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Showing 1 to 20 of 515 for “"inefficiency"”.
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The inefficiency of open-loop fMRI experiments
The default mode network (DMN) is a highly cited neural network whose functional roles are not well understood. Until recently, event related fMRI experiments used to study the DMN could only be conducted in an open-loop format. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the potential statistical …
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Essays on Characterizing Inefficiency for Stochastic Frontier Models
… on stochastic frontier models in characterizing inefficiency for a cross section of firms in essays one and three and a set of firms overtime in essay two. The first essay looks at stationary points for several models used in stochastic frontier analysis. The second essay extends the multivariate …
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Inequality as a cause of macro-instability and productive inefficiency
These essays will examine the impact of inequality from both macro and micro perspectives. The first issue to be raised will be the contribution of inequality to macroeconomic instability. In the third chapter the focus will expand to determine whether an optimal level of inequality can be found. …
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Temporal Issues in Market Inefficiency in asset prices with an emphasis on commodities
This summary provides an overview of the contributions made in this thesis to the literature. No references are included in the summary; these can be found in the Bibliography on page 156. This dissertation consists of 6 chapters. The first chapter acts as an introduction to the thesis and …
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Fixing cracks in the US health system : addressing inefficiency and inequality with technology and transparency.
The United States (U.S.) healthcare system is the most expensive among developed countries, yet it faces persistent challenges. Primary issues include rising costs, inefficiencies, limited access to care, and pockets of poor-quality outcomes. This dissertation examines some critical cracks in the …
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The University as a Non-Profit Firm: Administrative Expense Bias as a Source of Inefficiency
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Impaired Ulk1 Ser555 Phosphorylation Promotes Amino Acid Reliance and Links Mitochondrial Inefficiency to Systemic Metabolic Inflexibility
Metabolic flexibility—the capacity and ability to switch between energetic substrates in response to nutrient availability—is essential for systemic energy balance and protection against metabolic disease. Loss of this adaptive capacity contributes to metabolic diseases marked by obesity, insulin …
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The Inefficiency of the Judiciary and Alternative Forms of Social Control: A Case Study of Rental Contracts in Brazil
The main purpose of this study is to analyze how institutions, the legal system among them, affect the economic performance of a country. Specifically, a malfunctioning legal system creates uncertainties that might hamper the completion of new transactions, particularly those involving previously …
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Assessing technical inefficiency in private, not-for-profit, bachelor's and master's universities in the United States using stochastic frontier estimation
<p>This research explored the technical inefficiency of 813 private, not-for-profit, four-year, bachelor’s and master’s colleges and universities in the U.S. using data from 2006 to 2011. The goal of the study was to describe and explain the level of technical inefficiency in this group of …
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Three Essays in Public Economics
… from library use to bookstore use, increasing inefficiency. In the final chapter of this dissertation a stochastic cost frontier and the determinants of cost inefficiency are estimated using a one-step maximum likelihood technique. The results suggest that libraries operate at roughly 44% …
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Police bias and socioeconomic status: Are the police biased towards individuals in lower SES and poverty areas?
Police bias and inefficiency are greater towards individuals living in low SES neighborhoods and poverty and they tend to not report to the police because they experience abusive behavior, distrust and corruption when dealing with police. A hypothesis was proposed: People in low SES neighborhoods …
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High throughput path selection for unstructured data center networks
… flow and packet-level to determine the cause of inefficiency and study methods of path selection that may help bridge the gap between optimal throughput and packet level throughput. The difference in throughput can be attributed to inefficiency due to path selection and inefficiency due to …
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Effects of various inefficiencies in rowing on shell speed
… in determining the effects of various sources of inefficiency in rowing on shell speed. These predictions were then tested using a MATLAB model of the rowing stroke. The model simulates an eight man oared rowing shell and determines average shell speed, stroke rating, power per stroke, and time …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
… in their bequest decisions, the only type of inefficiency that may arise in the competitive equilibrium is dynamic inefficiency, either in the form of under- and over-accumulation. Introducing childcare subsidies or estate tax creates short-run distortions, whereas a pay-as-you-go social …
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Three essays on mispricing and market efficiency
… second essay investigates the effect of price inefficiency on idiosyncratic risk and stock returns. I finds that price inefficiency in individual stocks contributes to expected idiosyncratic volatility. If idiosyncratic risk is priced, greater price inefficiency could be associated with higher …
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Specification tests and a reformulation of frontier models: An alternative approach to efficiency estimation
… has been performed measuring firm's technical inefficiency using this model with various distributional assumptions of technical inefficiency. Most stochastic frontier models are overly restrictive both in terms of the functional form and the distributional assumptions of the error terms. …
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Three essays in economics and finance
… finance products entails three types of inefficiency: the issuer's moral hazard when screening underlying assets (ex-ante inefficiency), the issuer's incentive to repackage underlying assets into separate securities even when doing so is socially inefficient (interim inefficiency), and …
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Essays on dynamic games and mechanism design
… In both problems, asymmetric information causes inefficiency in production and allocation. The first chapter considers the inefficiency from the principal's inability to observes the agent's effort or cost of effort, and explores its implication to the principal's response to the combination of …
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