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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Information production"”.
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Essays on information production and information use in financial markets
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1998
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Producer Network Effects for Rural Economic Development: An Investigation into the Economic Development Potential of Information Production as a Firm-Level Effect of Broadband Telecommunications in Rural Areas
Broadband telecommunications infrastructure is considered to be an economic development necessity by a significant number of policymakers and economic development professionals, particularly in rural areas. Across the United States, a considerable amount of money is being invested in the deployment …
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Three essays on informed trading
… of the implementation of the EDGAR system on information production by market participants. Modern information technologies have fundamentally changed how information is disseminated in financial markets. Using the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to …
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Three Essays on the Macroeconomics of Information
… a collection of essays on the macroeconomics of information. The first chapter, "The Skill Premium, College Enrollment and Education Signals" explores the quantitative implications of a signaling model of education for the evolution of the skill premium for young workers in the US since the …
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Identification and Characterization of Ecohydrologic Process Networks
… a given state. More Shannon entropy causes more information flow and more emergent self-organized feedback behavior in all systems. Two unifying principles, the Information Production Hypothesis and the Moderate Entropy Hypothesis, are proposed to explain how ecohydrological systems organize …
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Situation recognition using soft computing techniques
… producing and collecting data from a variety of information sources to provide different services to different users via a variety of applications. These include infrastructure management, business process monitoring, crisis management and many other system-monitoring activities. Being processed …
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Synchronisation and Chaos in Coupled FHN Cardiac and Neural Cells
… in the coupled systems may be a means of information production and signaling in neural systems.
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Digital Democracy: A Series of Reflections on Plato, Rousseau and Dewey and the Role that Technology Played in Constraining and Liberating their Imagination
… that have afforded the facilitation of information production, consumption and distribution essential processes of education. Taking advantage of major reform opportunities in educational practice, made possible by an emerging digital information system the current trend in education …
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"Exploring local civic citizenship surrounding the ""¡Huntington Park no se vende!"" campaign on Paseo Boricua in Chicago"
… in community events and in the process of information production and distribution, helping them to learn about important community issues, as well as Puerto Rican history and culture, which had not been taught in local public schools. Such intergenerational and holistic educational …
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Analyzing frequent acquires in emerging markets and futures markets linkage
… by Roll (1986). The second chapter examines the information links across futures markets in different nations, using Vector Autoregressive (VAR)-Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model. The data comprise a large set of commodity and financial futures traded in U.S., U.K., China, Japan, …
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Tiered Market Structures: an Empirical Examination of NASDAQ
… requirements could result in different levels of information production across tiers, and thus different market quality characteristics. While we do find cross-sectional evidence of market quality differences, we do not find evidence of market quality changes when firms change tiers. Within the …
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Essays in Leveraged Capital Markets
… markets for leveraged borrowers are ripe with information asymmetry, lender specialization, and borrower segmentation. In this dissertation, I explore how these factors manifest themselves and the economic consequences thereof. Essay 1 shows that adverse selection and moral hazard concerns are …
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Resource Depository and Knowledge Creation: The role of the National Archives of Zambia, 1935-2006
… acquires, preserves and provides access to information of archival nature for research. The history and development of archival activities in Zambia is illustrated in the context of archival legislative framework. The initial archival legislation formulated in the colonial period facilitated …
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Resource Depository and Knowledge Creation: The role of the National Archives of Zambia, 1935-2006
… acquires, preserves and provides access to information of archival nature for research. The history and development of archival activities in Zambia is illustrated in the context of archival legislative framework. The initial archival legislation formulated in the colonial period facilitated …
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Towards a model of information behaviour of a information provider: a mixed methods study.
Not much is not known about the totality of information behaviours of information providers from among the plethora of library and information science literature. This research aims to describe, categorise and devise a representation of information workers experiences as they engage in information …
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A mixed integer model for optimizing equipment scheduling and overburden transport in a surface coal mining operation
… applications. To provide the necessary input information, production data was obtained from a single seam, mountaintop removal operation located in the Appalachian coalfield. As a means of analyzing the resultant equipment schedule, the total idle time was calculated for each machine type and …
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A Study in Speaker Dependent Medium Vocabulary Word Recognition: Application to Human/Computer Interface
… speed: some experiments reveal that the rate of information input by speech is three times faster than keyboard input and eight times faster than inputting characters by hand. • No training needed: because the generation of speech is a very natural human action, it requires no special training. • …
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Remix and reuse of source code in software production
"The means of producing information and the infrastructure for disseminating it are constantly changing. The web mobilizes information in electronic formats, making it easier to copy, modify, remix, and redistribute. This has changed how information is produced, distributed, and used. People are …
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Collective empowerment through information and communication technologies: co-creation processes in underserved communities in Cape Town
This research investigates the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide opportunities for groups of people to improve their lives and their communities. Further, the study explores innovative methodological approaches which could be conducive for collective …
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ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN CAPITAL MARKET
… consists of three chapters that examine how information production by financial intermediaries impacts on the capital market.My first chapter investigates whether extreme but rare events, i.e., major climatic disasters, influence the productivity of professional financial analysts, whose …
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