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Morissette, Rene; Zhang, Xuelin; Drolet, Marie - EconWPA - 2004

Using data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, we document the …

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police...

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VaR for Plan Sponsors

Stubbs, Eric; Gupta, Francis - EconWPA - 2003

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Shocks, Sensitivity and Resilience: Tracking the Economic Impacts of Environmental Disaster on Assets in Ethiopia and Honduras

Carter, Michael; Little, Peter; Mogues, Tewodaj; … - EconWPA - 2005

Droughts, hurricanes and other environmental shocks punctuate the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in many parts of the world. The direct impacts can be horrific, but what are the longer-term effects of such shocks on households and their livelihoods? Under what circumstances, and for...

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called ‘interactive learning’. We examine how knowledge … distribution of knowledge diffusion. We will show how these factors can be classified as follow: (1) learning strategies adopted by … their relative initial levels of knowledge. We shall also attempt to single out the relative effect of each of the above …

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Concentration in Knowledge Output:A Case of Economics Journals

Bino, Paul G.D.; Subash, S.; Ramanathan, A. - EconWPA - 2004

Journals moderate knowledge activity in economics. The activity of publishing article in professional journal forms … significant part of knowledge output. Output of economics articles has been growing over the time. We examine an important … question: Is there any case of institutional or location concentration in knowledge production? This paper analyses …

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Wants and Past Knowledge: Growth Cycles with Emerging Industries

Horii, Ryo - EconWPA - 2005

satisfy an indefinite range of wants and firms' incentive to utilize knowledge from past production experiences. We show that … firms endogenously form a number of distinguishable industries as accumulated knowledge induces them to agglomerate in the … technology space. Knowledge accumulation in existing industries reduces production costs, but, as the diminishing returns from …

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From Economic Activity to Understanding Spaces

Iribarren, Diego - EconWPA - 2003

This paper constructs the probability space underlying the random variable of any time dependent econometric specification. The construction links concrete economic activity, both perceived and recorded, and econometric formulations. Furthermore, it is argued that the probability events...

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The Two Faces of Knowledge Diffusion: the Chilean Case

Morone, Piergiuseppe - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses the dynamics of return to knowledge where knowledge is acquired through the combination of … interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of …

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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTERACTION:A POLICY ORIENTED STUDY OF THE AFRICAN UNION

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

POWERED BY THE DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, THE WORLD IS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE … ELECTRONICALLY AND IN INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS. KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR … IS EMPOWERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY, IT IS THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE CREATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY FOR THE …

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