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Economic effects of mobile technologies on operations of sales agents

Pichtchoulov, Grigori; Richter, Knut - 2005

In the presented paper we introduce an approach to assess particular economic effects which may arise with bringing mobile technologies into the field of sales and distribution. The research problem posed here comprises quite a special case where sales operations of a company are carried by its...

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The Stochastics of Threshold Accepting: Analysis of an Application to the Uniform Design Problem

Winker, Peter - 2005

Threshold Accepting (TA) is a powerful optimization heuristic from the class of stochastic local search algorithms. It has been applied successfully to different optimization problems in statistics and econometrics, including the uniform design problem. Using the latter application as example,...

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Dynamic Efficiency and Pareto Optimality in a Stochastic OLG Model with Production and Social Security

Barbie, Martin; Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok - 2000

We analyze the interaction between risk sharing and capital accumulation in a stochastic OLG model with production. We give a complete characterization of interim Pareto optimality. Our characterization also subsumes equilibria with a PAYG social security system. In a competitive equilibrium...

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The Virtue of Being Underestimated: A Note on Discriminatory Contracts in Hidden Information Models

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2001

A standard hidden information model is considered to study the influence of the a priori productivity distribution on the optimal contract. A priori more productive (hazard rate dominant) agents work less, enjoy lower rents, but generate a higher expected surplus.

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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection

Vindigni, Andrea - 2008

This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...

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Supply theory sans profit-maximization

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. …

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Non-Bayesian testing of a stochastic prediction

Dekel, Eddie; Feinberg, Yossi - 2005

We propose a method to test a prediction of the distribution of a stochastic process. In a non-Bayesian non-parametric setting, a predicted distribution is tested using a realization of the stochastic process. A test associates a set of realizations for each predicted distribution, on which the...

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The identification and economic content of ordered choice models with stochastic thresholds

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Navarro, Salvador - 2007

This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...

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Numerical solution of boundary value problems for stochastic differential equations on the basis of the Gibbs sampler

Prigarin, Sergej M.; Winkler, Gerhard - 2003

To solve boundary value problems for linear systems of stochastic differential equations we propose and justify a numerical method based on the Gibbs sampler. In contrast to the technique which yields for linear systems an "exact" numerical solution, the proposed method is simpler to generalize...

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Searching for rehabilitation in nonparametric regression models with exogenous treatment assignment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - 2012

This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...

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