Esther Hauk, Maria Saez Marti, On the cultural transmission of corruption, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 107 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education effort exerted by parents which depends on the distribution of ethics in the population and on expectations about future policies. We propose some policy interventions which via parents' efforts have long-lasting effects on corruption and show the success of intensive education campaigns. Educating the young is a key element in reducing corruption successfully. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: D10, J13. |
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Henri Loubergé, Stéphane Villeneuve, Marc Chesney, Long-term risk management of nuclear waste: a real options approach, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 27 (1), 2002. (Journal Article)
In this paper, we investigate the optimal timing for deep geological disposal of nuclear waste. Our model is based on the real options approach to investment under uncertainty. In this context, the problem is similar to the optimal exercise policy for a perpetual American spread option. The potential usefulness of such a model for actual decision-making on a sensitive issue is illustrated by some numerical simulations. |
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Sybille Sachs, Wie aus Anspruch Mehrwert wird: Warum Stakeholder-Management eine strategische Führungsaufgabe ist, io management, Vol. 11, 2002. (Journal Article)
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Elia Yuste, Adding a language technology flavour to a diversified quality-geared process of translating, In: First International Conference on Quality Issues in Translation, Portsmouth, UK, November 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
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Elia Yuste, MT and the Swiss language service providers: an analysis and training perspective, In: Proceedings of the II International Workshop on Teaching Machine Translation (TMT), Manchester, UK, November 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
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Roland Bénabou, Marek Pycia, Marek G Pycia, Dynamic inconsistency and self-control: a planner-doer interpretation, Economics Letters, Vol. 77 (3), 2002. (Journal Article)
We show that Gul and Pesendorfer’s [Econometrica 69 (2001) 1403] representation result for preferences with temptation and self-control can be reexpressed in terms of a costly intrapersonal conflict between a Planner and Doer, as in Thaler and Shefrin [J. Political Econ. 89 (1981) 392] and psychologists’ standard view of self-control problems. |
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André C. Wohlgemuth, Zukunft der Unternehmensberatung: Wettstreit zwischen «Industrie» und «Profession»., In: Beratertag 2002 Deutschland-Österreich-Schweiz, Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberater BDU. 2002. (Conference Presentation)
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Thorsten Hens, Igor V Evstigneev, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, Market selection of financial trading strategies: global stability, Mathematical Finance, Vol. 12 (4), 2002. (Journal Article)
In this paper we analyze the long‐run dynamics of the market selection process among simple trading strategies in an incomplete asset market with endogenous prices. We identify a unique surviving financial trading strategy. Investors following this strategy asymptotically gather total market wealth. This result generalizes findings by Blume and Easlcy (1992) to any complete or incomplete asset market. |
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M Kotrla, F Slanina, Jakub Steiner, Dynamic scaling and universality in evolution of fluctuating random networks, EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol. 60 (1), 2002. (Journal Article)
We found that models of evolving random networks exhibit dynamic scaling similar to scaling of growing surfaces. It is demonstrated by numerical simulations of two variants of the model in which nodes are added as well as removed (Phys. Rev. Lett., 83 (1999) 5587). The averaged size and connectivity of the network increase as power laws in early times but later saturate. Saturated values and times of saturation change with paramaters controlling the local evolution of the network topology. Both saturated values and times of saturation obey also power law dependences on controlling parameters. Scaling exponents are calculated and universal features are discussed. |
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Elaine May Huang, Michael Terry, Elizabeth Mynatt, Kent Lyons, Alan Chen, Distributing event information by simulating word-of-mouth exchanges, In: Mobile HCI, Germany, 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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M Kosfeld, Stochastic Strategy Adjustment in Coordination Games, Economic Theory, Vol. 20 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
The paper explores a model of equilibrium selection in coordination games, where agents from an infinite population stochastically adjust their strategies to changes in their local environment. Instead of playing perturbed best-response, it is assumed that agents follow a rule of `switching to better strategies with higher probability'. This behavioral rule is related to bounded-rationality models of Rosenthal (1989) and Schlag (1998). Moreover, agents stay with their strategy in case they successfully coordinate with their local neighbors. Our main results show that both strict Nash equilibria of the coordination game correspond to invariant distributions of the process, hence evolution of play is not ergodic but instead depends on initial conditions. However, coordination on the risk-dominant equilibrium occurs with probability one whenever the initial fraction contains infinitely many agents, independent of the spatial distribution of these agents. |
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Simon Clematide, Selektive Evaluation von robusten Parsern, In: Konvens 2002, 6. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache, Proceedings, Saarbrücken, September 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
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David Hausheer, Implementation of the Cumulus Pricing Scheme for Differentiated Services in a Modular Internet Charging System, In: 12th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2002. 2002. (Conference Presentation)
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M Kosfeld, E Droste, M Voorneveld, A myopic adjustment process leading to best-reply matching, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 40 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
