Search Results - subject:"SIMULTANEITY"

PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING WITH A SIMULTANEITY CONSTRAINT AND UNIT-LENGTH JOBS TO MINIMIZE THE MAKESPAN

LIN, LIN; LIN, YIXUN; ZHOU, XIANWEI; FU, RUYAN - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 27 (2010) 06, pp. 669-676

In this paper, we consider the parallel machine scheduling with a simultaneity constraint and unit-length jobs. The …. Simultaneity constraint means that we can process a vertex job v if and only if there exists at least dG(v) idle machines, where dG …

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Trade and Conflict: Proximity, Country Size, and Measures

Keshk, Omar M.G.; Reuveny, Rafael; Pollins, Brian M. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 27 (2010) 1, pp. 3-27

The effect of trade on military conflict is one of the most important questions in international relations. Liberals argue that trade brings peace, neo-realists and neo-Marxists reason that trade brings conflict, while classical realists contend that trade has no impact on conflict. This article...

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Essays on the contribution of public infrastructure to private production and its political economy

Stephan, Andreas - 2001

Die Dissertation besteht aus fünf unabhängigen Aufsätzen zu zwei zentralen Themen. Das erste Thema ist die Beziehung zwischen Infrastruktur und privater Produktivität. Das zweite Thema sind die Determinanten regionaler Infrastrukturinvestitionen. Während der erste und zweite Aufsatz der...

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Towards a political economy of industrial organization: empirical regularities from deregulation

Duso, Tomaso; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2001

This paper argues that the study of policy incidence in industrial organization needs to take the endogeneity of government into account. The point is made by investigating whether political considerations are important in terms of understanding the causes and effects of deregulation using data...

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Lobbying and regulation in a political economy: evidence from the US cellular industry

Duso, Tomaso - 2001

status might generate a simultaneity problem between the effects and the determinants of regulatory decisions. We explicitly … for our approach: Regulatory choice should be considered endogenous. Accounting for the simultaneity bias, we show that …

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Efficiency Wages, Productivity and Simultaneity: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Peach, Eric Krassoi; Stanley, T. - In: Journal of Labor Research 30 (2009) 3, pp. 262-268

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Who decides to regulate? Lobbying activity in the US cellular industry

Duso, Tomaso - 2000

explicitly model the simultaneity between these two issues makes a qualitative difference in the analysis of the role of …: Regulatory choice should be considered endogenous. We show that, correcting for the simultaneity, regulation’s overall effect … simultaneity. Moreover, we provide evidence that the probability of regulation was higher, other things equal, when the regulator …

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The Simultaneity Bias of the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity: Evidence for Brazil

Ferreira, Alex Luiz - Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade … - 2008

We test ex ante uncovered interest parity (UIP) for Brazil using survey data of ex- change rate expectations from the Brazilian Central Bank. Using data from 2001M11 until 2007M12 and Ordinary Least Squares, we found that the estimated UIP parameter is smaller than one, which is a common...

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Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children: Evidence from Rural India

Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The present paper argues that intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children are important determinants of any coresidency arrangement though generally overlooked in the existing literature. In this respect the paper distinguishes between exchange of both financial and...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: A Time-Series Approach

Roy, Atrayee Ghosh; Berg, Hendrik Van den - In: Global Economy Journal 6 (2007) 1, pp. 7-7

Research has often focused on how foreign direct investment (FDI) transfers technology from developed economies to less developed economies. Most FDI occurs between developed economies, however, and the country receiving the greatest inflow of FDI is the United States. This paper examines...

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