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Investment, Expectations and Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence on the Relevance of Firm Size

Koetse, Mark J.; Vlist, Arno J. van der; Groot, Henri … - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse two types of investment, i ….e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies, using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty … of general investment spending. Furthermore, expectations and uncertainty have important although different effects on …

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The Outflow Ranking Method for Weighted Directed Graphs

Brink, René van den; Gilles, Robert P. - Tinbergen Institute

A ranking method assigns to every weighted directed graph a (weak) ordering

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Large Deviations without Principle: Join the Shortest Queue

Ridder, Ad; Shwartz, Adam - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We develop a methodology for studying "large deviations type" questions. Our approach does not require that the large deviations principle holds, and is thus applicable to a larg class of systems. We study a system of queues with exponential servers, which share an arrival stream. Arrivals are...

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Large Deviations Methods and the Join-the-Shortest-Queue Model

Ridder, Ad; Shwartz, Adam - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We develop a methodology for studying ''large deviations type'' questions. Our approach does not require that the large deviations principle holds, and is thus applicable to a larg class of systems. We study a system of queues with exponential servers, which share an arrival stream. Arrivals are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136883

On the Optimal Policy for Deterministic and Exponential Polling Systems

Gaujal, Bruno; Hordijk, Arie; Laan, Dinard van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper, we consider deterministic (both fluid and discrete) polling systems with N queues with infinite buffers and we show how to compute the best polling sequence (minimizing the average total workload). With two queues, the best polling sequence is always periodic when the system is...

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Finite-State Markov Chains obey Benford's Law

Kaynar, Bahar; Berger, Arno; Hill, Theodore P.; Ridder, Ad - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

A sequence of real numbers (xn) is Benford if the significands, i.e. the fraction

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Solving Discrete Zero Point Problems

Laan, Gerard van der; Talman, Dolf; Yang, Zaifu - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Abstract See document.

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Shallow Lake Economics Run Deep: Nonlinear Aspects of an Economic-Ecological Interest Conflict

Wagener, F.O.O. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Outcomes of the shallow lake interest conflict are presented in a number of different contexts: quasi-static and dynamic social planning, and quasi-static one-shot and repeated non-cooperative play. As the underlying dynamics are non-convex, the analysis uses geometrical-numerical methods: the...

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Combinatorial Integer Labeling Theorems on Finite Sets with an Application to Discrete Systems of Nonlinear Equations

Laan, Gerard van der; Talman, Dolf; Yang, Zaifu - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Tucker's well-known combinatorial lemma states that for any given symmetric triangulation of the n-dimensional unit cube and for any integer labeling that assigns to each vertex of the triangulation a label from the set {1,2,...n,-1,-2,....-n} with the property that antipodal vertices on the...

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Gradient Estimation for a Class of Systems with Bulk Services: A Problem in Public Transportation

Vazquez-Abad, Felisa J.; Heidergott, Bernd - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper deals with a system where batch arrivals wait in a station until a server (a train) is available, at which moment it services all customers in waiting. This is an example of a bulk server, which has many applications in public transportation, telecommunications, computer resource...

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