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Reading the Recent Monetary History of the United States, 1959-2007

Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F. - 2010

In this paper the authors report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the U.S. economy with both stochastic volatility and parameter drifting in the Taylor rule. They use the results of this estimation to examine the recent monetary...

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Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics

Gonzalez Hernandez, Ramon Antonio - 2008

Research macroeconomists have witnessed remarkable methodological developments in mathematical, statistical, and computational tools during the last two decades. The three essays in this dissertation took advantage of these advances to analyze important macroeconomic issues.The first essay, “...

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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions

Powell, Adam C. - 2011

two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing … data, support was found for the Bounded Rationality hypothesis; firms have less uncertainty about an acquisition … hypothesis; firms whose prior machines perform below aspiration levels seek more uncertainty in their subsequent acquisitions …

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Essays on the Information Acquisition of Doubt-Prone Decision Makers

alaoui, larbi - 2010

There are many situations in which individuals have a choice of whether or not to observe the eventual outcome. In these instances, individuals often prefer to avoid observing the outcome. The standard von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) Expected Utility model cannot accommodate these cases, since it...

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Value of Learning and Acting On Customer Information

Cao, H. Henry; Sun, Bao-Hong - 2007

. Facing uncertainty about customer types, the firm can gradually learn using observed service costs realized from recent …

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Inter-Firm Innovation under Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence for Strategic Knowledge-Partitioning

Lee, Jaegul; Veloso, Francisco - 2006

degree of task uncertainty during inter-firm product development. Using successfully applied patents in automobile emission … knowledge base in component and architectural knowledge increased under higher task uncertainty respectively. This finding …

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Evaluating the Effects of Decoupled Payments under Output and Price Uncertainty

Kotakou, Christina A.; Katranidis, Stelios D. - 2010

face uncertainty about output price and quantity. Using our estimation results we simulate the effects on cotton production …

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Does Duality Theory Hold in Practice? A Monte Carlo Analysis for U.S. Agriculture

Rosas, Francisco; Lence, Sergio H. - 2011

The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...

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Integrating economic values and catchment modelling

Kragt, Marit Ellen; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - 2009

Integrated catchment policies are widely used to manage natural resources in Australian catchments.Decision support tools available to aid integrated catchment management are often limited in theirintegration of environmental processes with socio-economic systems. Fully integrated models...

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Integrating economic values and catchment modelling

Kragt, Marit Ellen; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - 2009

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