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In this paper we examine determinants of initial adoption and subsequent intensification of corporate use of business …
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Living through hunger and physical hardship from infancy to premature old age; living through economic shifts that close factories and strip currency of its value in an instant; living through social turmoil, political upheaval, and war; through it all, poor men and women in communities around...
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income insecurity to the proliferation of informal enterprise through job insecurity in selected SSA countries. The study …, Kenya and the DRC. The analyses suggested that income insecurity exist in the form of significant seasonal variations in … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job …
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conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity …
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CAI to their learning were more likely to be computer users and spend more time on task. The impact of CAI on student …
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I analyze a model with heterogeneous investors who have incorrect beliefs about fundamentals. Investors think that they are right at first, but over time realize that they are wrong. The speed of the realization depends on investor confidence in own beliefs and arrival of new information. The...
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Exploration is a costly activity that helps a business improve their understanding of a potential mineral deposit. Yet, even with strong exploration results, the business faces uncertainty over the value of the mine. I model this situation as a game of chance. The game starts by giving an agent...
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Using data from a randomized experiment in rural China, this paper studies the influence of social networks on weather insurance adoption and the mechanisms through which social networks operate. To quantify network effects, the experiment offers intensive information sessions about the...
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different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning based on level-k reasoning. We find …
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Cycle models. To our knowledge this thesis is the first attempt to formally introduce adaptive learning and expectation … various econometric adaptive learning tools: Auto ARIMA, VAR and AR(2) models. In all simulations, output and other economic … obtained in simulations with Auto ARIMA models, while the VAR learning tool leads to diverging fluctuations in the majority of …
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