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Case Studies
Resource Optimization Through Performance Modeling And Scheduling
Jul 2008
Synopsys' old data center environments had low utilization, averaging 10-20%, which resulted in excess use of hardware and energy. To improve, Synopsys centralized and then optimized access to its...
Provided by Silicon Valley Leadership Group
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Case Studies
India's Suguna Poultry Farm Ltd.: Can it Go Pan- India with its Current Business Model?
Feb 2010
Coimbatore-based Suguna Poultry Farm Ltd. (Suguna) has successfully established itself in the Indian poultry industry and is currently the world's fourth largest player in the broiler segment. The...
Provided by IBS Case Development Centre
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White Papers
A Note On The Economics And Statistics Of Predictability: A Long Run Risks Perspective
Nov 2007
Asset return and cash flow predictability is of considerable interest in financial economics. The debate regarding return and cash flow predictability has been at center stage in finance for...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Cointegration And Long-Run Asset Allocation
May 2007
violations of the expectations hypothesis in bond and foreign exchange markets. The authors argue that key economic channels featured in the long-run risks model - long-run growth fluctuations and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Some Evidence On The Nature And Growth Of Input Trade
Feb 2010
In this paper the authors examine the determinants of input trade. They employ an extension of a widely used model of intermediate input trade in which inputs and final goods are considered...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
"Fiscal Policy And Asset Markets: A Semiparametric Analysis"
Aug 2007
Using a flexible semiparametric varying coefficient model specification, this paper examines the role of fiscal policy on the U.S. asset markets (stocks, corporate and treasury bonds). This paper...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
The Greek Bank-Insurance Model: A Look At A Not-So-New Corporate Structure
Nov 2008
One of the notable characteristics of modern financial markets is the convergence among financial institutions, which until recently preformed different tasks. To this end, the present study...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Practical Issues With State Space Models with Mixed Stationary And Non-Stationary Dynamics
Nov 2009
State-space models, and the state-space representation of data, are an important tool for econometric modeling and computation. However, when applied to observed (rather than detrended) data, many...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
The Fractional Merton Model: A New Approach To Credit Risk Pricing (Revised)
Oct 2008
Merton model is known to underestimate credit spreads. In this paper the authors develop the theoretical framework of the fractional Merton model, which allows to embed long memory properties of...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
The Fractional Merton Model: A New Approach To Credit Risk Pricing
Mar 2008
In this paper the authors develop the theoretical framework of the fractional Merton model, which allows to embed long memory properties of spreads in a straightforward manner in a credit risk...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Theory Testing In Economics And The Error Statistical Perspective
Apr 2008
The main thesis of this paper is that the error statistical perspective can provide a coherent framework wherein the 'third way' can foster its twin goals of developing an adequate methodology and...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Philosophy Of Econometrics
Dec 2007
The current state of applied econometrics, viewed as the empirical understructure of economics, calls for much greater attention to be paid to the philosophical foundations of empirical modeling....
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Functional Data Analysis: A New Approach For Predicting Market Penetration Of New Products
Jan 2008
The Bass (1969) model has been a standard for analyzing and predicting the market penetration of new products. The authors demonstrate the insights to be gained and predictive performance of...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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White Papers
A Model-Independent Measure Of Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk
Feb 2008
This paper introduces a model-independent measure of aggregate idiosyncratic risk, which does not require estimation of market betas or correlations and is based on the concept of gain from...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
On Adam Smith, Gordon Gecko And Controls On Self-Interest
Sep 2009
Maybe it's due to technology, maybe the global economy or maybe the revelations about corporate behaviour as one company after another, melting down and asking for taxpayer aid, laid bare the...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
An Empirical Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Covariance-Based And Variance-Based SEM
Aug 2009
Variance-based SEM, also known under the term partial least squares (PLS) analysis, is an approach that has gained increasing interest among marketing researchers in recent years. During the last...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Value Creation And Value Capture With Frictions
Jun 2009
The authors use a formal value-based model to study how frictions in the product market affect value creation and value capture. The authors define frictions as incomplete linkages in the industry...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Corporate Responsibility And Operations Management
Sep 2008
The world has changed since the "Limits to Growth" book of the Club of Rome in the 70s, and so has the discipline of Operations Management. The 80s and 90s brought dramatic innovations like Total...
