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Weippert, Achim; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2004

participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …

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A comparative analysis of three macro price forecasting models

Akintoye, Akintola S.; Skitmore, Martin - 1994

This paper examines the relative performance of three different systems of forecasting movements in macro building prices. The three systems analysed are (1) the Building Cost Information Service system, (2) the Davis, Langdon & Everest system, and (3) Akintoye and Skitmore's reduced-form...

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Using risk analysis to prioritise intelligent transport systems: a variable message sign case study on the Gold Coast

Marschke, Kath; Ferreira, Luis; Bunker, Jonathan M. - 2006

With perpetual strains on resources, road agencies need to develop network-level decision-making frameworks to ensure optimum resource allocation. This is especially true for intelligent transport systems (ITS), and in particular, variable message signs (VMS), a key component of incident...

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The analysis of pre-tender building price forecasting performance: A case study

Drew, Derek S.; Skitmore, Martin - 2003

The financial management of the construction procurement process is dependent upon on the performance of the managers involved. This paper describes an analysis of pre-tender building price forecasts (estimates) made by a Hong Kong consulting organisation for a series of 89 building projects...

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Bidding models: testing the stationarity assumption

Skitmore, Martin; Runeson, Goran - 2006

With notably few exceptions, bidding models contain probability distributions with parameters that are assumed to be fixed, or stationary, over time. Some methods of method of testing the tenability of this assumption are examined and applied to eight datasets. Of particular interest is the...

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A Lifetime Portfolio of Risky and Risk-Free Sexual Behaviour and the Prevalence of AIDS

Levy, A. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2000

A lifetime portfolio of risky and risk-free sexual activities is conceptually constructed in this paper. People's time allocation between risky and risk-free sexual activities affects, and is affected by, the prevalence of AIDS. A small satisfaction differential between risky sex and risk-free...

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From Hotelling to Backstop Technology.

Levy, A. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2000

Hotelling's conceptual framework is expanded to incorporate the effects of a backstop technology on the planning …-trivial case, the presence of a backstop technology shortens the planning horizon of the suppliers of the exhaustible resource in … accordance with the resource suppliers' rate of time preference, backstop technology's rate of irnprovement and ratio of the …

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Quandaries in the Economics of Dual Technologies and Spillovers from Military to Civilian Research and Development.

Cowan, R.; Foray, D. - University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics - 1995

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Ongoing Relations, Money and Credit

Schulz, E - Economics Department, Williams College - 1996

A model which explains, at a primitive level, the coexistence of money and credit, even though buyers prefer credit, an which allows the study of the interaction of money and credit is introduced. This is done in a setting with ongoing relations between sellers and untrustworthy buyers in which...

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Developing Countries Export Growth Technology and Labour Markets in Developed Countries: General Equilibrium Perspectives.

Tyers, R.; Duncan, R. - Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College … - 1996

This paper briefly summarizes the state and the debate and describes the results of a recent study of the links between trade, technical change and labour market behavior.

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