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... broadening the definition ofthe decision-making unit.’ Their work and the work of others suggests that living arrangements may reflect bargaining between the elderly and their children.* To ... determinants of living arrangements at a point in time are, there- fore, quite likely to be correlated. Inthe parlance of discrete choice models, this means that the assumption ofthe independence ... associate professor ofeconomicsinthe Department of Economics and a member ofthe Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University. Laurence J. Kotlikoff is professor of economics...
... the gain: in this way the number of offenses, 0,couldbe reduced almost at will. However, an in- crease in p increases the social cost of offenses through its effect on the cost of combating offenses, ... that the prob-to the earnings of prisonment and pos-kegative relation for the sum isfixed, isin the regard to the profit of the y punishments should al-ount ofthe fine should bef the offender's ... nevertheless, a first approximation to the directsocial cost. If the theft or fraud industry is "competitive," the sum ofthe value of the criminals' time input—including the time...
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... onto the witness stand totestify against themselves. Between the time of its ratification and the onset of the project of legibility, there was a drˆole de guerre concerning the meaning of the ... though, owing in part to its deeper roots inthe English com-mon law tradition, there was somewhat more flesh on the bones ofthe self-incrimination privilege in advance ofthe statebuilding era ... (1905) in which the U.S. Supreme Court invalidateda New York State law limiting the working hours of bakers on the grounds that the statuteviolated the liberty ofcontract as vouchsafed by the...
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... with inthe treatment of VP-eUipsis, perhaps at the cost of some degree of the- oretical inelegance. However, this aspect was crucial for handling the gapping data, since the infelicity of gapping ... representations: inthe case of parallel constructions, the source resided inthe propo- sitional representation; inthe case of non-parallel con- structions, the source had been integrated into the dis- ... Meeting ofthe Linguistic Soci- ety of America, January. Nancy Levin and Ellen Prince. 1982. Gapping and causal implicature. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America....
... existing relationships ofthe intermediary with the business, the business owner, or other involvedparties. The intermediary then uses this information about the initial quality ofthe small business ... to obtain for small businesses inthe early 1990s than inthe late 1980s.A number of hypotheses ofthe decline in credit have been tested, including the effects of implementation ofthe Basle-Accord ... by the one or more ofthe inside owners, giving the financial institution recourse against their ‘personal wealth inthe event the loan is not repaid. In many cases, the personal assets of the...
... their costs of hosting systems in their own data centers, should be many times the original investment in this area.”2 The language inthe budget makes three key points: (1) up-front investment ... Because ofthe cost of parallel IT operations (i.e., cloud and non-cloud), the shorter the server migration schedule, the greater the economic benefits.These findings, in turn, lead to the following ... that the cloud computing business model can work in the federal government; i.e., that it can achieve its key objective of enabling significant cost savings. These steps include promoting information...
... letting me use their games.8 ESSAYS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIC INTERACTIONDISSERTATIONPresented in Partial Fulfillment ofthe Requirements for the Degree of Doc tor of ... PeckProfessor John Kagel AdviserProfessor Stephen Cosslett Graduate Program in Economics Before proceeding, let us briefly sketch the design ofthe experiment as well as the main findings. The main ... the boundary of the parameter space. Instead, we look at the marginal posteriors over elements (orcombinations of elements) of θ. The marginal posteriors over pNRN+ pNRA (the proportion of...