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Turiel, I.; McMahon, J.E.; Lebot, B. - 2008

In most countries, residential electricity consumption typically ranges from 20% to 40% of total electricity consumption. This energy is used for heating, cooling, refrigeration and other end-uses. Significant energy savings are possible if new appliance purchases are for models with higher...

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Scientific analysis is essential to assess biofuel policy effects: in response to the paper by Kim and Dale on "Indirect land use change for biofuels: Testing predictions and impro...

Kline, Keith L; Oladosu, Gbadebo A; Dale, Virginia H; … - 2011

Vigorous debate on the effects of biofuels derives largely from the changes in land use estimated using economic models designed mainly for the analysis of agricultural trade and markets. The models referenced for land-use change (LUC) analysis in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Final...

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Domain Specialisation and Applications of Model-Based Testing

Pari-Salas, Percy Antonio - 2010

Software testing, one of the most important methods for quality assurance, has become too expensive and error prone for … complex modern software systems. Test automation aims to reduce the costs of software testing and to improve its reliability …. Despite advances in test automation, there are some domains for which automation seems to be difficult, for example, testing …

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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 2005

We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...

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The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing, recovery and welfare analysis

Cherchye, Laurens; De Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2007

nonparametric testing tools for data consistency with special cases of the collective model, which impose specific structure on the … preferences of the group members (in terms of consumption externalities and public consumption); and we show that these testing … income shares that underlie observed (collectively rational) group behavior. In addition, we present formally similar testing …

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Forecast Evaluation of Small Nested Model Sets

Hubrich, Kirstin; West, Kenneth - 2010

We propose two new procedures for comparing the mean squared prediction error (MSPE) of a benchmark model to the MSPEs of a small set of alternative models that nest the benchmark. Our procedures compare the benchmark to all the alternative models simultaneously rather than sequentially, and do...

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James Joseph; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzúa, Sergio - 2009

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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A novel test for the presence of local explosive dynamics

Blasques, Francisco; Koopman, Siem Jan; Mingoli, Gabriele; … - 2024

In economics and finance, speculative bubbles take the form of locally explosive dynamics that eventually collapse. We propose a test for the presence of speculative bubbles in the context of mixed causal-noncausal autoregressive processes. The test exploits the fact that bubbles are...

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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics: An economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023

economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing … underscore the importance of testing, showing its impact on reduced deaths, lower economic costs and laxer lockdown. We use the …

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Nonparametric Estimation and Testing of Interaction in Generalized Additive Models

Li, Bo - 2011

the estimators is derived for the univariate component functions and interaction functions. A test statistic for testing …. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to examine the finite sample performance of the estimation and testing procedures. We …

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