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Arguably the most important campaign finance regulations in U.S. federal elections are limits imposed on the amount that an individual or organization may donate to a federal campaign. Such contribution limits are advocated on two separate grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the...
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We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.
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- uncertainty, complexity and rank. First, the concept of epistemic uncertainty is sufficient for modeling and the concept of … model rank, as the Cowles Foundation erroneously prescribed in the early 1950s, and superimposing that model rank on the … data, when a model is estimated. But the model rank does not have to be presumed: it can be identified from the data and …
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A novel algorithm is developed for the problem of finding a low-rank correlation matrix nearest to a given correlation … within a fixed computational time. The problem of rank reduction of correlation matrices occurs when pricing a derivative …
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Geometric optimisation algorithms are developed that efficiently find the nearest low-rank correlation matrix. We show … nearest low-rank correlation matrix occurs as part of the calibration of multi-factor interest rate market models to …
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excess leverage and excess capital stock and also reveal signs of corporate inertia. This inertia has been evident not only …
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After experiencing high and persistent inflation for more than two decades, Turkey is entering a period of single-digit inflation again. Following a summary of the macroeconomic developments occurred since early 1970s, this paper attempts to survey the empirical literature both on the dynamics...
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repeated games if a full dimensionality condition holds. A critical feature of the model is the inertia in decisions. We show … how the inertia in asynchronous decisions determines the set of equilibrium payoffs. …
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We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...
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economical inequality that shall be overcome to prepare the world market era. This paper suggests on making such a preparation by … consumption on luxurious goods for the rich, and higher the economical equality for the poor. This will be far from spoiling the …
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