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Daily, industry peer review panels, and the Secretary's Technology Initiative. Additionally, the potential of a 12-page … reviewed papers at internationally recognized industry-related society meetings, and on-call presentations to specific … of what works in technology transfer with industry in the area of geopressured-geothermal resources. The identified …
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As increasingly large volumes of sophisticated options (called derivative securities) are traded in world financial markets, determining a fair price for these options has become an important and difficult computational problem. Many valuation codes use the binomial pricing model, in which the...
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This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has …-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade does not appear to account for observed and anticipated trade flows …. This is consistent with findings in the commodity trade literature that, although markets may behave in a rational economic …
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a minimum of three markets: land, labor and capital. I study the interaction between the land and the labor markets … left essentially unchanged.I refute this argument on the grounds that it does not hold in a model with a full labor market …. First, I consider the wage gradient approach, where labor demand is infinitely elastic. Next, I look at the case where labor …
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This study addresses the impact of Mexican illegal immigration on the U.S. labor market. It constitutes a first step … towards developing rigorous structural econometric models that empirically analyze undocumented labor force dynamics …. Structural estimation of the labor supply and the participation decision of illegal Mexican immigration requires the solution of …
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My dissertation consists of two unrelated essays. In the first essay, "Wage Subsidy in an Optimal Redistribution Program", I analyze the efficiency of income transfers and wage subsidies as instruments of income redistribution in an optimal taxation framework. I extend the Mirrlees model (1971)...
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the distributor industry may increase distributors' bargaining power vis-a-vis producers and thereby reduce incentives for … producers to enter the upstream industry.The third essay investigates the effects of coalition formation across two bilateral … the effects of industry unions and employers' associations in a duopolistic industry. Using an "efficient bargaining …
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quality of available rental housing. A model of the labor market is presented in which the same kind of adjustment can take …
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affecting the opportunity cost of labor. Our results indicate that the strategy of intervention matters. We show that third …
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Suitable methodology and an asymptotic theory for the sequential analysis of time-to-event (duration) data is developed and its application in "Reemployment Bonus" experiments is studied.
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