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... filtering techniques for LTAG (Poller and Becker, 1998) and HPSG (Torisawa et al., 2000) described in Section 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 We hereafter refer to PB and TNT for the C++ implementations of the former ... strongly equivalent grammars Gx , CFGPB , and CFGTNT henceforth refer to the LTAG extracted from Section x of WSJ and CFGs approximated from Gx by PB and TNT, respectively The size of CFGTNT is ... on which we can perform a sequential application of substitution and adjunction We then recursively apply substitution and adjunction on that traversal to an elementary tree and a generated tree...

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... 159170 Carl Pollard and Ivan A Sag 1987 Information-Based Syntax and Semantics Vol I: Fundamentals CSLI Lecture Notes, Number 13 Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford Stuart M ... graph unification for parsing featurebased grammars University of Sussex and Stanford University Ann Copestake 1998 The (new) LKB system Ms, Stanford University, http ://~n~-csli stanford, edu/~aac/newdoc, ... tomorrow) results in 8+7 entries for komme (8 entries for the come reading together with entries for the arrive reading of komme) and prepositional readings plus prefix entry for an However in Der Mann...

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... Other Examples 67 Care and Handling: Summary 70 Engines and Chrome Finish 70 Chrome and Appearances 71 Engines and Drivers 71 Common Metacharacters 71 Character Shorthands 72 Strings as Regular ... Nutshell Handbook and the Nutshell Handbook logo are registered trademarks and The Java Series is a trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers ... 115 NFA, DFA, and POSIX "The Longest-Leftmost" 115 115 POSIX and the Longest-Leftmost Rule 116 Speed and Efficiency 118 DFA and NFA in Comparison 118 Page viii Practical Regex Techniques 121...

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... K Landfester and C.K Weiss therefore be used for the formation of nanocapsules The anionic polymerization of alkylcyanoacrylates (ACA) can also be performed at the interface between aqueous and ... suitable and versatile method for the formation of capsule formation with sizes down to 100 nm Even the formation of inorganic capsules (e.g., [167]) by the miniemulsion polymerization is possible For ... Science Recently Published and Forthcoming Volumes Modern Techniques for Nanoand Microreactors/-reactions Volume Editor: Caruso, F Vol 229, 2010 Interfacial Processes and Molecular Aggregation...

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... scalar equations given in standard form f(x) = versus via fixed-point iterations xi+1 = φ(xi ) and so forth, and thus they build mostly on ancient and outdated methods and ideas Worse, they generally ... 9.99999899 · 108 in standard decimal form and 1.2 Numerical Methods and MATLAB Techniques 19 numbers outside of this range in exponential form be±a In this book we shall use MATLAB codes and explain more ... typing help format at the >> prompt, or help \, for example, will show the syntax and variations of these two commands “format” and ‘backslash’ Whenever a student encounters a MATLAB command that...

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... Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis This page intentionally left blank Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis Peter Davis and Eliana Garc´ ... since understanding these key elements of economic analysis is crucial for an appropriate use of quantitative techniques 1.1 Demand Functions and Demand Elasticities The analysis of demand is probably ... transformation of demand curve: Ájj D Pj @Qj @ ln Qj D : Qj @Pj @ ln Pj The term “elasticity” is sometimes used as shorthand for “price elasticity of demand,” which in turn is shorthand for “the...

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... result from a brand’s image Suppose we face a market with two differentiated goods and the following linear demand system: Demand for good 1: q1 D a1 b11 p1 C b12 p2 ; Demand for good 2: q2 D ... costs as expand production keeping output of each good in proportion Source: Authors’ rendition of a multiproduct cost function provided by Evans and Heckman (1984a,b) and Bailey and Friedlander (1982) ... of a firm does not matter for the value of the firm Of course, most practitioners and academics believed and believe that the proportions of debt and equity matter and so for fifty years corporate...

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... in Fisher (1980, 1986) and Finkelstein and Levenbach (1983) For more general econometrics texts, see, for example, Greene (2007) and Wooldridge (2007) And for an advanced and more technical but ... “reduced-form” equations Estimating a reduced form for market prices and quantities will require data on equilibrium prices and quantities in that market as dependent variables and then observed demand ... demand elasticities are negative and supply elasticities positive, this formula suggests intuitively that the dominant firm will therefore face a relatively elastic demand curve when market demand...

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... consider any two normal goods, say cars and holidays When the economy is good we will tend to see high demand, and hence high prices, for both cars and holidays and yet, of course, we would not want ... not yet exist and for which there are no data One example may be when a firm wants to evaluate the demand for a brand new product, say, television or fourth generation (4G) phones, before such products ... customers—those for whom store A and store B are pretty close substitutes for one another but before the price rise at A there was a small preference for going to A On the other hand, the CC’s...