Provided by INSEAD
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Downloads
BRMS Buyer's eKit
Aug 2010
Selecting the right software is the first step in obtaining fast ROI from a business rule management system (BRMS). These tools will help you make the right decision.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Systems - A Business That Runs Itself
Apr 2010
The key to your personal success and the overall success of your business rests in your continued ability to improve your processes. To improve a process, you need to design it so that it has a...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Sri Lanka's Sources Of Growth
Sep 2007
This paper uses the growth accounting framework to assess Sri Lanka's sources of growth. It finds that while labor was the dominant factor contributing to growth in the 1980s, labor's contribution...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Whitepapers
The one system that will unite all the others
Nov 2010
The ROI and TCO for data center computing depends on CIO willingness to make fact based decisions, removing emotion from the application platform decision making process. The platform choices...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Mondial Assistance group - Blueprint
Dec 2010
Mondial Assistance Group is the worldwide leader in assistance services and travel insurance, spanning 28 countries in 5 continents. Mondial Assistance is best known for services including...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Security and the Cloud
Oct 2010
This new Forrester Research white paper explores the current security landscape in cloud services and analyzes the emergence and likely evolution of highly secure, trusted cloud services over the...
Provided by Citrix Online
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White Papers
The Benefits Of Visual Rules For Business Applications
May 2010
Business rules are the foundation of applications that evolve - systems where changes can be executed quickly, with a minimum of expenditure and risk, while remaining completely transparent and...
Provided by Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
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White Papers
Opinions As Incentives
Nov 2007
The authors study a model where a Decision Maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Asymptotic Equivalence Of Probabilistic Serial And Random Priority Mechanisms
Oct 2008
The random priority mechanism is a common method for assigning objects to individuals. The mechanism is easy to implement and strategy-proof. However this mechanism is inefficient, as the agents...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Preferences And Equilibrium In Monopoly And Duopoly
Aug 2009
This paper takes the new approach of using a copula to characterize consumer preferences in a discrete choice model of product differentiation, and applies it to the economics of monopoly and...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Optimal Target Criteria For Stabilization Policy
Feb 2010
This paper considers a general class of nonlinear rational-expectations models in which policymakers seek to maximize an objective function that may be household expected utility. The authors show...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
DSGE Model Restrictions For Structural VAR Identification
Oct 2010
The identification of reduced-form VAR model had been the subject of numerous debates in the literature. Different sets of identifying assumptions can lead to very different conclusions in the...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Evolving Macroeconomic Dynamics In A Small Open Economy: An Estimated Markov-Switching DSGE Model For The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper carries out a systematic investigation into the possibility of structural shifts in the UK economy using a Markov-switching Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model. The...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Using Estimated Models To Assess Nominal And Real Rigidities In The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of inflation dynamics in the United Kingdom by estimating two dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models and assessing the role of nominal and...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Evaluating And Estimating A DSGE Model For The United Kingdom
Mar 2010
The authors build a small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, featuring many types of nominal and real frictions that have become standard in the literature. In an attempt...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
An Agent-Based Model Of Payment Systems
Aug 2008
This paper lays out and simulates a multi-agent, multi-period model of an RTGS payment system. At the beginning of the day, banks choose how much costly liquidity to allocate to the settlement...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Investigating The Structural Stability Of The Phillips Curve Relationship
May 2008
The reduced-form correlation between inflation and measures of real activity has changed substantially for the main developed economies over the post-WWII period. In this paper the authors attempt...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Efficient Frameworks For Sovereign Borrowing
Mar 2008
This paper presents a theoretical model of strategic default to assess how national and international policymakers should seek to influence the cost of default and the distribution of bargaining...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Evolving International Inflation Dynamics: Evidence From A Time-Varying Dynamic Factor Model
Feb 2008
Several industrialised countries have had a similar inflation experience in the past 30 years, with inflation high and volatile in the 1970s and the 1980s but low and stable in the most recent...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Escaping Nash And Volatile Inflation
Jul 2007
This paper suggests that the United Kingdom, United States and other countries may have escaped from volatile inflation equilibrium. The argument builds on the story proposed by Tom Sargent in The...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Asset Pricing Implications Of A New Keynesian Model
Jul 2009
To match the stylized facts of goods and labor markets, the canonical New Keynesian model augments the optimizing neoclassical growth model with nominal and real rigidities. The authors ask what...
