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laboratory, information about health effects leads to a statistically significant decrease (increase) in the willingness to pay …-unit subsidy on sardines without any information revealed to consumers lead to the highest welfare, because both the tax and … subsidy directly internalize health characteristics. The information policy combined with a per-unit tax on tuna and a per …
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Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
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call tenders, cap and trade and command and control regulation) as mechanisms for promoting riparian management and …
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The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...
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affect the information structure of an organization and thus the way to coordinate changes. Compared to the U-form, the M … "attribute compatibility." The M-form has a distinctive advantage in carrying out experimentation which gives the organization …
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by testing andwhat testing techniques are better at detecting certain kinds ofdefects. This information can help …
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It has recently been aptly emphasized that how models are used is essential to what scientific models are. But the explanations of why and how a model is used or why a model is scientifically valuable are still merely in terms of the relation between the model and its target, just as they were...
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In this paper, I would like to show that considering technological models as they arise in engineering disciplines can greatly enrich the philosophical perspective on models. In fluid mechanics, (at least) three types of models are distinguished: mathematical, computer and physical models. Very...
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to collect, process, and share information about their own status and about their environment, has attained a high degree … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of … gain relevance. The comprehensiveness of collected pieces of information which can be stored arbitrarily long and …
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. This work presents one of the first studies of algorithmic trading and its impact on information and liquidity in equity …
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