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... is the size of the market, a and b are demand parameters, and c and d are the cost parameters The demand and costs parameters are unobserved and their effect is therefore included in the error ... Moulton bias For example, STATA has the option “cluster” to its “regress” command For a more technical discussion of Moulton bias, see, for example, Cameron and Trevedi (2005) 5.1 Framework for Analyzing ... and the time unit used Finally, one should also inquire about internal For a review of the price index literature, see, for example, Triplett (1992) and also Kon¨ s (1939), u Frisch (1936), and...

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... to allow for firm heterogeneity and Mazzeo (2002) and Seim (2006) extended the analysis and estimation of entry games to allow for product differentiation Davis (2006c) allowed for some forms of ... unobserved and observed firm heterogeneity in profitability, for example, in terms of different costs, and therefore any model should account for it appropriately Many if not all firms, agencies, and practitioners ... both jurisdictions See, for example, the work by Sutton (1991), Klepper (1996), and Klepper and Simons (2000), and in the strategy literature see Markides and Geroski (2005) and McGahan (2004) 286...

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... Without information about costs, the only market events that one could use for identification are changes in demand In this section and the next we consider respectively demand shifts and demand rotations ... prices, the demand for physical CDs has dropped Only the demand rotation will help us identify conduct Similarly, weather may affect both the level of demand for umbrellas and also demand may be ... D For example, we know that only cost shifters should be in the supply function and hence are excluded from the demand equation while demand shifters should only be in the demand equation and...

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... of demand but ultimately his demand function takes the form, Ä Pj Pi Pi Ph qi D ı ; xj xi xi x h where P and x stand for price and quality of the product and h, i , and j are indicators for products ... version of the “beforeand-after” method by taking into account changes in demand and supply conditions By running a reduced-form regression of the price level on demand and cost factors For a good discussion ... the forecast on that Either approach requires assumptions For example, the raw form of the before -and- after methodology implicitly assumes that market conditions are unchanged since if demand and...

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... for example, by Green and Porter (1984) and Rotemberg and Saloner (1986) and some empirical support for the patterns suggested by that literature are, for example, provided in Porter (1983) and ... firm and market demand for understanding competition For example, we have seen that demand is important in determining firm behavior such as pricing decisions and we have also seen that demand ... X k2=f pk exp.wj C !j // @qk D for j =f and also for each firm f: @pj These J equations, together with the J demand equations, provide us with the structural form for this model Note that the structural...

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... chapter Before doing so we briefly discuss informal and semiformal quantitative methods for evaluating the incentive for foreclosure 10.2 Measuring the Effect of Vertical Restraints 10.2.1 519 Informal ... those markets Crawford (2000) provides an alternate model of demand for basic and premium cable using a similar data set allowing for consumer heterogeneity while Shum and Crawford (2007) add a ... Restraints 10.2.1 519 Informal and Semiformal Analysis of Incentives Informal quantitative analysis can sometimes be insightful for evaluating the incentive for foreclosure An example of such...

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... where RPM induces promotional and sales effort is not so obvious For example, it could be that promotional efforts to promote Corning glassware increase the total demand for glassware positively, ... distribution of consumer preferences and the relative importance and effect of the price and advertisement efforts Finally, if Corning and Anchor Hocking are branded substitutes, the decrease in ... (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (ASE) stocks on day t , D t is a dummy variable that takes the value for the days in the event window and otherwise, and eit is a random error term for firm...

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... result from a brand’s image Suppose we face a market with two differentiated goods and the following linear demand system: Demand for good 1: q1 D a1 b11 p1 C b12 p2 ; Demand for good 2: q2 D ... costs as expand production keeping output of each good in proportion Source: Authors’ rendition of a multiproduct cost function provided by Evans and Heckman (1984a,b) and Bailey and Friedlander (1982) ... of a firm does not matter for the value of the firm Of course, most practitioners and academics believed and believe that the proportions of debt and equity matter and so for fifty years corporate...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... in Fisher (1980, 1986) and Finkelstein and Levenbach (1983) For more general econometrics texts, see, for example, Greene (2007) and Wooldridge (2007) And for an advanced and more technical but ... “reduced-form” equations Estimating a reduced form for market prices and quantities will require data on equilibrium prices and quantities in that market as dependent variables and then observed demand ... demand elasticities are negative and supply elasticities positive, this formula suggests intuitively that the dominant firm will therefore face a relatively elastic demand curve when market demand...

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