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War Size Distribution: Empirical Regularities Behind the Conflicts

Rafael, González-Val - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyses the statistical distribution of war size. We find strong support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law) using data from different sources (COW and UCDP) and periods. A power law describes accurately the size distribution of all wars, but also the distribution of the...

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Sociological and Economic Inequality and the Second Law

Kafri, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

There are two fair ways to distribute particles in boxes. The first one is the Casino’s way, namely an equal chance to any box. The second one is the thermodynamic way, namely an equal chance to any different configuration of particles and boxes. The second way, calculated here, yields an...

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On the distributional properties of size, pro fit and growth of Icelandic firms

Erlingsson, Einar Jón; Alfarano, Simone; Raberto, Marco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2818 Icelandic firms during the period 2000-2009. We find that the firms size measure, i.e....

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Black swans or dragon kings? A simple test for deviations from the power law

Janczura, Joanna; Weron, Rafal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We develop a simple test for deviations from power law tails, which is based on the asymptotic properties of the empirical distribution function. We use this test to answer the question whether great natural disasters, financial crashes or electricity price spikes should be classified as dragon...

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Pengertian dari dan untuk ketakmengertian: Social Complexity sebagai cara pandang baru dalam memahami fenomena sosial

Situngkir, Hokky - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper discusses the utilization of social complexity studies to enhance our understanding on many social phenomena. The discussions brings the concept of uncertainty in almost everything of social realms and makes some points related to the empirical findings of the power-law distributions...

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Information Technology and Transportation: Substitutes or Complements?

Oliver, Atara Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

use such products as substitutes for transportation. Common examples of this substitution are telecommuting, video … transportation, prior research has indicated that the relationship between ICT and transportation is quite complex; at times ICT … ICT expenditures on transportation demand. The analysis indicates that ICT may serve as a substitute for air travel, but …

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The Trade Consequences of Maritime Insecurity: Evidence from Somali Piracy

Burlando, Alfredo; Cristea, Anca D.; Lee, Logan M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In the past decade, pirates from Somalia have carried out thousands of attacks on cargo ships sailing through the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, causing what others have identified as significant damage to maritime trade. In this paper, we use variations in the spread and intensity of Somali...

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Oceanic Travel Conditions and American Immigration, 1890-1914

Keeling, Drew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The pace and incidence of improvements to oceanic travel conditions for American immigrants, during the quarter century preceeding the First World War, were significantly constrained by shipping lines’ capacity considerations. The improvements had no detectable impact on the overall volume of...

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The contribution of Coastal Shipping in the Regional Development of the Greek Islands. The Case of the Southern Aegean Region

Sambracos, Evangelos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

important means of transporting goods, and the primary means with over 70%, of passenger transportation. Therefore the …

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How Important is Technology? A Counterfactual Analysis

Yilmazkuday, Hakan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

and regional variables? This paper studies the impact of productivity changes in the goods sector and the transportation … costs, a transportation sector is modeled to allow an efficient distribution of workers across the production and … transportation sectors. The state level data from the U.S. support the model, and the comparative statics exercises have several …

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