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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Inter-temporal"”.
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Inter-temporal Effect of Technological Capabilities on Firm Performance: a Longitudinal Study of the U.s. Computed Tomography Industry (1972-2002)
In this dissertation, I investigate how capabilities drive firm performance as an industry evolves. I show that in spite of significant research on firm capabilities, we do not understand whether technological capabilities continue to drive firm performance as an industry evolves or whether they …
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The role of jus cogens in resolving the intertemporal problem in Mau Mau torture claims and other historical injustices: a theoretical exploration
… in the resolution of historical injustices in international law is the inter-temporal question, summarized as the requirement that positive substantive international law, as it stood at the time in which an injustice occurred, ought always to apply over latter laws. Jus cogens, being largely …
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Essays on Sovereign Default
… about repayment. Through reserve accumulation, inter-temporal consumption smoothing improves and the government eliminates post-auction uncertainty at low costs. Our analysis helps to explain why governments hold large amounts of reserves without reducing them substantially in economic downturns …
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'Ex-ante' asset allocation strategies for global index portfolios
… lies in empirically assessing the extent of inter~temporal instability in the inputs to theglobal portfolio optimization problem and in developing appropriate multivariate estimation procedures that aim to assist investors in achieving superior out of sample portfolio performance. The …
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Linkages Between Tenure, Risk, and Time Attitudes: Effects on Farm Business Decisions
… decisions can be jointly optimized. In this inter-temporal stochastic setting, the degree of risk aversion and changing time attitudes play important roles in decision making. But risk aversion has stronger effects than do time attitudes. Share leasing also is confirmed as an important …
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Long Term Policy Goals Under Electoral Competition Given Varied Temporal Discount Rates Among Voters
Many important issues facing the world involve temporal tradeoffs, requiring costly investment in the short term for payoffs that accrue much later. However, politicians facing frequent elections are held accountable to voter preferences, where voters tend to be myopic, making investment difficult. …
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Essays on electricity and matching markets
… energy storage to smooth the variability and intermittency of renewable energy. I investigate whether private incentives for operating and investing in grid-scale energy storage are optimal and the need for policies that complement investments in renewables with encouraging energy storage. In …
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The Arc Models.
… of the primary pedagogical models of international trade theory. By characterizing economies according to their manufacturing, service, and agricultural/natural resource sectors, the Arc Models present a novel approach to teaching trade theory by either focusing in on a single economy …
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Measuring the Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Operations: Environmental and Dynamic Considerations
… measurement framework that ignores the inter-temporal effects of inputs and managerial decisions in future streams of outputs (i.e., future road conditions) is likely to be inaccurate. This research discusses the importance of developing a dynamic performance measurement framework that …
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Control of intertemporal choice by dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons
… have been long implicated in the control of temporal discounting of reward [3] [4], but it is not clear whether their activities in fact direct the decision making process. In this thesis, I designed a cued intertemporal choice task for mice that allows the combination of highly specific …
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Sonic Hypermirror: Attuning to Hyperobjects
… radically different experiences for people. The inter-scalar, inter-temporal representations gained dire urgency due to the crises surfacing simultaneously at a global scale. Hyperobject, as defined by ecological philosopher Timothy Mor- ton, is the in-experienceable object that is vastly …
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The FII Model as an Investment in Patience: Exploring Time Preferences in Medellin, Colombia
… useful when discussing poverty alleviation, as inter-temporal choices affect a range of behaviors such as saving, borrowing, and various types of investment, all of which affect economic well-being.</p>
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Energy Management System Modeling of DC Data Center with Hybrid Energy Sources Using Neural Network
… AC power and energy storage. However, the inter-temporal and the intermittency nature of solar energy makes it necessary for the proper coordination and management of these energy sources.</p> <p>This thesis proposes an energy management system in DC data center using a neural network to …
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Dynamic Targeted Pricing in B2B Settings
… and develops an integrated framework for inter-temporal targeted pricing to optimize long-term profitability for the firm. Pricing decisions in B2B settings are inherently different from those within the business-to-consumer (B2C) environment, commonly studied in marketing. First, B2B …
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Essays on the economics of innovation
… In the first chapter, I estimate the dynamic or inter-temporal knowledge spillovers resulting from corporate R&D in a setting with cumulative innovation, using a panel of US firms and a network of corporate patent citations. I show that the positive effect of dynamic spillovers on other firms' …
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The limits of liberalism? : long-run petroleum prices and government intervention in petroleum markets in Japan, France, and the United States
This study considers cross-national and inter-temporal variation in national oil policies in Japan, France, and the United States. A test was performed of the extent to which policies in these countries continue to emphasize national control over the petroleum supply chain, or have adopted more …
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Rethinking Civil War
… and type, but differentially so over time; this inter-temporal variation in formation colors the state's strategic response, conditional on state capacity. For example, stronger groups become relatively more common past LIV, whereas before LIV, states have limited information on challenger type …
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Aladdin's Magic Lamp: Developing Methods for Calibration and Geolocation Accuracy Assessment of the DMSP OLS
… for assessing geolocation accuracy, performing inter-calibration, and defining the minimum detectable brightness would be beneficial. An array of portable lights was designed and taken to multiple field sites known to have no other light sources. The lights were operated during nighttime …
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Financial market failures and systemic crises
… bank runs. Without regulation, banks do not internalize how their funding decisions affects the terms at which other market participants can obtain credit. The formal welfare study conducted, provides a general equilibrium notion of systemic risk that captures both fundamental insolvency and …
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Essays on Sovereign Debt Crisis
… sovereign default, incorporating financial intermediaries. By a government's decision to default, government bonds become non-performing and financial intermediaries eliminate them from their net worth. While other literature on endogenous default models assumes that the default state is …
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