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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Soon, Willie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....

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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations

Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...

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Reorienting economics?

Mohun, Simon; Veneziani, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Reorienting economics analyses many important issues in the social sciences. This paper focuses on Lawson’s key methodological and epistemological claims concerning the role of mathematics in social theory. Lawson provides several forceful criticisms of the search of mathematical rigour for...

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An optimization-based framework for modeling counterterrorism strategies

Eiselt, H.A.; Bhadury, Joy; Burkey, Mark L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper introduces the subject of terrorism and counterterrorism by means of a two-person bimatrix game that provides some insight into the behavior of the two players. We then examine three important areas in counterterrorism tasks: the detection of terrorist cells and how to render them...

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Global warming: Forecasts by scientists versus scientific forecasts

Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group One, a panel of experts established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, issued its Fourth Assessment Report. The Report included predictions of dramatic increases in...

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Topological complexity of manifolds of preferences

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

The problem of endowing preferences with manifold structures emerged from discussions with Gerard Debreu in 1975 . Time has shown that such structures can be useful in understanding the behavior of economic systems . In Chichilnisky (1976) spaces of smooth preferences were endowed with a Hilbert...

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Competition on MARS? A study of broker-dealer competition in the U.S. municipal auction rate securities market

cole, Chip; Edwards, Jeffrey A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

-dealers and bidders results in lower municipal interest rates, the amount of literature addressing auction rate securities is … almost non-existent. The U.S. municipal auction rate securities market (MARS) offers an opportunity to expand the growing but …

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Preparing for Basel IV: why liquidity risks still present a challenge to regulators in prudential supervision

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper considers and assesses various explanations attributed as principal factors of the recent Financial Crisis. In particular, it focuses on two principal regulatory tools which constitute the basis of the framework promulgated by recent Basel Committee's initiatives, that is, Basel III....

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Corporate Debt Market in India: Issues and Challenges

Sengupta, Rajeswari; Anand, Vaibhav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

At the current time, when India is endeavoring to sustain its high growth rate, it is imperative that financing constraints in any form be removed and alternative financing channels be developed in a systematic manner for supplementing traditional bank credit. While the equity market in India...

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Economic Liberalization and the Causal Relations among Money, Income, and Prices: The Case of Pakistan

Husain, Fazal; Rashid, Abdul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This study re-examines the causal relations between money and the two variables, i.e., income and prices. Using annual … prices. The analysis indicates, in general, the long run relationship among money, income, and prices. The analysis further … relationship between money and prices, the analysis suggests a unidirectional causality from money to prices implying monetary …

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