To project the US potential to meet future electricity demands with wind energy, estimates of available wind resource and costs to access that resource are critical. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA) annually estimates the US market penetration of wind in...

Compact fluorescent technologies have been steadily improving. There has been increased interest in utilizing compact fluorescents to provide cost-effective energy savings for electric utilities in the residential sector. Several utilities in the United States have already distributed compact...

This paper evaluates the performance of Poisson and negative binomial (NB) regression models in establishing the relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections. Three types of models are considered. Poisson regression, zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression, and NB...

The 2002 Winter Olympics women's figure skating competition is used as a case study to illustrate some of the limitations, pitfalls, and practical difficulties of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The paper compares several widely used models for synthesizing the multiple attributes into...

In this dissertation, we investigate various aspects of the systematic mortality risks, in particular, the longevity risks. To describe the precise meaning of random survival probability, we model the systematic mortality risks by generalizing the idea of conditional independence into a...

According to international law, straddling fish stocks should be managed cooperativelythrough Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs).This paper analyzes the stability and success of these organizations through agame in partition function form based on the classical Gordon-Schaefer...

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in theBritish engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage ofcontaining a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long periodwith varying labour market conditions,...

This paper discusses the relationship between two threads of social science research: traditional analysis of healthcare market failures and criticism of the narrow assumptions economic models make. The results that the American healthcare system produces are relatively poor compared to other...

We analyze a two-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essential for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific innovations endogenously determines whether technical progress will be capital- or resource-augmenting....