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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Counter-Factual"”.
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Attribution of the risk of extreme flood events to climate change in the context of changing land use and cover: case study of the shire river basin flood of 2015
… was a combination of a climate scenario-either “factual” or “counter-factual”- and land use and cover change scenario-either factual (historical) or counterfactual (current). The climate scenarios were based on simulated rainfall and temperature from the HadAM3p model run in two modes-the …
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Generating and protecting high fidelity multi-particle entangled states with atom-photon interactions
… for overcoming these, we first describe “counter-factual” carving, a new method that harnesses curious properties of quantum measurements to generate multi-particle entangled states, with potential applications across many quantum information processing systems. With a cavity of …
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Essays in Competition and Investment in Electricity Market
… The magnitude of search costs is large and the counter-factual experiment shows that reduced search cost could reduce both market average price and price dispersion. The second paper uses a dynamic investment model to tackle three critical issues in renewable energy in the electricity industry. …
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A Middleware for Large-scale Simulation Systems & Resource Management
… are necessary to support planning, analysis and counter factual experiments to study these complex systems. Here, we describe SIMFRASTRUCTURE -- a computational infrastructure that supports high performance computing oriented decision and analytics environments to study socially coupled systems. …
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Essays on risk assumption and liquidity management
… around the financial crisis of 2007-2008, and a counter- factual CDS sample around the junk bond crisis of 1990. Taken together, estimates from theses two exercises suggest that CDS makes constrained firms more cautious in their in- vestment decisions when the economic environment is uncertain. …
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Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility of Agricultural Incomes in Scotland
… Farm Payment (SFP) in place, as well as for counter-factual data generated by two hypothetical regional model distributions of the SFP; the latter is particularly informative in the context of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform that will require all Member States to adopt …
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The Influence of Railways on the development of Accrington and District, 1848-1914
The project explores the complex and counter-intuitive historical relationships between railways and development through a local study of Accrington and the surrounding smaller towns and townships in East Lancashire. This distinctive, yet little-researched, district formed a compact and …
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Effects of Exchange Rate Misalignment on Agricultural Producer Support Estimates: Empirical Evidence from India and China
… rate misalignments have either amplified or counteracted the direct effect on agriculture from sectoral-specific policies. With a few commodity exceptions such an indirect effect in both countries is relatively small in magnitude and dominated by the direct effect. This is also the case when …
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Early Childhood Human Capital
… Study-Kindergarten, are used to conduct a counter-factual experiment to find time allocation in targeted and non-targeted skills if this act had not been implemented.
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Essays on Auctions in Financial Markets
… the dynamic auction process and to consider counterfactual changes to a static double auction. The second chapter proposes a computational method to solve for Bayes-Nash equilibria in games. It is applicable when the equilibrium can be characterized by a set of necessary conditions that link …
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Essays on Spatial Inequalities in Income and Education: Econometric Evidence from Pakistan
… district level research in Pakistan, by applying counter factual regression analysis and spatial econometric techniques for the first time to Pakistani data.
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Essays on Empirical Analysis of Continuous-Time Models of Industrial Organization
… I compute the revenue and welfare gains for a counter-factual exercise in which the eBay auction website changes the format of its auctions from second-price to a flexible ending.</p>
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A critical analysis of statutory deeming in the context of the interaction between South Africa's controlled foreign company regime and model-based bilateral tax treaties
… Set in contradiction, the result is plainly counter-factual. The question arises as to what the fiction means when constructed in the context of tax treaties? This minor dissertation draws a comparative analysis between the statutory construction of two opposing international tax treaty …
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Three Essays on Money Input and Time Input in Food Poverty Measurement and Healthy Eating Index
… understanding in food poverty evaluation. The counter-factual analysis on removing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) component from the food expenditure shows that the original metrics underestimate the reduction to food expenditure poverty associated with ARRA, whereas the FGT …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… own assessment of the organ's quality. We use counter-factual analyses to demonstrate that, while herding behaviour is common among UK transplant centres, the resulting increase in discard rates is not substantially higher than that of the full-information benchmark. Equally, it prevents …
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Comparative studies on the currency board regime and its impact on Hong Kong’s economy.
… a flexible exchange rate regime. Furthermore, my counter-factual analysis suggests that a free-floating regime may generate much smaller output variance in Hong Kong and deliver higher output and price levels to Hong Kong. Chapter 3 investigates the currency board regime from 1984 to 2007, by …
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Diversity and Expertise in Representative Governance
… liquid democracy with direct democracy, the counter-factual. It validates the theoretical findings of the second chapter, providing evidence that delegation mechanisms align with theoretical expectations. The fourth chapter analyzes delegation dynamics in a real-world setting and explores how …
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The British Energy Market Reform: Carbon Prices, Retail Tariffs, and Cost Pass-through
… model of the GB system in 2015. We examine counter-factual fuel and carbon price scenarios. The CPS lowered the SR-MDF by 7% in 2015 but raised the LR-MDF (for a 25% increase in wind capacity) by 18%. We discuss reasons for the modest differences in the SR- and LR-MDFs. Being a unilateral …