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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"life cycle model"”.
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A dynamic life cycle model for Germany with unemployment uncertainty
… of unemployment in a dynamic and stochastic life cycle model. The intertemporal optimization is based on Dynamic Programming with a backward recursion algorithm. The implemented uncertainty is not based on income shocks as it is done in traditional life cycle models but uses Markov …
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A life-cycle model of manufacturing networks and Chicago's metalworking industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… tests reduce incentives to save, consistent with models in which more generous public insurance lowers the need for precautionary saving. To interpret these findings, I develop a dynamic life-cycle model of saving under income and medical expense risk, calibrated to key moments from the Hubbard, …
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Retirement income, bequests, and insurance : implications of mortality risk in a stochastic life cycle model
… of four studies on the role of annuities and life insurance in the portfolios of elderly households. It has long been known in the economics literature that annuities should be of substantial value in the portfolios of retired individuals. However, outside of private pension plans. the …
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An intergenerational life-cycle model of family investment in human capital: A case study of Indonesia
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A taxing incentive? a comparison of retirement saving using discretionary investment and Regulation 28 in a Life-Cycle Model
… other than their choice of investments. The model used a 40 year working and saving horizon, whereby the investors contribute a portion of their income to a retirement savings vehicle of their choice. The savings in these vehicles accumulate and earn real returns until retirement. The …
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Linkages Between Tenure, Risk, and Time Attitudes: Effects on Farm Business Decisions
… show that farm businesses can be analyzed in a life-cycle model, in which tenure, production, financing, and investment 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. …
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The Effects of Social Security on Private Saving
… 1947 through 1993. The analysis is based on the life-cycle hypothesis developed by Modigliani and Ando. Feldstein's extended life-cycle model, incorporating Social Security Wealth (SSW) into the traditional life-cycle model, provides the building block for this paper. A Generalized Least Squares …
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Measuring the labor supply effect of income taxation using a life-cycle labor supply model: A case of Indonesia
The focus of this study is to estimate a life cycle model of labor supply including taxes for a developing economy by applying two methods of estimation. The first method is the cohort approach and the second approach is the consumption approach. The idea of the cohort approach is to create a …
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Gaming growth in Clark County, Nevada: A life cycle study
The purpose of this study was to use product life cycle (PLC) theory to analyze the growth of gaming in Clark County, Nevada. Historical data for the last 30 years, provided by the Nevada Gaming Abstracts and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, allowed average casino revenues, hotel …
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Essays on the financial system of developing economies
… U shape savings rate profile predicted by the life-cycle model.
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Essays in financial economics
… in the equity share. In a standard homothetic life-cycle model with human capital and constant risk aversion, the portfolio responses to these two wealth shocks should be of equal magnitude and opposite sign. The positive net effect in the data is evidence for risk aversion that decreases in …
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Relationships between sea surface temperature and nutrients in satellite detected oceanic fronts
… estimate of "age" within a simplified upwelling "life cycle" model. The features range in scale from tens to hundreds of kilometers. The upwelling features exhibited very strong correlations between nutrient and temperature but a third feature had considerable nutrient variability. This suggests a …
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Essays in management of technology : collaborative strategies for the American technology industries
… in support of the proposed technological life cycle model. The literature of alliances and acquisitions is reviewed and further empirical studies of the economics of the strategic alliances are conducted. As a technology evolves, the high-technology companies that use it or sell it in the …
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Software development process : web-based pavement management systems as case study
… Over the past thirty years, different kinds of life cycle models have been developed by applying these phases to provide developers with the most appropriate procedures for projects of various types. In addition, a set of development fundamentals should be considered during the process to …
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A Stochastic Model for The Transmission Dynamics of Toxoplasma Gondii
… well understood, although a lot of mathematical models have been built. In this thesis, we adopt a complex life cycle model developed by Turner et al. and extend their work to include diffusion of hosts. Most of researches focus on the deterministic models. However, some scientists have reported …
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Development of mining settlements in Namibia: An investigation into prospects for Rosh Pinah, Klein Aub and Tsumeb
… influences spatial analysis and development models until today; (ii) human migration perceptions; (iii) a life-cycle model for mining settlements adapted from Luca’s mineral life-cycle model for resource towns (1971); (iv) the theoretical framework of Local Economic Development (LED); and (v) …
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Spouses’ experience of a shared alcohol rehabilitation involvement : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… session they attended as a couple. The family life cycle model is used as theoretical framework. The research was conducted at Stabilis Treatment Centre where three female participants were recruited. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and a genogram. The collected data was …
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Problematising the diffusion of LGBTI rights in Africa : the case of Malawi.
… seeks to highlight the gaps within the Norm Life Cycle model as developed by Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink by exploring the difficulties faced in diffusing the LGBTI norm into Malawi. The rejection of the LGBTI norm by Malawians at societal level shows an impediment to norm diffusion …
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Tiv-Model : an empirically validated design methodology for complex space systems
… design engineering methodology called the “Tiv-Model”, which combines novel academic research into a space systems engineering life cycle model that addresses the emergent challenges. 3. A procedure for verifying and validating design models, based on an existing technique called the “Validation …
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