Provided by Bank of England
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White Papers
Changing Traditions In Industrial Relations Research
Jul 2008
In Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Industrial Relations Research, the authors made a number of points about the way in which IR research is undertaken, and how it might...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Tobit Or Not Tobit?
Nov 2009
Time-use surveys collect very detailed information about individuals' activities over a short period of time, typically one day. As a result, a large fraction of observations have values of zero...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Treatment Evaluation In The Case Of Interactions Within Markets
Jan 2010
The authors extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Beliefs And Actions In The Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables To Estimate The Causal Effect
Jan 2010
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's expectation about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Changes In Job Stability: Evidence From Lifetime Job Histories
Jan 2010
The authors use lifetime job histories from the pension records to evaluate changes in job stability in Finland between 1963 and 2004. They specify a duration model and estimate the effects of...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence From Canada Using Group Size Variation
Jan 2010
The authors provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Returns To Education And Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence From Argentina
Feb 2010
Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic volatility. In this paper, the author provides the most consistent estimates of...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Bank Failures: The Limitations Of Risk Modelling
Oct 2008
This paper argues that overconfidence on the part of bankers and regulators in mechanical risk management models is an important and distinctive driver of bank failures in the current crisis....
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
After The Party's Over: The Irish Employment Model And The Paradoxes Of Non-Learning
Aug 2011
Until 2008 Ireland was the poster boy of neo-liberal politicians. With its economic growth for over two decades at times reaching Asian proportions, the so-called Celtic Tiger apparently...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Dependence Modeling Of Joint Extremes Via Copulas: A Dynamic Portfolio Allocation Perspective
Nov 2007
Recent empirical evidence highlights the importance of asymmetries in the distribution of asset returns in both their marginal behavior in terms of skewness and their dependence structure in that...
Provided by HEC Montreal
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White Papers
The Impact Of Degree Class On The First Destinations Of Graduates: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Mar 2010
This paper uses a regression-discontinuity design to identify the causal impact of degree class on the first destinations of UK graduates. The authors exploit the discontinuous relationship...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Aggregate Trading Behavior Of Technical Models And The Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate
Jun 2007
The paper analyzes the interaction between the trading behavior of 1024 moving average and momentum models and the fluctuations of the yen/dollar exchange rate. The author shows first that these...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Swedish Economic Model
Oct 2007
This paper describes the remarkable success of Sweden over the past 15 years. The success has come after decades of sluggish growth, during which Sweden managed to lose its substantial lead in per...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Performance Differences In Europe: Tentative Hypotheses On The Role Of Institutions
Oct 2007
Low growth in Europe and persistently high unemployment raised the question whether it was the specific features of the European Social Model, which lead to these disappointing results. This paper...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Combining A Demand System With The Household Production Approach: Modelling Energy Demand In Selected European Countries
Feb 2008
This paper sets up a model of private consumption for selected EU countries with special emphasis on the impact of energy efficiency on energy demand. Starting point for the analysis is the idea...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Modelling The Energy Demand Of Households In A Combined Top Down/Bottom Up Approach
May 2008
This paper deals with integrating elements of a bottom-up model of energy demand into a top-down model of total private consumption. The bottom-up elements are represented by the energy efficiency...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Moving Across Borders: Who Is Willing To Migrate Or To Commute?
Jun 2008
This paper analyses the willingness to commute and migrate across borders. The authors focus on differences in the effects of individual characteristics on the willingness to migrate and the...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Aggregate Trading Behaviour Of Technical Models And The Yen-Dollar Exchange Rate 1976-2007
Jul 2008
The paper analyzes the interaction between the trading behaviour of 1024 moving average and momentum models and the fluctuations of the yen/dollar exchange rate. The author shows first that these...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Tourism Forecasting: Accuracy Of Alternative Econometric Models Revisited
Aug 2008
This paper evaluates the forecasting accuracy of five alternative econometric models in the context of predicting the quarterly international tourism demand in 25 countries/country groupings....
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Commuting, Residence And Workplace Location Attractiveness And Local Public Goods
Feb 2010
Being at the heart of today's working life, commuting is of central interest to geographers, policy makers, transport planners and economists alike. This paper analyzes aggregate commuting using...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
On The Design Of Data Sets For Forecasting With Dynamic Factor Models
Jul 2010
Forecasts from dynamic factor models potentially benefit from refining the data set by eliminating uninformative series. The paper proposes to use forecast weights as provided by the factor model...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
An Intertemporal Optimisation Model Of Households In An E3-Model (Economy/Energy/Environment) Framework
Nov 2010
This paper deals with the total CO2 impact of households in a simple dynamic E3-model (economy/energy/environment), comprising a model block of private consumption and an input-output model. The...
