...
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GeM-REM: Generative Model-Driven Resource Efficient ECG Monitoring in Body Sensor Networks
April 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With recent advances in smartphones and wearable sensors, Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have been proposed for use in continuous, remote ElectroCardioGram (ECG) monitoring. In such systems, sampling...
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Sonora: A Platform for Continuous Mobile-Cloud Computing
April 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents Sonora, a platform for mobile-cloud computing. Sonora is designed to support the development and execution of continuous mobile-cloud services. To this end, Sonora provides...
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System Design and Implementation of Broadband In-Band On-Channel Digital Radio
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present an In-Band On-Channel (IBOC) broadcasting system suitable for digital audio and data broadcasting in FM and AM channels. The new system utilizes a combination of...
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Collaborative Downloading in VANET Using Network Coding
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Data downloading on the fly is the base of commercial data services in vehicular networks, such as office-on-wheels and entertainment-on-wheels. Due to the sparse special distribution of roadside...
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Non-Coherent ToA Estimation for UWB Multipath Channels Using Max-Eigenvalue Detection
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Due to the fine delay resolution in Ultra-WideBand (UWB) wireless propagation channels, a large number of Multi-Path Components (MPC) can be resolved; and the first arriving MPC might not be the...
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A Two-Stage Approach for Network Monitoring
March 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A goal of network tomography is to infer the status (e.g., delay) of congested links internal to a network, through end-to-end measurements at boundary nodes (end-hosts) via insertion of probe...
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Multiviews Reconstruction for Prosthetic Design
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Existing methods that use a fringe projection technique for prosthetic designs produce good results for the trunk and lower limbs; however, the devices used for this purpose are expensive. This...
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Trustworthy and Effective Communication of Cybersecurity Risks: A Review
July 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Slowly but surely, academia and industry are fully accepting the importance of the human element as it pertains to achieving security and trust. Undoubtedly, one of the main motivations for this...
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Guidelines for Usable Cybersecurity: Past and Present
July 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Usability is arguably one of the most significant social topics and issues within the field of cybersecurity today. Supported by the need for confidentiality, integrity, availability and other...
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Analyzing and Improving MPI Communication Performance in Overcommitted Virtualized Systems
May 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, it is an important trend in the system domain to use the software-based virtualization technology to build the execution environments (e.g., Clouds) and serve High Performance Computing...
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Taylor Rules Cause Fiscal Policy Ineffectiveness
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With the aim of constructing a dynamic general equilibrium model where fiscal policy can operate as a demand management tool, the authors develop a framework which combines staggered prices and...
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A Chicken-Or-Egg Model Of Financing And Bidding
March 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the dynamic of outcomes in bidding markets when firms face financial constraints. The authors consider an in finite horizon game with two stages at each date. In the morning...
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The Macrodynamics Of Growing Open Economies Under Financial Convex Adjustment Costs: Critical Dynamical Thresholds And Endogenous Cycles
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Departing from the basic optimal control setup for growing open economies in continuous time, the authors put forward one main hypothesis: Is the macrodynamics structure of open economies governed...
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Emerging Floaters: Pass-Throughs And (Some) New Commodity Currencies
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In spite of early skepticism on the merits of floating exchange rate regimes in emerging markets, 8 of the 25 largest countries in this group have now had a floating exchange rate regime for more...
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Performance Analysis of Optical CDMA Systems With PPM Signaling
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
An Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access (OCDMA) system with M-ary Pulse-Position Modulation (PPM) signaling is investigated. Latin-Square based Optical Orthogonal Codes (OOCs) are proposed to be...
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The Contribution Of New Technology To Economic Growth: Lessons From Economic History
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Technological change is central to the study of economic history. Strong and sustained technological progress is the key characteristic of modern economic growth that distinguished the...
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Automated Taxonomy Generation for Summarizing Multi-Type Relational Datasets
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Taxonomy construction provides an efficient navigating and browsing mechanism to people by organizing large amounts of information into a small number of hierarchical clusters. Compared with...
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Dancing The Dow: Accounting And Financial Information Embodied
July 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is no such thing as purely propositional knowledge; embodied knowledge is a necessary part of all of our knowledge. It's not only a matter of being unable to know anything about the world...
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Wiretapping a Hidden Network
October 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of maximizing the probability of hitting a strategically chosen hidden virtual network by placing a wiretap on a single link of a communication network. This can...
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Should We Worry About Memory Loss?
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In recent years the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry has benefited from the development of higher density multi-core processors. With recent chips capable of executing up to 32 tasks in...
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Knowledge, Capabilities And Manufacturing Innovation: A US-Europe Comparison
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a comparative analysis of factors contributing to the innovation performance of manufacturing firms in Georgia (USA), Wales (UK), the West Midlands (UK), and Catalonia (Spain)....
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Envisioning, Enabling And Enacting: Metamorphosing The Enterprise P3 Diagnostic
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Previous evolution models have an intuitive logic and attempt to delineate an organic approach to organizational development and growth. They fail typically, to look at the recognition and release...
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Assessing The Effectiveness Of Business Support Services In England: Evidence from A Theory Based Evaluation
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In England, publicly supported advisory services for small firms are organized primarily through the Business Link (BL) network. Based on the program theory underlying this business support...
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Service Innovation, Embeddedness And Business Performance: UK Regional Evidence
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors explore the factors which determine the profile of innovation by service firms, and in particular the contribution of intra- and extra-regional connectivity. Subsequently...
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Are Good Or Bad Borrowers Discouraged From Applying For Loans? Evidence From US Small Business Credit Markets
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper conducts an empirical analysis on a U.S small business finance data-set to investigate which factors affect the likelihood of being a discouraged borrower. The authors find that riskier...
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Is There Ethnic Discrimination In The UK Market For Small Business Credit?
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A large scale survey of UK small business finances is analyzed for evidence of ethnic discrimination in the credit market. A summary analysis of credit outcomes (loan denials, loan interest rates...
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Signalling Process And Self-Selection Mechanism In Entrepreneurial Finance
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops Bester's (1985) model by incorporating a signaling process into the design of an incentive-compatible menu of contracts which works as a self-selection mechanism. It then tests...
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