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Akalu, Mehari Mekonnen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Analysis of the strength of value drivers is crucial to understand their influence in the process of free cash flow generation. The paper addresses the issue of value driver measurement and ranking. The research reveals that, value drivers have similar pattern across industries. Furthermore, it...

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Analytic Central Path, Sensitivity Analysis and Parametric Linear Programming

Holder, A.G.; Sturm, J.F.; Zhang, S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

In this paper we consider properties of the central path and the analytic center of the optimalface in the context of parametric linear programming. We first show that if the right-hand sidevector of a standard linear program is perturbed, then the analytic center of the optimal face isone-side...

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The Empirical Economic Growth Literature

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Heijungs, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

The empirical economic growth literature is criticized for its lack ofrobustness. For different definitions of robustness, conclusions vary from 'almost everycorrelation is fragile' to 'a substantial number of explanatory variables are robust.' Were-analyze the empirical results of the economic...

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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 Instituut - 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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Calculation of Stability Radii for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Chakravarti, Nilotpal; Wagelmans, Albert P.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

We present algorithms to calculate the stability radius of optimal or approximate solutions of binary programming problems with a min-sum or min-max objective function. Our algorithms run in polynomial time if the optimization problem itself is polynomially solvable. We also extend our results...

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Total Factor Productivity and the Mongolian Transition

Chessa, Antonio G.; Schouwstra, Marije C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years...

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A Measure-Valued Differentiation Approach to Sensitivity Analysis of Quantiles

Heidergott, Bernd; Volk-Makarewicz, Warren - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Quantiles play an important role in modelling quality of service in the service industry and in modelling risk in the financial industry. Recently, Hong showed in his breakthrough papers that efficient simulation based estimators can be obtained for quantile sensitivities by means of sample path...

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The Adoption of Energy Efficiency Enhancing Technologies

Verhoef, Erik; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that … energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of … energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under …

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Endogenous Technological Change under Uncertainty

Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

How does risk or uncertainty in the productivity of research affect the growth rate of the economy? To answer this …&D from profit-maximizing firms. The uncertainty arises from the productivity of these investments in R&D. The main result of … this analysis is that the relationship between long-run growth and uncertainty (on the productivity of knowledge creation …

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The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: A Meta-Analysis

Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …

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