We analyze a myopic strategy adjustment process in strategic-form games. It is shown that the steady states of the continuous time limit, which is constructed assuming frequent play and slow adjustment of strategies, are exactly the best-reply matching equilibria, as discussed by Droste, Kosfeld, and Voorneveld (2000. Mimeo, Tilburg University). In a best-reply matching equilibrium every player ‘matches’ the probability of playing a pure strategy to the probability that this pure strategy is a best reply to the pure-strategy profile played by his opponents. We derive stability results for the steady states of the continuous time limit in 2×2 bimatrix games and coordination games. Analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the stochastic adjustment process in discrete time shows convergence to minimal curb sets of the game. Moreover, absorbing states of the process correspond to best-reply matching equilibria of the game. |
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Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Michael Hess, Kaarel Kaljurand, Mare Koitand, Neeme Kahusk, Kadri Vider, Terminology as Knowledge in Answer Extraction, In: TKE-2002: 6th International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, Nancy, France, August 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
It is well known that one of the greatest hurdles in automatically processing technical documentation is the large amount of speci?c
terminology that characterizes these domains. Terminology poses two major challenges to the developers of NLP applications: how to identify domain speci?c terms in the documents and how to ef?ciently process them. In this paper we will present methodologies that we have used to extract and bootstrap a terminological database and its usage in an answer extraction system.
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Mark Klein, Abraham Bernstein, Searching for services on the semantic web using process ontologies, In: The Emerging Semantic Web - Selected papers from the first Semantic Web Working Symposium, IOS, Amsterdam, p. 159 - 172, August 2002. (Book Chapter)
The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components, process models, or service organizations), as opposed to simply useful documents, is becoming increasingly critical in many domains. As the sheer number of such services increases it will become increasingly more important to provide tools that allow people (and software) to quickly find the services they need, while minimizing the burden for those who wish to list their services with these search engines. This can be viewed as a critical enabler of the ‘friction-free’ markets of the ‘new economy’. Current service retrieval technology is, however, seriously deficient in this regard. The information retrieval community has focused on the retrieval of documents, not services per se, and has as a result emphasized keyword-based approaches. Those approaches achieve fairly high recall but low precision. The software agents and distributed computing communities have developed simple ‘frame-based’ approaches for ‘matchmaking’ between tasks and on-line services increasing precision at the substantial cost of requiring all services to be modeled as frames and only supporting perfect matches. This paper proposes a novel, ontology-based approach that employs the characteristics of a process-taxonomy to increase recall without sacrificing precision and computational complexity of the service retrieval process. |
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Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Discovering Services: Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval, In: The 'Web Services, E-Business and Semantic Web Workshop' at the fourteenth international Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE-2002), August 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
The ability to rapidly locate useful on-line services (e.g. software applications, software components), as opposed to simply useful documents, is becoming increasingly critical in many domains. Current service retrieval technology is, however, notoriously prone to low precision. This paper describes a novel service retrieval approached based on the sophisticated use of process ontologies. Our preliminary evaluations suggest that this approach offers qualitatively higher retrieval precision than existing (keyword and table-based) approaches without sacrificing recall and computational tractability/scalability.
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Abraham Bernstein, Scott Clearwater, Shawndra Hill, Claudia Perlich, Foster Provost, Discovering Knowledge from Relational Data Extracted from Business News, In: Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM 2002) at the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2002. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
Thousands of business news stories (including press releases, earnings reports, general business news, etc.) are released each day. Recently, information technology advances have partially automated the processing of documents, reducing the amount of text that must be read. Current techniques (e.g., text classification and information extraction) for full-text analysis for the most part are limited to discovering information that can be found in single documents. Often, however, important information does not reside in a single document, but in the relationships between information distributed over multiple documents.
This paper reports on an investigation into whether knowledge can be discovered automatically from relational data extracted from large corpora of business news stories. We use a combination of information extraction, network analysis, and statistical techniques. We show that relationally interlinked patterns distributed over multiple documents can indeed be extracted, and (specifically) that knowledge about companies’ interrelationships can be discovered. We evaluate the extracted relationships in several ways: we give a broad visualization of related companies, showing intuitive industry clusters; we use network analysis to ask who are the central players, and finally, we show that the extracted interrelationships can be used for important tasks, such as classifying companies by industry membership. |
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Guruduth Banavar, Abraham Bernstein, Software Infrastructure and Design Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing Applications, Communication of the ACM, Vol. 45 (12), 2002. (Journal Article)
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David Seidl, Stimulating inconsistencies: strategic foresight from a constructivist perspective, In: International conference on Probing the Future: Developing Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. . 2002. (Conference Presentation)
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