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Power-law distributions in empirical data

by Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, M. E. J. Newman - ISSN 00361445. doi: 10.1137/ 070710111. URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/070710111 , 2009
"... Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the empirical detection and characterization of power laws is made difficult by the large fluctuations that occur in the t ..."
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Power-law distributions occur in many situations of scientific interest and have significant consequences for our understanding of natural and man-made phenomena. Unfortunately, the empirical detection and characterization of power laws is made difficult by the large fluctuations that occur

RELATIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WITH SYSTEMATIC

by Jeremy Bertomeu
"... Most observed managerial compensation packages do not filter out systematic economy-wide fluctuations (e.g., market indices, oil prices, macroeconomic variables). However, given that such shocks do not appear informative on individual actions, the limited use of relative performance evaluation (RPE) ..."
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Most observed managerial compensation packages do not filter out systematic economy-wide fluctuations (e.g., market indices, oil prices, macroeconomic variables). However, given that such shocks do not appear informative on individual actions, the limited use of relative performance evaluation (RPE

The Determinants of Credit Spread Changes.

by Pierre Collin-Dufresne , Robert S Goldstein , J Spencer Martin , Gurdip Bakshi , Greg Bauer , Dave Brown , Francesca Carrieri , Peter Christoffersen , Susan Christoffersen , Greg Duffee , Darrell Duffie , Vihang Errunza , Gifford Fong , Mike Gallmeyer , Laurent Gauthier , Rick Green , John Griffin , Jean Helwege , Kris Jacobs , Chris Jones , Andrew Karolyi , Dilip Madan , David Mauer , Erwan Morellec , Federico Nardari , N R Prabhala , Tony Sanders , Sergei Sarkissian , Bill Schwert , Ken Singleton , Chester Spatt , René Stulz - Journal of Finance , 2001
"... ABSTRACT Using dealer's quotes and transactions prices on straight industrial bonds, we investigate the determinants of credit spread changes. Variables that should in theory determine credit spread changes have rather limited explanatory power. Further, the residuals from this regression are ..."
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are highly crosscorrelated, and principal components analysis implies they are mostly driven by a single common factor. Although we consider several macro-economic and financial variables as candidate proxies, we cannot explain this common systematic component. Our results suggest that monthly credit spread

Internet Routing Instability

by Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian , 1997
"... This paper examines the network inter-domain routing information exchanged between backbone service providers at the major U.S. public Internet exchange points. Internet routing instability, or the rapid fluctuation of network reachability information, is an important problem currently facing the In ..."
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This paper examines the network inter-domain routing information exchanged between backbone service providers at the major U.S. public Internet exchange points. Internet routing instability, or the rapid fluctuation of network reachability information, is an important problem currently facing

The stages of economic growth.

by W W Rostow - Economic History Review , 2nd series 12, , 1959
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about

The nature of precautionary wealth

by Christopher D. Carroll, Andrew A. Samwick - Journal of Monetary Economics , 1997
"... This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide some of the first direct evidence that wealth is systematically higher for consumers with predictably greater income uncertainty. However, the apparent pattern of precautionary wealth is not consistent with a standard parameterization of ..."
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This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide some of the first direct evidence that wealth is systematically higher for consumers with predictably greater income uncertainty. However, the apparent pattern of precautionary wealth is not consistent with a standard parameterization

Information technology and economic performance: A critical review of the empirical evidence

by Jason Dedrick, Vijay Gurbaxani, Kenneth, L. Kraemer - ACM Computing Survey , 2003
"... For many years, there has been considerable debate about whether the IT revolution was paying off in higher productivity. Studies in the 1980s found no connection between IT investment and productivity in the U.S. economy, a situation referred to as the productivity paradox. Since then, a decade of ..."
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For many years, there has been considerable debate about whether the IT revolution was paying off in higher productivity. Studies in the 1980s found no connection between IT investment and productivity in the U.S. economy, a situation referred to as the productivity paradox. Since then, a decade

Temporal fluctuations in Amazonian deforestation rates

by R O B E R , T M E W E R S , W I L L I A M F L A U R A N C E 2 A N D C A , M . S O R L O S , A J R
"... SUMMARY Tropical deforestation is one of the most important components of global change. Rates of deforestation in Brazil, the nation with the single largest concentration of tropical forest on Earth, have fluctuated widely over the last twenty years. Based on local knowledge, such fluctuations hav ..."
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SUMMARY Tropical deforestation is one of the most important components of global change. Rates of deforestation in Brazil, the nation with the single largest concentration of tropical forest on Earth, have fluctuated widely over the last twenty years. Based on local knowledge, such fluctuations

Molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules,”

by Martin Karplus , J Andrew Mccammon - Nat Struct Biol, , 2002
"... It has been 25 years since the first molecular dynamics simulation of a macromolecule of biological interest was published 1 . The simulation concerned the bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI), which has served as the 'hydrogen molecule' of protein dynamics because of its small size ..."
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mean-square fluctuations versus residue number (introduced in ref. 1) became a standard part of the analysis of high-resolution structures, even though the contribution to the B-factors from overall translation and rotation as well as crystal disorder continues to be a concern in their interpretation

Financing Policy, Basis Risk, and Corporate Hedging: Evidence from Oil and Gas Producers

by G. David Haushalter - Journal of Finance , 2000
"... This paper studies the hedging policies of oil and gas producers between 1992 and 1994. My evidence shows that the extent of hedging is related to financing costs. In particular, companies with greater financial leverage manage price risks more extensively. My evidence also shows that the likelihood ..."
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. In particular, I investigate whether the fraction of production an oil and gas producer hedges against price fluctuations is related to its financing policy, tax status, compensation policy, ownership structure, and operating characteristics. I document a wide variation in hedging policies among oil and gas
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