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New Perspectives on Games and Interaction

van Rooij, Robert (contributor); … - 2008

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. The purpose of the colloquium was to clarify the uses of the concepts of game theory, and to identify promising new directions....

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Decomposing international gender test score differences

Munir, Farzana; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018

In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted … towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys. Girls' disadvantage in mathematics is increasing over the …

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State Graduation Requirements, High School Course Taking, and Choosing a Technical College Major

Federman, Maya - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

Abstract I examine the changing patterns of enrollment of females and males in mathematics and science courses in high …. Higher graduation requirements in mathematics and science are associated with increased course taking and the magnitude is … the number of high school mathematics courses taken has a positive effect on the probability that a student chooses a …

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Modeling the United States Unemployment Rate with the Preisach Model of Hysteresis

Hutton, Richard Shane - 2009

A system with hysteresis is one that exhibits path dependent but rate independent memory. Hysteresis can be observed physically through the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material. In order to mathematically describe systems with hysteresis, we use the Preisach model. A discussion of the...

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Performance evaluation of judgemental directional exchange rate predictions

Pollock, Andrew C.; Macaulay, Alex; Thomson, Mary E.; … - 2005

A procedure is proposed for examining different aspects of performance for judgemental directional probability predictions of exchange rate movements. In particular, a range of new predictive performance measures is identified to highlight specific expressions of strengths and weaknesses in...

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The influence of the forecast horizon on judgemental probability forecasts of exchange rate movements

Thomson, Mary E.; Pollock, Andrew C.; Henriksen, Karen B.; … - 2004

An experiment is reported which compares directional forecasting performance of experts, novices and simple statistical models over three time horizons on a task involving probabilistic forecasts of exchange rate movements. Probability-judgement accuracy analyses illustrated no clear overall...

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Feedback-labelling synergies in judgmental stock price forecasting

Goodwin, Paul; Önkal-Atay, Dilek; Thomson, Mary E.; … - 2004

Research has suggested that outcome feedback is less effective than other forms of feedback in promoting learning by users of decision support systems. However, if circumstances can be identified where the effectiveness of outcome feedback can be improved, this offers considerable advantages,...

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Technology trends in econometric energy models: Ignorance or information

Boyd, G.; Kokkelenberg, E.; Ross, M. - 2008

Simple time trend variables in factor demand models can be statistically powerful variables, but may tell the researcher very little. Even more complex specification of technical change, e.g. factor biased, are still the economentrician's measure of ignorance'' about the shifts that occur in the...

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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Minimum risk trigger indices

Tingey, F.H. - 2008

A viable safeguards system includes among other things the development and use of indices which trigger various courses of action. The usual limit of error calculation provides such an index. The classical approach is one of constructing tests which, under certain assumptions, make the...

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