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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

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Solution methodologies for vehicle routing problems with stochastic demand

Goodson, Justin Christopher - 2010

We present solution methodologies for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) with stochastic demand, with a specific focus on the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand (VRPSD) and the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand and duration limits (VRPSDL). The VRPSD and the VRPSDL are...

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Water scarcity and optimal pricing of water

Sağlam, Yiğit - 2010

In the first chapter, I consider the institutional structures as well as the doctrines typically encountered in the surface water sector. To investigate the sources and methods of government support in the water sector, I categorize different sorts of government support according to the location...

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Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories When Customers Negotiate

Ahn, Hyun-Soo - 2010

Although take-it-or-leave-it pricing is the main mode of operation for many retailers, a number of retailers discreetly allow price negotiation when some haggle-prone customers ask for a bargain. At these retailers, the posted price, which itself is subject to dynamic adjustments in response to...

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For sale by owner: When to use a broker and how to price the house

Salant, Stephen W. - 1991

By using a broker, the owner of a house can speed up his search for buyers but must pay a percentage of the sale price as a commission. Nonstationarities inherent in the housing market may make it optimal to market a house “by-owner” at the outset and to retain a broker only if the house...

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MODELLING THE DYNAMICS OF PRODUCTION ADJUSTMENT TO SHORT-TERM MARKET SHOCKS

Niemi, Jarkko K.; Lehtonen, Heikki - 2008

Models of agricultural economics typically operate at an annual basis or in a static equilibriumframework where inputs, outputs and their prices may change considerably. Production dynamics,however, imply that models relying on spatial and temporal aggregation do not capture the effects...

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The value of market uncertainty in a livestock epidemic

Niemi, Jarkko K.; Lehtonen, Heikki - 2008

Introduction of foot and mouth disease (FMD) into country typically initiates eradication procedures which remove animals from the market, and halts the export of livestock products from the infected country. The magnitude of these effects can be highly uncertain. This paper presents a...

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A method for assessing the importance of farm level capital investment decisions in the analysis of water reforms

Letcher, R - 2003

Traditional approaches to estimating the potential benefits of water reform, including the introduction of water markets, have relied on short-run models which assume irrigation capital is either fixed or not a constraint on decision making. Other studies have incorporated a long-run decision...

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Iterative Projection Methods for Structured Sparsity Regularization

Rosasco, Lorenzo; Verri, Alessandro; Santoro, Matteo; … - 2009

class of sparsity based regularization algorithms. More precisely, we study the minimization of learning functionals that … become popular in machine learning since they allow to enforce various kinds of sparsity properties in the solution …. Leveraging on the theory of Fenchel duality and subdifferential calculus, we derive explicit optimality conditions for the …

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Investigation of learning and experience curves

Krawiec, F.; Thornton, J.; Edesess, M. - 2008

learning curve and the traditional cost function of economic theory. …The applicability of learning and experience curves for predicting future costs of solar technologies is assessed, and … systems manufacture are discussed, and procedures for using learning and experience curves to predict costs are outlined …

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