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Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning

Gokhale, Jagadeesh - 2010

insurance recommendations provided by economic financial planning software and the practical application of traditional … financial planning software. The two software programs are Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner), developed by Economic Security … stylized and 4 of which are actual households. The two software programs recommend dramatically different levels of saving or …

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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George - 2016

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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Non-Linear Real Arithmetic Benchmarks Derived from Automated Reasoning in Economics

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2018

We consider problems originating in economics that may be solved automatically using mathematical software. We present …

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A Practical Guide to Parallelization in Economics

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2018

This guide provides a practical introduction to parallel computing in economics. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas of parallelization, we show how to parallelize a prototypical application in economics using, on CPUs, Julia, Matlab, R, Python, C++-OpenMP, Rcpp–OpenMP, and C++-MPI,...

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Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimation with Stata

Chernozhukov, Victor - 2018

Many applications involve a censored dependent variable and an endogenous independent variable. Chernozhukov, Fernandez-Val, and Kowalski (2015) introduced a censored quantile instrumental variable estimator (CQIV) for use in those applications, which has been applied by Kowalski (2016), among...

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Economic Perspectives on Software Design : Pc Operating Systems and Platforms

Davis, Steven J.; Murphy, Kevin M.; MacCrisken, Jack - 2021

Improvements in the software that provides hardware management, user interface and platform functions have played a … components of PC systems so as to keep pace with rapid advances in computer technologies the development of applications software … responsibility for making the interacting components of the PC work together. D. The desire to bundle multiple software features into …

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Get with the Program : Software-Driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing

Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej; Kwon, Namho - 2021

This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well … firms in the software intensity of their innovative activity. Firms that exhibit a higher level of software intensity … that geographic differences in the abundance of skilled software labor are an important factor in determining sample firms …

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Publicationharvester : An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

Azoulay, Pierre; Stellman, Andrew; Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2021

We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life … scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each …/editorials, etc.) The software also generates a keywords report at the scientist-year level, using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH …

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The Simple Economics of Open Source

Tirole, Jean; Lerner, Josh - 2021

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

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Price Indexes for Microsoft'S Personal Computer Software Products

Abel, Jaison R.; Berndt, Ernst R.; White, Alan G. - 2021

software products during the time period July 1993 through June 2001. This paper contributes to a relatively small literature … on price measurement of pre-packaged software by incorporating important channels of distribution, such as volume …

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