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The Productivity Effects Of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates From Hungary, Romania, Russia, And Ukraine, J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our estimates are robust to alternative functional forms, but sensitive to how we control for selection. Our preferred random growth models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia it lowers it 3%. …

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The Southeastern Librarian

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Using Scenario-Based Training To Teach Single Pilot Resource Management Related To The Use Of The Brs Parachute, Shayna Danielle Strally

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The Ballistic Recovery System is an emergency parachute for single engine aircraft which, when released, lowers the aircraft to the ground to prevent terrain collision. This study sought to examine the effects of scenario-based training on pilot’s use of the BRS. Of particular interest was the point at which the pilot decides to deploy the BRS. Single pilot resource management was included as a training objective, as it encompasses relevant cognitive skills such as decision making and situational awareness. The results showed participants in the scenario-based training condition performed significantly better than participants in a traditional training condition on several …

The Impact Of Significant Substantive Provisions Of The South Carolina Trust Code, S. Alan Medlin

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Struggling With Deliberative Secrecy, Jury Independence, And Jury Reform, Diane E. Courselle

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Finding The Middle Ground: Krestovskii, Tur, And The Power Of Ambivalence In Nineteenth-Century Russian Women's Prose" By J.M. Gheith, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Measuring Potential Output And Output Gap And Macroeconomic Policy: The Case Of Kenya, Angelica E. Njuguna, Stephen N. Karingi, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Economics Working Papers

Measuring the level of an economy.s potential output and output gap are essential in identifying a sustainable non-inflationary growth and assessing appropriate macroeconomic policies. The estimation of potential output helps to determine the pace of sustainable growth while output gap estimates provide a key benchmark against which to assess inflationary or disinflationary pressures suggesting when to tighten or ease monetary policies. These measures also help to provide a gauge in the determining the structural fiscal position of the government. This paper attempts to measure Kenya.s potential output and output gap using alternative statistical techniques and structural methods. Estimation of potential …

Economic Rights, Human Development Effort And Institutions, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Economics Working Papers

This paper focuses on the link between economic rights and institutions. Simple analysis of data is used to demonstrate countries' human development effort in advancing economics rights of the citizens. A country's human development effort is evaluated on the basis of the well-being of the poorest members of the society. An analysis of data reveals that there is a wide variation in countries' pro-poor stance. While it is accepted that positive rights are pro-poor, this paper argues that so too are negative economic rights and in fact the two are complements rather than substitutes. Classifying countries into human development income …

The Aggregate Demand For Private Health Insurance Coverage In The U.S., Carmelo Giaccotto, Rexford E. Santerre, Francis W. Ahking

Economics Working Papers

This paper estimates the aggregate demand for private health insurance coverage in the U.S. using an error-correction model and by recognizing that people are without private health insurance for voluntary, structural, frictional, and cyclical reasons and because of public alternatives. Insurance coverage is measured both by the percentage of the population enrolled in private health insurance plans and the completeness of the insurance coverage. Annual data for the period 1966-1999 are used and both short and long run price and income elasticities of demand are estimated. The empirical findings indicate that both private insurance enrollment and completeness are relatively inelastic …

Strategic Behavior In Day-Ahead And Real-Time Markets For Electricity: Offer Cost Or Payment Cost Minimization?, Nicholas Shunda

Economics Working Papers

This study compares the procurement cost-minimizing and productive efficiency performance of the auction mechanism used by independent system operators (ISOs) in wholesale electricity auction markets in the U.S. with that of a proposed alternative. The current practice allocates energy contracts as if the auction featured a discriminatory final payment method when, in fact, the markets are uniform price auctions. The proposed alternative explicitly accounts for the market clearing price during the allocation phase. We find that the proposed alternative largely outperforms the current practice on the basis of procurement costs in the context of simple auction markets featuring both day-ahead …

35 U.S.C. § 287(C): Language Slightly Beyond Intent, Fariba Sirjani, Dariush Keyhani

Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal

No abstract provided.

F05rs Sgb No. 6 (Reconsideration Bill), Bergeron

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

To amend Chapters 4 and 6 of the Student Senate Rules of Order relative to reconsideration of legislative instruments; to provide for instances in which legislation can be reconsidered; to provide for reconsideration in the order of business

Modulation Of Yeast Genome Expression In Response To Defective Rna Polymerase Iii-Dependent Transcription, Christine Conesa, Roberta Ruotolo, Pascal Soularue, Tiffany A. Simms, David Donze, André Sentenac, Giorgio Dieci

Faculty Publications

We used genome-wide expression analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to explore whether and how the expression of protein-coding, RNA polymerase (Pol) II-transcribed genes is influenced by a decrease in RNA Pol III-dependent transcription. The Pol II transcriptome was characterized in four thermosensitive, slow-growth mutants affected in different components of the RNA Pol III transcription machinery. Unexpectedly, we found only a modest correlation between altered expression of Pol II-transcribed genes and their proximity to class III genes, a result also confirmed by the analysis of single tRNA gene deletants. Instead, the transcriptome of all of the four mutants was characterized by increased …

