Essays on convergence and synchronization

... rate and hence the coefficient β in a regression of one on the other should be negative Sigma convergence, on the other hand, is concerned with the evolution of the cross-sectional dispersion over ... traditional concepts also passes the convergence test proposed by Phillips and Sul For that purpose, time series consisting of both a common and an idiosyncratic component are const...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 16:47

... Iris Marion Young 11 Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democracy, 159 Jack Knight 12 Internal Disagreements: Deliberation and Abortion, 170 Alan Wertheimer 13 Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement: ... authority, and representation, and in Democracy and Disagreement2 Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson have provided us with a superb example of serious and normative philo...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... of dissertation: ESSAYS ON PUBLIC AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Diether Wolfgang Beuermann, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Mark Duggan Department of Economics In Chapter ... These surveys contain information on demographics, education, income and expenses The second source is FITEL’s administrative information containing the GPS location of each p...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:00

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:39

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:40

... the Good Faith exception ix Abstract My dissertation consists of two essays on labor and development economics The first essay seeks to identify the main factors that contributed to the decline ... and cultural conflicts and thus obstruct economic development, depressing the overall well-being of the population Thus, efforts have been made on the part of social and politi...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:46

... observing James Ladyman questions what epistemic reason van Fraassen has for focusingonempiricaladequacy.LadymancontrastsvanFraassen’sconstructive empiricism with a pragmatic empiricism, where one gives ... clear that van Fraassen has synoptic ideas about the virtues of empiricism and the nature of philosophy, but it is not always clear what van Fraassen s ideas are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:06

... NEW ESSAYS ON TARSKI AND PHILOSOPHY This page intentionally left blank New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy Edited by DOUGL AS PAT T ERSON 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford  ... Notions Solomon Feferman 72 Tarski s Theory of Definition Wilfrid Hodges 94 Tarski s Convention T and the Concept of Truth Marian David 133 Tarski s Conception of Meaning Douglas Patterson...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:45

... Deliberative Democracy Deliberative Democracy Essays on Reason and Politics edited by James Bohman and William Rehg The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 1997 Massachusetts ... 95 by Wellington Graphics and was printed and bound in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deliberative democracy : essays on...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:23

... Expression and Financial Risk Preferences: Association with Loss Aversion, Anxiety-Related Personality Traits and Polymorphism 1.1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………… 1.2 Materials and Methods ... behavioral economics The three essays in this dissertation study people’s risk and social preferences from an empirical and experimental perspective We use biological data,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:13

... di¤erent impacts of housing on real economy Chapter extends the consumption-based asset pricing model, where housing is considered as both consumption and wealth composition As consumption goods, This ... returns and conditional versions of CCAPM conditioning on the ratio of consumption to wealth perform much better than the unconditional versions Santos and Veronesi (2006)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:07

... analyses are conducted in Section 1.6, and Section 1.7 concludes 1.2 Basic education in rural China In rural China, basic education is provided almost entirely by local government It normally consists ... Availability and Middle School Education in Rural China 1.1 Introduction During the past thirty years, many new schools were constructed and even more were clos...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:09

... institutional arrangements in the third and fourth essay In the first essay, I study the role of delegation in the principal-agent relationship based on the theoretical construction of Aghion and ... by manipulating the social environment that participants are in The experimental results show that disclosing information on the relative ranking of the dictators’ ability and the dis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:51

... business and consumer uptake and continuance as well 1.2 Definition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) The acronym ICT is used to denote a concept which is a combination of two ... development and spread of information and communication technology (ICT) in the 1990s contributed to advancing industries and improving economic productivity of the countrie...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... Corporation Definition Concession/Fiction Theory Corporation is only a state-created reification and a legal fiction Contractual/Aggregate Theory Corporation is formed by voluntary private contracting ... Corporation as an aggregation of contractual relationships – the Contractual/ Aggregation Theory Like the concession/fiction theory of the corporation, the growth of the contractual/ aggre...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:54