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Financial frictions and the wealth distribution
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Hurtado López, Samuel; … - 2020
We postulate a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector and heterogeneous households. In our model, the interaction between the supply of bonds by the financial sector and the precautionary demand for bonds by households produces significant endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an...
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Wealth inequality and household structure : US vs. Spain
Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia - 2008
We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...
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Controlling a distribution of heterogeneous agents
Nuño Barrau, Galo; Moll, Benjamin - 2015
Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...
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Eingesessene Ordnungen und eingesetzte Arbeits/Kräfte
Nöbauer, Herta Maria - 2009
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht aus einer sozialanthropologischen Perspektive die Bedeutung des Körpers an der Universität im Kontext „spätmoderner Unsicherheit“. Zu den markanten Phänomenen der zuletzt genannten zählen neben den Flexibilisierungs- und Fragmentierungsprozessen...
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The effect of financial aid on student persistence in a two-year institution
Kelley, W. Jean - 1999
This study utilized an ex post facto design to examine the relationship between student persistence and receipt of financial aid in the non-traditional student population at a Southwestern Connecticut community-technical college. The sample population size was 739 and consisted of matriculated...
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The effects of standard difficulty and compensation method on the parameters of the industrial learning curve and overall performance of manual assembly and disassembly tasks
Cocco, Anthony F
The industrial learning curve has been widely recognized as an important cost planning tool. Limited empirical work has been done on factors affecting the learning curve parameters, and no study has examined simultaneously the effects of standard difficulty and compensation method. These factors...
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An alternative approach to educational planning based on a conceptual framework of the educational system as dynamic: A theoretical study
Chieuw, Juliet Sue Fun
This dissertation applies dynamic systems theory to conceptualizing an alternative approach to educational planning … differently. The application of dynamic systems theory to educational systems and educational planning suggest a consideration of …This dissertation applies dynamic systems theory to conceptualizing an alternative approach to educational planning …
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Development and validation of a model for evaluating aircrew checklists
Bagdonis, Anthony Stephen
For the past forty years, alternative methods and techniques have been researched and developed in light of reducing the burgeoning knowledge and memory requirements of individual workers. One such method is reliance on print-based job aids designed to reduce the amount of complex information...
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A comparative study of non-native speaker performance on culture-fair and biased topic prompts
Niendorf, Kari Anne
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cultural bias in essay topics on non-native speaker (NNS) undergraduate writing performance. To do this, this study uses the essay subsection of Florida's College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST). Motivation for this study came from:...
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