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Who, What, When, Why: Resource Economics Before the Fall

Wiener, Jonathan B. - 1998

microeconomic theory to these fundamental questions about resource management practises 'before the fall'. The essential argument is …

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Establishing the Micro Foundations of a Macro-Level Theory: Information, Movers, and the Tiebout Market Model

Teske, Paul; Schneider, Mark; Mintrom, Michael - 1992

"The Tiebout model is one of our most important theories of local government. It is also one of the most controversial. Current debate over the Tiebout model revolves around the apparent disparity between results of macro- and micro-level empirical studies. While macro-level evidence shows...

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The Concept of Coproduction and its Implications for Public Service Delivery

Kiser, Larry L.; Percy, Stephen L. - 1980

"Contrary to most economic theory, consumers are not always easily distinguished from producers, particularly in the …

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Adaptive external torque estimation by means of tracking a Lyapunov function

Schaub, H.; Junkins, J.L.; Robinett, R.D. - 2010

A real-time method is presented to adoptively estimate three-dimensional unmodeled external torques acting on a spacecraft. This is accomplished by forcing the tracking error dynamics to follow the Lyapunov function underlying the feedback control law. For the case where the external torque is...

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Modeling and identification of parallel and feedback nonlinear systems

Chen, Hai-Wen - 2009

Structural classification and parameter estimation (SCPE) methods have been used for studying single-input single. output (SISO) parallel and feedback nonlinear system models from input-output (I-O) measurements. The uniqueness of the I-O mappings of different models and parameter uniqueness of...

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Studies in the Dynamics of Economic Systems

Giraud-Carrier, Christophe G.; Seppi, Kevin; Tran, Nghia; … - 2005

This paper demonstrates the utility of systems and control theory in the analysis of economic systems. Two applications … control theory in the analysis of economic systems. Twoapplications demonstrate how the analysis of simple dynamicmodels sheds … established history, it isour view that economic systems continue to provide a richapplication domain for control theory to …

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Summary Brief: Macro Influences on the Adoption of Sales Force Automation (SFA) Technology

Borders, Aberdeen Leila; Widmier, Scott; Hair, Joe - 2009

There is great interest in the application of technological solutions driven by a thriving CRM industry. It has been shown the more effective the implementation of SFA, the greater its impact on increased sales performance. Previous research on SFA adoption has focused on the individual as the...

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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

theory suggest that they work against efficiency when membership grows too diffuse. To address this issue, this study uses a … model that takes into account existing theory on constrained-optimization in credit unions and theory on the adverse effects …

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Three essays on econometrics

Ma, Zhiwei - 2007

. Based on empirical process theory, this chapter studies the asymptotic properties of GMC under mild conditions. A χ2 test …

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Economics of oil prices and the role of OPEC

Kisswani, Khalid M - 2009

Two oil price shocks changed the pattern of cheap oil. The first was the Arab embargo on oil exports in 1973. Oil prices rose five fold. In 1978, the second was the fall of Shah Iran. Prices soared to $80-$100 a barrel in today's prices. In 1960, OPEC was established and since then it has been a...

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