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On the mechanics of economic development

by X. Lucas, A. Agut, G. Ramis, E. Belda, M. Soler, X. Lucas, Hospital Departmenit Of, G. Ramis, Ininovation Departmenit, Cefu Sa - Journal of Monetary Economics , 1988
"... THERE have been very few reports of uterine rupture in the cat in the literature (Webb 1972). The causes include external trauma during pregnancy, severe alterations of the wall of the uterus, inadequate obstetric manipulations, and the incorrect use of drugs such as oxytocin or prostaglandin F2ec ( ..."
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(Jackson 1995). This short communication describes a case of uterine rupture in a cat which was hit by a car. An 18-month-old female domestic shorthair cat was referred by a veterinary practitioner to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the University of Murcia. The cat had initially been presented

Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity. The American Economic Review,

by Avinash K Dixit , Joseph E Stiglitz , Harold Hotelling , Nicholas Stern , Kelvin Lancaster , Stiglitz , 1977
"... The basic issue concerning production in welfare economics is whether a market solution will yield the socially optimum kinds and quantities of commodities. It is well known that problems can arise for three broad reasons: distributive justice; external effects; and scale economies. This paper is c ..."
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The basic issue concerning production in welfare economics is whether a market solution will yield the socially optimum kinds and quantities of commodities. It is well known that problems can arise for three broad reasons: distributive justice; external effects; and scale economies. This paper

Africa´s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions

by William Easterly, Ross Levine - JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS , 1997
"... Explaining cross-country differences in growth rates requires not only an understanding of the link between growth and public policies, but also an understanding of why countries choose different public policies. This paper shows that ethnic diversity helps explain cross-country differences in publi ..."
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in public policies, political stability, and other economic indicators. In the case of Sub-Saharan Africa, economic growth is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial systems, distorted foreign exchange markets, high government deficits, and insufficient infrastructure

Systems Competition and Network Effects

by Michael L. Katz, Carl Shapiro - JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES—VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2—SPRING 1994—PAGES 93–115 , 1994
"... Many products have little or no value in isolation, but generate value when combined with others. Examples include: nuts and bolts, which together provide fastening services; home audio or video components and programming, which together provide entertainment services; automobiles, repair parts and ..."
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. This paper and the others in this symposium explore the economics of such systems. Market competition between systems, as opposed to market competition between individual products, highlights at least three important issues: expectations, coordination, and compatibility. A recent wave of research has focused

Inflation and Growth

by Robert J. Barro , 1996
"... In recent years, many central banks have placed increased emphasis on price stability. Monetary policy—whether expressed in terms of interest rates or growth of monetary aggregates—has been increasingly geared toward the achievement of low and stable inflation. Central bankers and most other obs ..."
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when inflation is high and unpredictable. The academic literature contains a lot of theoretical work on the costs of inflation, as reviewed recently by Briault (1995). This analysis provides a presumption that inflation is a bad idea, but the case is not decisive without supporting empirical findings

A framework for information systems architecture.

by J A Zachman - IBM Syst. J., , 1987
"... With increasing size and complexity of the implementations of information systems, it is necessary to use some logical construct (or architecture) for defining and controlling the interfaces and the integration of all of the components of the system. This paper defines information systems architect ..."
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in the management of business resources. However, there also is merit in the more traditional, smaller, suboptimal systems design approach. Such systems are relatively economical, quickly implemented, and easier to design and manage. In either case, since the technology permits "distributing" large

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson - IN HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, ED. PHILIPPE AGHION AND STEPHEN DURLAUF , 2005
"... This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division of K ..."
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This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division

Coverage Problems in Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks

by Seapahn Meguerdichian, Farinaz Koushanfar, Miodrag Potkonjak, Mani B. Srivastava - in IEEE INFOCOM , 2001
"... Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently emerged as a premier research topic. They have great longterm economic potential, ability to transform our lives, and pose many new system-building challenges. Sensor networks also pose a number of new conceptual and optimization problems. Some, such as ..."
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Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks have recently emerged as a premier research topic. They have great longterm economic potential, ability to transform our lives, and pose many new system-building challenges. Sensor networks also pose a number of new conceptual and optimization problems. Some

Governance in Global Value Chains

by Gary Gereffi - IDS Bulletin Special Issue on The Value of Value Chains , 2001
"... This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature – transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning – to identify three variables that play a large rol ..."
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This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature – transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning – to identify three variables that play a large

The Foundations of Cost-Sensitive Learning

by Charles Elkan - In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2001
"... This paper revisits the problem of optimal learning and decision-making when different misclassification errors incur different penalties. We characterize precisely but intuitively when a cost matrix is reasonable, and we show how to avoid the mistake of defining a cost matrix that is economically i ..."
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This paper revisits the problem of optimal learning and decision-making when different misclassification errors incur different penalties. We characterize precisely but intuitively when a cost matrix is reasonable, and we show how to avoid the mistake of defining a cost matrix that is economically
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