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Individual Risk and Innovative Behavior: A Neo-Schumpeterian Agent-Based Analysis
Wackermann, Florian - 2010
This dissertation focuses on the effects of public intervention on the future-orientation of an economy by implementing an agent-based model designed to provide insight on certain causalities between the public sector and the innovativeness of an economy which can be inferred following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482288
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The declining profitability of litchi orchards in northern Thailand: Can innovations reverse the trend?
Schreinemachers, Pepijn; Potchanasin, Chakrit; Berger, … - 2009
Litchi is an important crop in the mountainous part of northern Thailand yet its profitability has declined during the last 15 years. The replacement of litchi fruit orchards for seasonal flowers and vegetables has external costs related to increased levels of soil erosion, pesticides, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444801
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A Methodology for Capability-Based Technology Evaluation for Systems-of-Systems
Biltgen, Patrick Thomas - 2007
Post-Cold War military conflicts have highlighted the need for a flexible, agile joint force responsive to emerging crises around the globe. The 2005 Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) acquisition policy document mandates a shift away from stove-piped threat-based...
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Computational Methods in Natural Resource Economics: Agent-Based Modeling and Hotelling's Rule
Dixon, David S. - 2011
This dissertation presents a prototype model and methodology for validating a simpleagent-based model against the basic Hotelling monopoly model and a few basic extensions.Hotelling's Rule identi es the expected behavior of a market for a nonrenewable resource.The statement is simple - marginal...
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A Computational Theory of Endogenous Norm Change: The NormSim Agent-Based Model in MASON
Rouleau, Mark D. - 2011
The current study presents the NormSim Agent-Based Model in MASON. NormSimconducts a computational analysis of the International Relations theory of constructivism.NormSim explores the metastable dynamics of norms through the interactions ofheterogeneous agents embedded within a complex social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458907
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Emergent Order, Agent-Based Modeling, and Economic Analysis of Accident Law
Seagren, Chad W. - 2009
The purpose of this project is to examine the benefits of basing economic analysisof accident law on the notion that individuals form a spontaneous order as they respondto the institution of tort law, each other, and their environment. Furthermore, I examinethe efficacy of agent-based modeling...
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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years
Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011
rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438968
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Identifying Asset Poverty Thresholds – New methods with an application to Pakistan and Ethiopia
Naschold, Felix - 2005
is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … growth. Moreover, the dynamic asset equilibria are very low. In Pakistan it is below the average asset holdings of the poor … insufficient for rural households in Pakistan and Ethiopia to escape poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442955
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Remittances and Economic Development in India and Pakistan
Ballard, Roger - 2005
The document contains a chapter of a World Bank report on remittances, its development impact as well as future prospects. It was published in 2005. The articles originated in 2003 during a conference organized by the Department for International Development, IMF, and World Bank, in London.
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The Implementation of Value Transfers in an Era of Financial Volatility: meeting the logistical challenge
Ballard, Roger - 2008
Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468671