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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Matching efficiency"”.
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Intergovernmental fiscal reform in South Africa : preference matching, efficiency and accountability
… system enables provinces to achieve preference matching, efficiency and accountability. In the final analysis the paper contests that the system does not enable preference matching because of centralized policy making, provincial over reliance on national transfers to finance their expenditures …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… on the business cycle. Chapter 3 "Inter-sector matching efficiency and sectoral comovement'' examines the comovement of sectoral labor markets when there is search friction in the inter-firm matching market. Chapter 4 "Lumpy investment and endogenous investment price'' (Joint work with Linxi …
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Essays on Financial and Labor Markets with Frictions
… across firms has an adverse effect on the matching efficiency in the labor market. I then quantify the importance of capital misallocation for understanding the behavior of unemployment rate. I find that the credit crunch was the key driving force behind the outward shift in the Beveridge …
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Essays in macroeconomics and unemployment
… DSGE models that include labor search-and-matching frictions assume that only unemployed workers are job seekers. Without taking the behavior of employed job seekers into account, these standard models overestimate the true magnitude of fluctuations in the entire population of job seekers. …
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Development of expert systems as on-line operational aids
… of the knowledge base and the computational efficiency. Besides validating the knowledge base, computation time is analyzed. Based on discrimination nets, used in many production system languages for pattern matching efficiency, a method is proposed to obtain the worst case computation time …
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Essays on Consumer Bankruptcy, Employment, Firm Dynamics, and Aging in the United States
… economy. The first chapter shows that improved matching between borrowers and lenders quantitatively explains the rise in unsecured credit and consumer bankruptcies in the United States. The model is calibrated to match the increase in the population with access to unsecured credit. Results show …
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Indexing and Retrieval of 3D Articulated Geometry Models
… the works that we have surveyed, reliability and efficiency are the two main issues that hinder the popularity of such systems. In this research, we have focused our attention mainly to address these two issues. We have discovered that most existing works design features and matching algorithms in …
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Essays on Bargaining and Markets
Chapter 1: Inefficiency in a Frictionless Market Gale and Sabourian (2006) discuss the existence of inefficient Markov-perfect equilibrium (MPE) in a heterogeneous market. This paper shows that the example they provide cannot be supported as a MPE. Indeed, with two buyers and two sellers, the …