Provided by Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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White Papers
Modeling Employment Dynamics With State Dependence And Unobserved Heterogeneity
Apr 2010
This paper extends existing work on labor force participation dynamics by distinguishing between full-time and part-time employment and allowing unobserved heterogeneity in the effects of previous...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Individual Determinants Of Work Attendance: Evidence On The Role Of Personality
May 2010
The authors investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using representative data for Germany. In particular, the 2005 wave of the German...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Failure Of Asset Pricing Models: Transaction Cost, Irrationality, Or Missing Factors
Dec 2007
The reason for the failure of asset pricing models can be divided into three categories: Transaction costs, investor irrationality, or missing risk factors. This paper investigates which of the...
Provided by Seoul National University
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White Papers
Fama And French Factors In Australia
Nov 2007
This paper analyses the size and book to market effects and the ability of the Fama and French (1993) three factor model to explain the cross-section of returns. Previous studies in Australia have...
Provided by University of Queensland
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White Papers
Does Bargaining Matter In The Small Firm Matching Model?
Sep 2010
In this paper, the authors use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. They apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Real Wages And The Business Cycle In Germany
Sep 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods, the authors apply the deterministic trend model, the...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Linearity In Instrumental Variables Estimation: Problems And Solutions
Sep 2010
The linear IV estimator, in which the dependent variable is a linear function of a potentially endogenous regressor, is a major workhorse in empirical economics. When this regressor takes on...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Economic Reform, Informal-formal Sector Linkages And Intervention In The Informal Sector In Developing Countries: A Paradox
Oct 2010
Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is procyclical /...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Matched Fundraising: Evidence From A Natural Field Experiment
Oct 2010
The authors present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
How To Control For Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based On The Propensity Score
Oct 2010
The authors investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observable covariates is...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Nonresponse And Focal Point Answers To Subjective Probability Questions
Oct 2010
The authors develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. They explicitly account...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Tests Of Two Optimal Incentive Models
Nov 2007
With the advantage of observing abnormal stock returns around executive stock option grants the authors are able to document the shareholder wealth effects of grants and their properties, notably...
Provided by University of Adelaide
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White Papers
(The Evolution Of) Post-Secondary Education: A Computational Model And Experiments
Jun 2008
The authors propose a computational model to study (the evolution of) post-secondary education. "Consumers" who differ in quality shop around for desirable colleges or universities. "Firms" that...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Penalty Interest Rates, Universal Default, And The Common Pool Problem Of Credit Card Debt
Mar 2008
It is now reasonably well understood that unsecured credit such as credit card debt poses a common-pool problem. Since it is not secured by any collateral and since recoveries will be allocated...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Learning In An Estimated Medium-Scale DSGE Model
Nov 2009
In this paper, the authors evaluate the empirical relevance of learning by private agents in an estimated medium - scale DSGE model. They replace the standard rational expectation assumption in...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Announced Regime Switch: Optimal Policy For Transition Period
Dec 2009
The novelty of this paper is the presentation of the theoretical framework that allows to model announced change of the monetary regime. The author analyzes behavior of small open economy that...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
The Effect Of Time In A Multi-Dimensional Marriage Market Model
Sep 2010
In the paper, the author develops a theoretical model of a marriage market that accounts for the effect of aging on agents' wealth and physical attractiveness. Furthermore, the author uses the...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
A Note On Equilibrium Uniqueness In The Baron-Ferejohn Model
May 2011
The Baron-Ferejohn multilateral bargaining model predicts a payoff-unique Stationary Subgame Perfect Equilibrium (SSPE) in which players' equilibrium strategies are not uniquely determined. In...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Rational Inattention To Discrete Choices: A New Foundation For The Multinomial Logit Model
Jun 2011
Often, individuals must choose among discrete alternatives with imperfect information about their values, such as selecting a job candidate, a vehicle or a university. Before choosing, they may...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Some Evidence On The Nature And Growth Of Input Trade
Feb 2010
In this paper the authors examine the determinants of input trade. They employ an extension of a widely used model of intermediate input trade in which inputs and final goods are considered...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
"Fiscal Policy And Asset Markets: A Semiparametric Analysis"
