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The Jesuits as Knowledge Brokers Between Europe and China (1582-1773): Shaping European Views of the Middle Kingdom

Millar, Ashley E. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …

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International Capital Flows under DispersedInformation: Theory and Evidence

Tille, Cédric; Van Wincoop, Eric - Finrisk - 2008

We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are specic to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …

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A survey of variants and extensions of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Hartmann, Sönke; Briskorn, Dirk - 2008

The resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) consists of activities that must be scheduled subject to precedence and resource constraints such that the makespan is minimized. It has become a well-known standard problem in the context of project scheduling which has attracted...

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Consumption, wealth, and income inequality: A tale of tails

Gaillard, Alexandre; Hellwig, Christian; Wangner, Philipp; … - 2023

We provide evidence that the distributions of consumption, labor income, wealth, and capital income exhibit asymptotic power-law behavior with a strict ranking of upper tail inequality, in that order, from the least to the most unequal. We show analytically and quantitatively that the canonical...

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