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Private hospitals in Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134599
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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks
Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004
The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556647
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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - EconWPA - 2004
this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … convexity amongst the young. We also find evidence of increasing convexity over the 1990s in Tanzania, but remarkable stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118714
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Governance, Reti d’Imprese e Distretti Industriali: Considerazioni Metodologiche
Schiavone, Francesco - EconWPA - 2004
Il paper propone un'integrazione metodologica tra la teoria Williamsoniana dei costi di trnasazione e la Resource-based View nello studio delle problematiche relative alla governance nelle reti esterne di imprese, che porti all'utilizzo di una metodologia di ricerca bifronte; dopo un'introduzione...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556247
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The intermingling between cognitive economics and experimental
Novarese, Marco; Rizzello, Salvatore - EconWPA - 2004
methodological issues. Then the attention is focused on the relevance of the experimental method for the analysis of learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076658
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Genetic Action Trees A New Concept for Social and Economic Simulation
Pitz, Thomas; Chmura, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2005
which one can describe the learning behaviour of agents and the changes in action spaces. Using the extremely simplified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076915
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Agent-Based Computational Economics
Tesfatsion, Leigh - EconWPA - 2002
Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modeled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. Starting from initial conditions, specified by the modeler, the computational economy evolves over time as its constituent agents repeatedly interact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076916
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A Study of Neo-Austrian Economics using an Artificial Stock Market
Benink, Harald A.; Gordillo, Jose Luis; Pardo, Juan Pablo; … - EconWPA - 2004
An agent-based artificial financial market (AFM) is used to study market efficiency and learning in the context of the … there are many coexisting signals. Learning is introduced by considering 'copycat' traders that learn the relative values of … the different strategies in the market and copy the most successful one. We show how such learning leads to a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077021
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Multi-Unit Auctions to Allocate Water Scarcity Simulating Bidding Behaviour with Agent Based Models
Hailu, Atakelty; Thoyer, Sophie - EconWPA - 2005
Multi-unit auctions are promising mechanisms for the reallocation of water. The main advantage of such auctions is to avoid the lumpy bid issue. However, there is great uncertainty about the best auction formats when multi-unit auctions are used. The theory can only supply the structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124870
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Individual learning and team functioning
Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2004
This paper aims at studying the effects of learning - seen as a possible source of individual heterogeneity - on team … strategies learned in the past, to the new situations faced. Learning processes, yet, are not based on the mechanical repetition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125572