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Analysis of the Colby quarterly econometric model of the U.S. economy using the economic effects of September 11th
Culpen, Alison - 2002
The economic repercussions of September 11th are unique in that never before have economists needed to forecast and examine the impact of an event of such magnitude. This paper explains many of the economic effects of September l Ith, from the initial aftermath to recent developments. These...
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Geopressured-geothermal energy development: government incentives and institutional structures
Frederick, D.O.; Prestwood, D.C.L.; Roberts, K.; … - 2007
The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...
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2008 EU-US summit declaration, Brdo, Slovenia, 10 June 2008
Europäische Union / Rat; Council of the European Unon - 2008
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A call to be whole : the fundamentals of health care reform
Sowada, Barbara J. - 2003
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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS
Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010
that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2009
Eso, Peter - 2009
This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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Inspections to Avert Terrorism: Robustness Under Severe Uncertainty
Moffitt, L. Joe; Stranlund, John K.; Field, Barry C. - 2005
Protecting against terrorist attacks requires making decisions in a world in which attack probabilities are largely unknown. The potential for very large losses encourages a conservative perspective, in particular toward decisions that are robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance...
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Three Essays on the Objective Function in Economics.
Goldstein, Daniel A. - 2007
This dissertation consists of three largely independent essays. The first finds a significant correlation between the price of crude oil and significant terrorist attacks by groups of Middle Eastern origin against Western nations. In particular, such terrorist attacks are considerably more...
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