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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Economic Networks"”.
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Topics in Dynamic programming and Economic Networks
… It is the most fundamental tool for modern economics, addressing topics that include economic growth, optimal saving, asset pricing, business cycles, and fiscal and monetary policies. Complementing this, economic networks stand as another critical tool, recognising the dynamic interactions …
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Topics in Dynamic programming and Economic Networks
… It is the most fundamental tool for modern economics, addressing topics that include economic growth, optimal saving, asset pricing, business cycles, and fiscal and monetary policies. Complementing this, economic networks stand as another critical tool, recognising the dynamic interactions …
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Hypergraph Distributed Optimization & Decentralized Control with Applications in Economic Networks and Graphical Games
… on the subjects of applied mathematics and economics. More specifically, our applied mathematics results focus on the use of hypergraphs instead of their graph analogue, the clique expansion graphs in the settings of distributed optimization and decentralized control. In both settings we …
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Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy
… addresses issues on the frontier of development economics research. Each essay is presented as a self-contained chapter and follows a format typically encountered in journal articles. The initial pair of chapters delve into the economic ramifications of mobile money. My first chapter investigates …
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Cape Mongo
… of social commentary on the current spatial, economic and political conditions of the city by exploring the variety of possible contexts and urban spaces that these discarded objects may have inhabited during their life cycles. This process has also involved a great deal of reflection on my …
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Crisis and Prosperity: Status, Accountability and Time in Central Greece
… with how people negotiate periods of socio-economic crisis and prosperity in the town of Trikala, Thessaly, central Greece. Localised understandings of the global economic crisis are analysed in relation to history, social status and concepts of time. The complex interaction between people …
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El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion
… party over the Metro and the international economic networks that made the Metro possible. I also examine the story of famous Mexican artist Rina Lazo. She participated in the planning of Insurgentes Metro but was never given credit.</p>
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Understanding resilience in large networks
… analysis of robustness in large interconnected networks. Many real life systems in transportation, economics, finance and social sciences can be represented as networks. The individual constituents, or nodes, of the network may represent vehicles in the case of vehicular platoons, production …
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Strategic Stochastic Coordination and Learning In Regular Network Games
… multi-agent systems, such as robotic, social and economic networks, allowing the execution of tasks that would be impossible by individual agents. This thesis addresses two problems in stochastic coordination where each agent make decisions strategically, taking into account the decisions of its …
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Set in Stone? A Landscape and Material Approach to Provincial Power in the Khmer Empire
… empires continues to shape today’s geopolitical, economic, and cultural landscapes. Studying empires not only deepens our understanding of persistent structures of power but also expands how we imagine political organization in the present and future. Yet traditional scholarship on past empires …
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A caravan of hope-gay Christian service: Exploring social vulnerability and capacity-building of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identified individuals and organizational advocacy in two post Katrina disaster environments
… must rely on systems outside of their social and economic networks to recover. Safety is a major concern for lgbti in disaster environments, especially for those who feel they cannot pass as heterosexual. Among lgbti, elderly, racial minorities, young and homeless, were most likely to be without …
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Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus
… that are integrated within the socio-economic networks of these contexts in a bid to shift from defective central infrastructures to social infrastructures that transform the blighted Lagos contexts in a manner that builds resilience at a local level. By using Makoko as a site for …
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Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
… European geographic imagination as well as the economic networks and channels of global circulation during the era of mercantile capitalism. This process saw the island framed as a Romantic English rural idyll displaced into the South Atlantic, and resulted in a metonymic linkage being created …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining: women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
… and enables women to access social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization of motherhood in these communities has informed the powerful stigmatization of infertility ( or the involuntary nonconformance to motherhood). The stigma …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining : women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
… and enables women to access social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization of motherhood in these communities has informed the powerful stigmatization of infertility (or the involuntary nonconformance to motherhood). The stigma associated …
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Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island
… lifeways during rapidly changing social, economic, and political conditions. In particular, the archaeological collections from two homes at Indian Fields, a Montaukett habitation site, provide an intra-site, diachronic comparison against a complex economic, social, and cultural backdrop …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… of three essays exploring topics in microeconomic theory: conflict, alliances, and the origins of society; supply chain networks and industrial organisation; and game theory on economic networks. Chapter 1 Anthropological evidence has shown that humans in the earliest agricultural …
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The role of social capital on the sustainability of MSMEs based in the City of Johannesburg, South Africa
… namely; social capital in particular socio-economic networks on MSME performance, social capital as an enabler of effective institutional support mechanism, impact of beneficial social capital on financial sustainability of MSMEs, and sustainability of livelihood strategies adopted by MSMEs. …
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The political economy of rural-urban conflict : lessons from West Africa & India
… and Peace & Conflict Studies to examine how economic networks spanning the rural-urban divide condition conflict dynamics between an urban-based state and its rural-based challengers. In some cases of such violent internal conflict, the combat frontier is messy and erratic, as insurgents …
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