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Issues of Fairness in Dispute Settlement
(2008-06-09)
We first discuss what fairness may mean in the context of the dispute settlement process, noting the crucial relation between fairness in dispute settlement and the functioning of the trading system as a whole. We explore ...
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment
(2006)
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test comparatively four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM), Premium, ...
Teaching Key Competencies in Liberal Arts Education
(Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Company, 2001)
The study of the liberal arts provides an exemplary arena for students to become active learners. The complexity of modern society requires a broader understanding of societal problems rather than a specialized one. Real ...
The correlation between price and output changes when there are many goods
(Elsevier, 1980-08)
It is shown that competition in the production of many goods implies a positive correlation between the elements of a vector of changes in normalized prices and the corresponding vector of changes in outputs.
Feedback And Efficiency In ATM Networks
(1996)
Admission control and congestion control can provide performance guarantees in ATM networks. However some users may not be able to describe their traffic accurately enough for the network to provide these guarantees. By ...
Congressional campaign effects on candidate recognition and evaluation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Agathon Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1980-03)
To date, most congressional scholars have relied upon a standard model of American electoral behavior developed in the presidential setting. This research extends our knowledge of Congressmen's incumbency advantages and ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?*
(2006-04-06)
Development implies that the efficiency of local firms converges to that of firms in advanced economies. We examine this using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all industrial firms in the Czech Republic and Russia. We ...
Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Experimental Evidence
(MIT Press, 2000)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities and decreases in the costs of computers and communication networks have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. In one dimension, traditional pricing ...
Pricing Information Bundles in a Dynamic Environment
(2001)
We explore a scenario in which a monopolist producer of information goods seeks to maximize its profits in a market where consumer demand shifts frequently and unpredictably. The producer is free to set an arbitrarily ...