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Essays on technological change and innovation games

Mansouri, Faysal - 1992

The objectives of this dissertation is to provide a theory of innovation and technological change incorporating the … technological externalities, in a Cournot Nash game theoretic framework. Process innovation theory has focused predominantly on … homogenous. Findings support the theory that both the noncooperative and the cooperative solution do not yield the socially …

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Mathematical models of skin permeability: An overview

Mitragotri, Samir; Anissimov, Yuri G.; Bunge, Annette L.; … - 2011

Mathematical models of skin permeability play an important role in various ?elds including prediction of transdermal drug delivery and assessment of dermal exposure to industrial chemicals. Extensive research has been performed over the last several decades to yield predictions of skin...

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Reputation Enhancing Goals: Integrating Reputation Enhancement and Goal Setting Theory as an Explanation of Delinquent Involvement

Carroll, Annemaree; Houghton, Stephen; Hattie, John; … - 2001

reputation enhancement theory and goal setting theory. An overview of the theories of reputation enhancement and goal setting is …

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THE EFFECTS OF LOSS AVERSION ON TRADE POLICY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

Tovar Rodriguez, Patricia - 2005

We study the implications of loss aversion for trade policy determination and show how it allows us to explain a number of important and puzzling features of trade policy. An important question concerning trade policy is why a disproportionate share of protection goes to declining industries. We...

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Matching Issues: An auction with externalities and unraveling matching markets

Ranger, Martin - 2005

This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions for multiple units where bidders exhibitexternalities. The third chapter links risk aversion and information to unraveling inlabor markets.Auctions can lead to efficient...

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Essays on Job Flows Dynamics

Bastos, Fabiano Rodrigues - 2005

Gross job flows dynamics, defined as the behavior of creation and destruction of jobs at the establishment level, has become a topic of great interest in economics during recent years and researchers have resorted to different empirical methodologies in order to tease out its causes and...

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Labor reallocation, Productivity and Output Volatility in Japan

Griffin, Naomi Nakaguchi - 2005

The dissertation offers an analysis of the labor reallocation process in Japan and sheds light on its relationship with productivity and output volatility during the 1990s, the period of sluggish growth. The first chapter provides descriptive statistics of job reallocation rates among relatively...

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Models of Supply Function Equilibrium with Applications to the Electricity Industry

Aromi, Jose Daniel - 2007

Electricity market design requires tools that result in a better understanding of incentives of generators and consumers. Chapter 1 and 2 provide tools and applications of these tools to analyze incentive problems in electricity markets.In chapter 1, models of supply function equilibrium (SFE)...

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Competing or Collaborating Siblings? An Investigation of the Relationship between Industrial and Trade Policies

Sharma, Gunjan - 2006

This dissertation investigates the relationship between industrial and trade policies and their impact on firm-level incentives to become more productive. In Chapter two we use a two-sector growth model and show that the impact of a rise in competition in the intermediate goods sector (that...

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Assessment of Productive Efficiency of Airports

Pathomsiri, Somchai - 2006

The move towards commercialization and privatization has pressured airports to become more productive and competitive. The need to devise an overall (total) productivity measure is increasingly important in airport business. The dissertation made three major research contributions. First, it...

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