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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"multiple equilibria"”.
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Multiple equilibria and low-frequency variability of wind-driven ocean models
… additional pairs of mirror image non-symmetric equilibria come into existence. These additional equilibria have currents which redistribute relative vorticity across the line of zero wind-stress curl. This internal redist~ibution of vorticity prevents the solution from developing the large …
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Steady-state models and multiple equilibria in transportation: theory and evidence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Multiple equilibria and low-frequency variability of wind-driven ocean models
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1998.
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Multiple equilibria and their stability in a barotropic and baroclinic atmosphere
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1982.
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Oceanic control of the sea ice edge and multiple equilibria in the climate system
… of idealized models are invoked to argue that multiple equilibria and abrupt change are robust features of the climate system. The main finding is that meridional structure in poleward oceanic energy transport, which is set by the wind forcing, gives rise to preferred latitudes for the sea ice …
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In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company: A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model
… data-driven, co-evolutionary and can accommodate multiple equilibria. Chapter 4 analyses what the implications of this proposed model are for company law, illustrated by a case-study on shareholder limited liability for corporate torts. Chapter 5 appraises the relationship between company law and …
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The timing of commercial breaks and music variety in the radio industry
… information coordination game. The game has multiple equilibria, in which stations coordinate but on different times, if the incentive to coordinate is strong enough. The essay shows how the existence of multiple equilibria, both in the game and in the data, can help to identify the …
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Essays in development economics
… processes and concentrates on the theories of multiple equilibria. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first chapter deals with the relationship between human capital, child labour and mortality and shows how multiple equilibria may emerge. The second paper analyses the role of foreign …
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A Statistical-Mechanical Model for the Binding of Flexible Ligands to Proteins
… therefore is quite different from the theory of multiple equilibria which commonly is used to analyze such interactions. The latter assumes that the ligands bind rigidly to point binding sites, neglecting the internal degrees of freedom of the bound molecules. Comparisons of binding data …
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Impacts of double-diffusive processes on the thermohaline circulation
… forcing. (c) Under "mixed" boundary conditions, multiple equilibria become possible. For given thermal forcing, the existence of multiple equilibria depends on the relative contributions of diapycnal diffusivity and the hydrologic forcing. Numerical experiments are implemented to test the above …
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Margins in the mountains: poverty dynamics in India’s western and eastern Ghats
… perceived trajectories of local wellbeing 2) Do multiple equilibria poverty traps exist? 3) What is the influence of women’s power and other covariates on household asset accumulation? 4) What are the local perspectives on government policy schemes? Qualitative results indicate a general positive …
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Impacts of double-diffusive processes on the thermohaline circulation
… forcing. (c) Under "mixed" boundary conditions, multiple equilibria become possible. For given thermal forcing, the existence of multiple equilibria depends on the relative contributions of diapycnal diffusivity and the hydrologic forcing. Numerical experiments are implemented to test the above …
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Essays on savings, investment, and monetary policy
… and governments' desire to default may lead to multiple equilibria in sovereign debt markets. We show that such multiplicity does not exist in the infinite-horizon model of Eaton and Gersovitz (1981), a widely adopted benchmark for quantitative analyses of these markets. Our proof may be …
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Essays in monetary and fiscal policy
… to fiscal transfers. However, inefficient equilibria without fiscal transfers remain possible. We derive implications for the optimal policy of the central bank when the fiscal union is under stress. The third chapter, also joint with Matthew Rognlie, studies the possibility that feedbacks …
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Modeling the dynamics of user adoption and abandonment for a single product
… previous users. We investigate the existence of equilibria of the model and derive the threshold quantity ℛ0. The user-free equilibrium is always present, and its stability is analyzed under the condition ℛ0 < 1. Moreover, a user-prevailing equilibrium does not exist when ℛ0 ≤ 1, but at least one …
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Portfolio strategies in supply contracts
… orders. We characterize the suppliers' Nash equilibria in pure strategies and show that, when demand is log-concave, there exists one or multiple equilibria, and that in any of these, suppliers bid in clusters against other suppliers with similar technologies.
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Leading indicators of currency crisis : an application to the 1996 South African currency crisis
… from one solution to the other resulting in multiple equilibria. In these models the main cause of this multiplicity is the interaction between the private sector and government behaviour. There is no policy inconsistency before the crisis but the crisis itself induces a policy change that …
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Essays on fiscal policy and elections
… platforms. With endogeneous turnout there may be multiple equilibria or a motivation to pull policy platforms away from the median and towards the mode of the voter distribution. Chapter 4 examines the link between presidential elections and the economy. Democratic election victories are often …
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Networks, decisions, and outcomes : coordination with local information and the value of temporal data for learning influence networks
… global games framework, we show that the set of equilibria of a coordination game is highly sensitive to how information is locally shared among agents. In particular, we show that the coordination game has multiple equilibria if there exists a collection of agents such that (i) they do not share …
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Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory
… the Eaton and Gersovitz (1981) model features multiple equilibria-indeed, multiple Markov equilibria-when debt is sufficiently constrained. We focus on predictions for bond yields or prices. We show that the highest bond price is independent of the history, while the lowest is strictly positive …
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