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Bertrand Russell's Early Philosophy of Language
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Essays on pricing and learning in Bertrand markets.
… sellers’ pricing and learning behaviour in Bertrand oligopoly markets using a bounded rational approach. It consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 develops a quantal response adaptive learning model which combines sellers’ bounded rationality with adaptive belief learning in order to explain …
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Price of anarchy in a Bertrand oligopoly market
… this thesis, we study the price of anarchy in a Bertrand oligopoly market by comparing the total profits in the two settings. The main contribution of this thesis is a lower and an upper bound for the price of anarchy that only depends on the price sensitivity matrix characterizing the demand …
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From Logical Atoms to Language Networks: An Examination of Part of Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism
… I present a critical interpretation of part of Bertrand Russell's 1918 philosophy of logical atomism, and a critical assessment of his contentions that language mirrors the world and that some English sentences share some of the logical properties of sentences of Principia Mathematica.
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Demand Estimation with Differentiated Products: An Application to Price Competition in the U.S. Brewing Industry
… for model assessment. Results indicate that Bertrand-Nash predicts the pricing behavior of firms more closely than other models, although Stackelberg leadership yields results that are not substanitally different from the Bertrand-Nash model. Nevertheless, Bertrand-Nash tends to under-predict …
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ΑΛΓΟΡΙΘΜΟΙ ΠΑΡΕΜΒΟΛΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΜΗΧΑΝΟΥΡΓΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΤΕΡΓΑΣΙΕΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΗΣ ΑΚΡΙΒΕΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΥΠΛΟΚΗΣ ΓΕΩΜΕΤΡΙΑΣ
… A METHOD BASED ON THE PROPERTIES OF BERTRAND CURVES, IS PROPOSED FOR GENERATING TOOL CENTRE PATHS WITH AN ACCURACY EQUAL TO THE RESOLUTION OF THE MACHINE TOOL. IT IS SHOWN THAT FOR CUBIC SPLINES OF BICUBIC PATCHES, ACCURATE TOOL MOTION CAN BE GENERATED BY A FAST DDA-LIKE (DIGITAL …
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Financial reporting quality and the quiet Life by Mihir N. Mehta.
Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003) find that managers shielded from the threat of takeovers exert less effort to maximize firm value, consistent with a 'quiet life' hypothesis. I study whether the governance role of financial reporting can mitigate adverse effects arising from managerial preferences …
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Nash equilibrium problems in power markets and product design: Analysis and algorithms
… of equilibria in noncooperative Cournot and Bertrand games. The application of focus for Cournot competition is power markets while that for Bertrand competition is product design. We consider Cournot-based models for strategic behavior in power markets while Bertrandbased models are employed …
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Existence of God: An Examination of the Cosmological Arguments as Proof of the Existence of God
… by both theistic and scientific reasoning. Bertrand Russell and David Hume are critical of the cosmological arguments, however, the cosmological arguments of Thomas Aquinas and Bruce Reichenbach are able to overcome the objections presented by Russell and Hume.
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Vertical integration and sabotage : evidence and regulation
… market structures, differentiated goods Bertrand duopoly and the dominant firm competitive fringe model. We find that concerns for sabotage are real as it does occur in these regulated industries. We also find that the regulator faces a trade-off between reducing the double markup problem …
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Analysis of the United States pediatric immunization market: A game theoretic approach
… presence of several market factors. Next, Bertrand-Edgeworth-Chamberlin price game is used to examine the prices of the monovalent vaccines in the United States pediatric vaccine market. The proposed game captures oligopolistic interactions between symmetric, capacity-constrained …
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State pension and labour market dynamics in South Africa
… of labour supply to pension income found in Bertrand, Mullainathan and Miller (2003) is much reduced, although the employment probability elasticity has increased in size. Eligible households are characterised by larger household size, higher unemployment levels, lower numbers of prime age …
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Aplicando Design by Contract em web services RESTful
… uma técnica de programação concebida em 1992 por Bertrand Meyer afim de aumentar a segurança e robustez de softwares através da utilização de contratos. Como o estilo REST não possui especificação de contratos ou validação, na presente pesquisa foi efetuada a aplicação de Design by Contract em Web …
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A study of the causes of the real net-of-tax cigarette price increases in South Africa (1990-2012)
… the cigarette industry through tariffs. Using a Bertrand duopolistic model this paper presents a theoretical model to explain the effect that tariffs, and other relevant causal factors such as excise taxation might have on the real net-of-tax price. The relationships that exist between the real …
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Essays on the economics of law, crime and discrimination
… per year. Chapter two, coauthored with Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan, is a study of the impact of defendant race on interjudge sentencing disparity, which seeks to add to the knowledge of the role of race in the courtroom.
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Panpsychism And Mind-Dust
… ways similar to the epistemic neutral monism of Bertrand Russell, but is also a novel version of panpsychism. The suggestion is simply this: it might be the case that we should think of the world as inherently and ontologically qualitative in nature. I call this resultant position panqualiaism …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
… aftermath of a coup that ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide. In this thesis, I investigate how the leaders of MINUSTAH discursively constructed legitimation and a Latin-American identity in the context of the mission. To analyse these processes, I develop a comprehensive analytical …
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L’implicazione in C.I. Lewis. La nascita dell’implicazione stretta dagli scritti giovanili alla Symbolic Logic
… debates about material implication which shows Bertrand Russell and Hugh MacColl as leading actors. Subsequently an analysis of the early writings of Lewis has been performed. This period started with Implication and the Algebra of Logic, published in 1912, and ended in 1918 with Survey of …
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Dynamic pricing with demand learning under competition
… product, where firms compete by setting prices (Bertrand competition) or by allocating quantities (Cournot competition) dynamically over a finite selling horizon. The price-demand relationship is modeled as a parametric function, whose parameters are unknown, but learned through a data driven …
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