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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty

Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010

Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...

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Corruption and Pro-Poor Growth Outcomes: Evidence and Lessons for African Countries

Ndikumana, Léonce - 2006

There is growing consensus on the view that corruption hurts economic performance by reducing private investment, by adversely affecting the quantity and quality of public infrastructure, by reducing tax revenue, and by reducing human capital accumulation. In addition to inefficiency effects –...

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Impact of the allowance allocation on prices and efficiency

Neuhoff, Karsten; Grubb, Michael; Keats, Kim - 2005

Successful cap and trade programs for SO2 and NOx in the US allocate allowances to large emitters based on a historic base line for a period of up to thirty years. National Allocation Plans in Europe allocate CO2 allowances in an iterative approach first for a three then for a five-year period....

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Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions and Enrollment in the College Market

Fu, Chao - 2010

equilibrium. I estimate the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY 97 data, via a three-step estimation procedure to …

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Should Music Labels Pay for Radio Airplay? Investigating the Relationship Between Album Sales and Radio Airplay

Montgomery, Alan L.; Moe, Wendy W. - 2002

Managers in the music industry closely monitor both radio airplay of an album as well as the album's sales. Their interest in radio airplay is due to the belief that airplay can increase an album’s sales. Therefore it is natural for managers to attempt to influence radio airplay so as to...

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Statistical Methods for Nonlinear Dynamic Models with Measurement Error Using the Ricker Model

Resendes, David Joseph - 2011

In ecological population management, years of animal counts are fit to nonlinear, dynamic models (e.g. the Ricker model) because the values of the parameters are of interest. The yearly counts are subject to measurement error, which inevitably leads to biased estimates and adversely affects...

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Estimation of Sector Sales and Employment Changes Associated with Solar Space and Water Heating Development

Petersen, H. Craig - 1979

There is little available information on sector-specific sales and employment impacts of a large-scale solar space and water heating industry. This study identifies those sectors of the economy which would be most affected by increased solar utilization and estimates the magnitude of the...

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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Musalem, Andres - 2010

simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial …

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Essays on Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.

Iskrev, Nikolay Ivanov - 2008

The estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models is the subject of a rapidly growing literature … reduced-form model. I show that both terms can be derived analytically. This result is useful for the estimation of DSGE …

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Accounting for Estimation Optimality Criteria in Simulated Annealing

Goovaerts, Pierre - 1998

This paper presents both estimation and simulation as optimization problems that differ in the optimization criteria …, minimization of a local expected loss for estimation and reproduction of global statistics (semivariogram, histogram) for … simulation ignoring local constraints, but not as accurate as E-type estimation. Flow simulation results show that accounting for …

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