Aug 2007
Using a flexible semiparametric varying coefficient model specification, this paper examines the role of fiscal policy on the U.S. asset markets (stocks, corporate and treasury bonds). This paper...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
The Greek Bank-Insurance Model: A Look At A Not-So-New Corporate Structure
Nov 2008
One of the notable characteristics of modern financial markets is the convergence among financial institutions, which until recently preformed different tasks. To this end, the present study...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Practical Issues With State Space Models with Mixed Stationary And Non-Stationary Dynamics
Nov 2009
State-space models, and the state-space representation of data, are an important tool for econometric modeling and computation. However, when applied to observed (rather than detrended) data, many...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
The Fractional Merton Model: A New Approach To Credit Risk Pricing (Revised)
Oct 2008
Merton model is known to underestimate credit spreads. In this paper the authors develop the theoretical framework of the fractional Merton model, which allows to embed long memory properties of...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
The Fractional Merton Model: A New Approach To Credit Risk Pricing
Mar 2008
In this paper the authors develop the theoretical framework of the fractional Merton model, which allows to embed long memory properties of spreads in a straightforward manner in a credit risk...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Theory Testing In Economics And The Error Statistical Perspective
Apr 2008
The main thesis of this paper is that the error statistical perspective can provide a coherent framework wherein the 'third way' can foster its twin goals of developing an adequate methodology and...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Philosophy Of Econometrics
Dec 2007
The current state of applied econometrics, viewed as the empirical understructure of economics, calls for much greater attention to be paid to the philosophical foundations of empirical modeling....
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Functional Data Analysis: A New Approach For Predicting Market Penetration Of New Products
Jan 2008
The Bass (1969) model has been a standard for analyzing and predicting the market penetration of new products. The authors demonstrate the insights to be gained and predictive performance of...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
-
White Papers
A Model-Independent Measure Of Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk
Feb 2008
This paper introduces a model-independent measure of aggregate idiosyncratic risk, which does not require estimation of market betas or correlations and is based on the concept of gain from...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
On Adam Smith, Gordon Gecko And Controls On Self-Interest
Sep 2009
Maybe it's due to technology, maybe the global economy or maybe the revelations about corporate behaviour as one company after another, melting down and asking for taxpayer aid, laid bare the...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
An Empirical Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Covariance-Based And Variance-Based SEM
Aug 2009
Variance-based SEM, also known under the term partial least squares (PLS) analysis, is an approach that has gained increasing interest among marketing researchers in recent years. During the last...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Value Creation And Value Capture With Frictions
Jun 2009
The authors use a formal value-based model to study how frictions in the product market affect value creation and value capture. The authors define frictions as incomplete linkages in the industry...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Corporate Responsibility And Operations Management
Sep 2008
The world has changed since the "Limits to Growth" book of the Club of Rome in the 70s, and so has the discipline of Operations Management. The 80s and 90s brought dramatic innovations like Total...
Provided by INSEAD
-
Downloads
BRMS Buyer's eKit
Aug 2010
Selecting the right software is the first step in obtaining fast ROI from a business rule management system (BRMS). These tools will help you make the right decision.
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Systems - A Business That Runs Itself
Apr 2010
The key to your personal success and the overall success of your business rests in your continued ability to improve your processes. To improve a process, you need to design it so that it has a...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Sri Lanka's Sources Of Growth
Sep 2007
This paper uses the growth accounting framework to assess Sri Lanka's sources of growth. It finds that while labor was the dominant factor contributing to growth in the 1980s, labor's contribution...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
Whitepapers
The one system that will unite all the others
Nov 2010
The ROI and TCO for data center computing depends on CIO willingness to make fact based decisions, removing emotion from the application platform decision making process. The platform choices...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Securing Your Mobile Workforce
Nov 2010
This three-part report describes how all businesses can benefit from SaaS services, in particular the variety of services that make up hosted services from Symantec. It also provides advice, best...
Provided by Symantec
-
Whitepapers
Mondial Assistance group - Blueprint
Dec 2010
Mondial Assistance Group is the worldwide leader in assistance services and travel insurance, spanning 28 countries in 5 continents. Mondial Assistance is best known for services including...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Security and the Cloud
Oct 2010
This new Forrester Research white paper explores the current security landscape in cloud services and analyzes the emergence and likely evolution of highly secure, trusted cloud services over the...