Tot Capita Tot Sententiae: An Extension Or Misapplication Of Rawlsian Justice, Giancarlo Panagia

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Refining The Vote: Suggested Amendments To The Help America Vote Act's Provisional Balloting Standards, Gerald M. Feige

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Pennsylvania's Treatment Of Telecommunications Towers For The Purpose Of Real Property Taxation, Bradley N. Sprout

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Creating A Perfect Human Is Not So Perfect: The Case For Restricting Genetic Enhancement Research, Sarah M. Markwood

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Prizes Versus Wages With Envy And Pride, Pradeep Dubey, John Geanakoplos, Ori Haimanko

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We show that if agents are risk neutral, prizes outperform wages when there is sufficient pride and envy relative to the noisiness of performance. If agents are risk averse, prizes are a necessary supplement to wages (as bonuses).

Alumnews, Fall 2005, Alumni Association, Wright State University

AlumNews

Twelve page issue of the AlumNews newsletter. This newsletter focuses on news about programs, events, and activities for alumni from Wright State University.

A Behavioral Science Analysis Of Sarbanes-Oxley's Certification Requirements --The Right Kind Of Deterrence?, Betty Joan Thurber

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Case Commentaries

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Court-Based Mediation In The Netherlands: Research, Evaluation And Future Expectations, Bert Niemeijer, Machteld Pel

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Prosecutorial Waiver Into Adult Criminal Court: A Conflict Of Interests Violation Amounting To The States' Legislative Abrogation Of Juveniles' Due Process Rights, Sally T. Green

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Making Peace With Criminals: An Economic Approach To Assessing Punishment Options In The Colombian Peace Process, Katie Kerr

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Pasquantino Plea: The Unfortunate Decline Of The Revenue Rule And The Imprudent Extraterritorial Expansion Of The American Wire Fraud Statute To Enforce Foreign Tax Law, Joshua Shore

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cellular Efflux Of Auxin Catalyzed By The Arabidopsis Mdr/Pgp Transporter Atpgp1, Markus Geisler, Joshua J. Blakeslee, Rodolphe Bouchard, Ok Ran Lee, Vincent Vincenzetti, Anindita Bandyopadhyay, Boosaree Titapiwatanakun, Wendy Ann Peer, Aurèlien Bailly, Elizabeth L. Richards, Karin F.K. Ejendal, Aaron P. Smith, Célia Baroux, Ueli Grossniklaus, Axel Müller, Christine A. Hrycyna, Robert Dudler, Angus S. Murphy, Enrico Martinoia

Faculty Publications

Directional transport of the phytohormone auxin is required for the establishment and maintenance of plant polarity, but the underlying molecular mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. Plant homologs of human multiple drug resistance/P-glycoproteins (MDR/PGPs) have been implicated in auxin transport, as defects in MDR1 (AtPGP19) and AtPGP1 result in reductions of growth and auxin transport in Arabidopsis (atpgp1, atpgp19), maize (brachytic2) and sorghum (dwarf3). Here we examine the localization, activity, substrate specificity and inhibitor sensitivity of AtPGP1. AtPGP1 exhibits non-polar plasma membrane localization at the shoot and root apices, as well as polar localization above the root apex. Protoplasts from …

Intruder Level And Deformation In The Sd-Pair Shell Model, Yan A.N. Luo, Chairul Bahri, Feng Pan, V. G. Gueorguiev, Jerry P. Draayer

Faculty Publications

The influence of the intruder level on nuclear deformation is studied within the framework of the nucleon-pair shell model, truncated to an SD-pair subspace. The results suggest that the intruder level has a tendency to reduce the deformation for nuclei in lower and middle shells, and plays an important role in determining the onset of rotational behavior. © World Scientific Publishing Company.

Limitations On The Utility Of Exact Master Equations, G. W. Ford, R. F. O'Connell

Faculty Publications

The low temperature solution of the exact master equation for an oscillator coupled to a linear passive heat bath is known to give rise to serious divergences. We now show that, even in the high temperature regime, problems also exist, notably the fact that the density matrix is not necessarily positive. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Entropy Of A Quantum Oscillator Coupled To A Heat Bath And Implications For Quantum Thermodynamics, G. W. Ford, R. F. O'Connell

Faculty Publications

The free energy of a quantum oscillator in an arbitrary heat bath at temperature T is given by a "remarkable formula" which involves only a single integral. This leads to a corresponding simple result for the entropy. The low-temperature limit is examined in detail and explicit results are obtained both for the case of an Ohmic heat bath and a radiation heat bath. More general heat bath models are also examined. In all cases it is found that the entropy vanishes at zero temperature, in conformity with the third law of thermodynamics (Nernst's theorem). © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights …

Classical And Quantum General Relativity: A New Paradigm, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

Faculty Publications

We argue that recent developments in discretizations of classical and quantum gravity imply a new paradigm for doing research in these areas. The paradigm consists in discretizing the theory in such a way that the resulting discrete theory has no constraints. This solves many of the hard conceptual problems of quantum gravity. It also appears as a useful tool in some numerical simulations of interest in classical relativity. We outline some of the salient aspects and results of this new framework. © Springer-Verlag 2005.