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Immigration, unemployment and human-capital acquisition

Lumpe, Christian - 2008

The following dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone research papers. The focus of my research is on the interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of natives and necessary implications for the immigration...

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The two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

Lopes, R H C; Reid, I; Hobson, P R - 2007

computes inO(n2); Cooke’s test that computes in O(n2).We prove that Cooke’s algorithm runs in O(n2), contrary to his claims …

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Bandwidth Selection for Local Linear Quantile Regression with Applications to Financial Market Data

Attar, Hoda E. El- - 2008

distribution. We generalize the iterative Plug-in algorithm for local linear quantile regression with double kernel smoothing in … section (4.5). In section (4.6), we present an iterative-Plug-in algorithm for the local linear quantile regression. In … section (4.7), we discuss the consistency and the asymptotic normality of the plug-in algorithm. In chapter 5, we apply the …

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System-dynamics-based modeling of business simulation algorithms

Gold, Steven - 2005

Research on the internal algorithms used to model business simulations have focused on individual components of the business system. Yet the business environment is complex in nature, characterized by interdependencies and nonlinear relationships that require a systems approach if effective game...

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The Role of Information Technology in the Airport Business: A Retail-Weighted Resource Management Approach for Capacity-Constrained Airports

Klann, Dirk - 2009

tested in different scenarios. For this purpose anadequate gate allocation algorithm has been developed and implemented in a …

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Modelling South African currency crises as structural changes in the volatility of the rand

Duncan A.S.; Liu G.D. - 2009

periods with a high degree of precision. We use the iterative cumulative sum of squares algorithm to detect multiple shifts in …

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A variable initialization approach to the EM algorithm for better estimation of the parameters of hidden Markov Model based acoustic modeling of speech signals

Huda, Shamsul; Ghosh, Ranadhir; Yearwood, John - 2006

uses the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. The EM algorithm is sensitive to initial values of HMM parameters and is …

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Artificial intelligence in financial services

Fernández Bedoya, Ana

Artículo de revista ; The use of artificial intelligence tools has escalated recently in all sectors of the economy owing, among other factors, to the growing volume of digital data and higher computational capacity. Major benefits may be reaped from applying these tools to the provision of...

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Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space

Wardell, Clarence L. - 2009

At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of...

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For sale by owner: When to use a broker and how to price the house

Salant, Stephen W. - 1991

By using a broker, the owner of a house can speed up his search for buyers but must pay a percentage of the sale price as a commission. Nonstationarities inherent in the housing market may make it optimal to market a house “by-owner” at the outset and to retain a broker only if the house...

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