Provided by Citrix Online
-
White Papers
Sustainable Operations Management
Mar 2006
Operations management researchers and practitioners face new challenges in integrating issues of sustainability with their traditional areas of interest. During the past 20 years, there has been...
Provided by Production and Operations Management Society
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White Papers
The Correct Shared Services Model Increases Business Process Efficiencies
Mar 2006
To compete in an ever-changing, increasingly aggressive market companies must increase their flexibility and responsiveness by automating processes and streamlining administrative functions....
Provided by KeyMark
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White Papers
The Benefits Of Visual Rules For Business Applications
May 2010
Business rules are the foundation of applications that evolve - systems where changes can be executed quickly, with a minimum of expenditure and risk, while remaining completely transparent and...
Provided by Bosch Software Innovations GmbH
-
White Papers
Opinions As Incentives
Nov 2007
The authors study a model where a Decision Maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Asymptotic Equivalence Of Probabilistic Serial And Random Priority Mechanisms
Oct 2008
The random priority mechanism is a common method for assigning objects to individuals. The mechanism is easy to implement and strategy-proof. However this mechanism is inefficient, as the agents...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Preferences And Equilibrium In Monopoly And Duopoly
Aug 2009
This paper takes the new approach of using a copula to characterize consumer preferences in a discrete choice model of product differentiation, and applies it to the economics of monopoly and...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Optimal Target Criteria For Stabilization Policy
Feb 2010
This paper considers a general class of nonlinear rational-expectations models in which policymakers seek to maximize an objective function that may be household expected utility. The authors show...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
DSGE Model Restrictions For Structural VAR Identification
Oct 2010
The identification of reduced-form VAR model had been the subject of numerous debates in the literature. Different sets of identifying assumptions can lead to very different conclusions in the...
Provided by Bank of England
-
White Papers
Evolving Macroeconomic Dynamics In A Small Open Economy: An Estimated Markov-Switching DSGE Model For The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper carries out a systematic investigation into the possibility of structural shifts in the UK economy using a Markov-switching Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model. The...
Provided by Bank of England
-
White Papers
Using Estimated Models To Assess Nominal And Real Rigidities In The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of inflation dynamics in the United Kingdom by estimating two dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models and assessing the role of nominal and...
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Evaluating And Estimating A DSGE Model For The United Kingdom
Mar 2010
The authors build a small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, featuring many types of nominal and real frictions that have become standard in the literature. In an attempt...
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An Agent-Based Model Of Payment Systems
Aug 2008
This paper lays out and simulates a multi-agent, multi-period model of an RTGS payment system. At the beginning of the day, banks choose how much costly liquidity to allocate to the settlement...
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Investigating The Structural Stability Of The Phillips Curve Relationship
May 2008
The reduced-form correlation between inflation and measures of real activity has changed substantially for the main developed economies over the post-WWII period. In this paper the authors attempt...
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Efficient Frameworks For Sovereign Borrowing
Mar 2008
This paper presents a theoretical model of strategic default to assess how national and international policymakers should seek to influence the cost of default and the distribution of bargaining...
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Evolving International Inflation Dynamics: Evidence From A Time-Varying Dynamic Factor Model
Feb 2008
Several industrialised countries have had a similar inflation experience in the past 30 years, with inflation high and volatile in the 1970s and the 1980s but low and stable in the most recent...
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Escaping Nash And Volatile Inflation
Jul 2007
This paper suggests that the United Kingdom, United States and other countries may have escaped from volatile inflation equilibrium. The argument builds on the story proposed by Tom Sargent in The...
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Asset Pricing Implications Of A New Keynesian Model
Jul 2009
To match the stylized facts of goods and labor markets, the canonical New Keynesian model augments the optimizing neoclassical growth model with nominal and real rigidities. The authors ask what...
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Changing Traditions In Industrial Relations Research
Jul 2008
In Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Industrial Relations Research, the authors made a number of points about the way in which IR research is undertaken, and how it might...
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Partial And Complete Equality-Of-Opportunity Orderings
Jun 2007
This paper proposes a partial equality-of-opportunity ordering based on the inequality-of opportunity curve, a mechanism that gives preference to those who are worse in terms of opportunity....
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