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From fault tree to credit risk assessment : a case study

Gatfaoui, Hayette - 2004 - This draft: September 2004

Reliability has been largely applied to industrial systems in order to study the various possibilities of systems … minimal paths leading to any system’s fault allows for a better control of systems’ safety. To this end, reliability is … reliability, which matches default risk analysis in a simple framework. Our extension includes other distributions of probability …

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Nonparametric tests for common values at first-price sealed bid auctions

Haile, Philip A.; Hong, Han; Shum, Matthew - 2003

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Effect of Employment Guarantee on Access to Credit : Evidence from Rural India

Saraswat, Deepak - 2011

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest and most ambitious public works program for poverty alleviation, adopted by Government of India since independence. It was implemented in year 2006, starting with the first phase of 200 most backward districts in...

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Governance Matters

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Zoido, Pablo - 2004

Six new aggregate measures capturing various dimensions of governance provide new evidence of a strong causal relationship from better governance to better development outcomes. In a cross-section of more than 150 countries, Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton provide new empirical evidence of a...

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Aggregating Governance Indicators

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Zoido, Pablo - 2001

In recent years, the growing interest of academics and policymakers in governance has been reflected in the proliferation cross-country indices measuring various aspects of governance. In this paper we explain how a simple variant of an unobserved components model can be used to combine the...

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Clicks to Conversion : The Impact of Product and Price Information

Ramachandran, Vandana; Viswanathan, Siva; Lucas, Henry C. - 2014

This study seeks to examine how different types of information – product-related and price-related information provided by retailers – impact purchase-related outcomes for consumers belonging to different states of shopping. Using mixture-modeling techniques on clickstream data obtained from...

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Governance Matters VI : Governance Indicators for 1996-2006

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2007

This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government...

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The Consequences of Information Overload in Knowledge Based Service Economies

Debely, Joëlle; Dubosson, Magali; Fragniere, Emmanuel - 2007

We have conducted a survey research to measure the perception of the Genevese population regarding the problem of information overload. The sample size is 581. Main findings indicate that information overload is a real concern in Geneva and seems to affect the efficiency of companies. Themes...

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Growth Without Governance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart - 2004

It is well known that there is a strong positive correlation between per capita incomes and the quality of governance across countries. Kaufmann and Kraay propose an empirical strategy that allows separation of this correlation into (1) a strong positive causal effect running from better...

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Governance Matters Ii : Updated Indicators for 2000-01

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Zoido, Pablo - 2004

Updated governance indicators report estimates of six dimensions of governance for 175 countries in 2000-01. They can be compared with those constructed for 1997-98. Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobaton construct aggregate governance indicators for six dimensions of governance, covering 175...

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