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The Fcc Spectrum Auctions: An Early Assessment, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

This paper analyzes six spectrum auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from July 1994 to May 1996. These auctions were simultaneous multiple-round auctions in which collections of licenses were auctioned simultaneously. This auction form proved remarkably successful. Similar items sold for similar prices and bidders successfully formed efficient aggregations of licenses. Bidding behavior differed substantially in the auctions. The extent of bidder competition and price uncertainty played an important role in determining behavior. Bidding credits and installment payments also played a major role in several of the auctions.

Synergies In Wireless Telephony: Evidence From The Broadband Pcs Auctions, Peter Cramton, Lawrence M. Ausubel, R. Preston Mcafee, John Mcmillan

Peter Cramton

We examine bid data from the first two broadband PCS spectrum auctions for evidence of value synergies. First, we estimate a benchmark regression for the determinants of final auction prices. Then, we include variables reflecting the extent to which bidders ultimately won or already owned the adjacent wireless properties. Consistent with geographic synergies in an ascending-bid auction, prices were higher when the highest-losing bidder had adjacent licenses. The footprints of winning bidders suggest that they were often successful in realizing these synergies.

Comparing Historical Sequences - A Powerful Tool For Causal Analysis. A Reply To John Goldthorpe's "Current Issues In Comparative Macro-Sociology", Dietrich Rueschemeyer, John Stephens

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

El Regreso A La Ciudad Construida, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La relación entre suelo urbano y ciudad es indisoluble; tan es así que durante mucho tiempo se las entendió como si fueran lo mismo. Por eso, originalmente, el desarrollo urbano fue concebido como el resultado de los cambios en los usos de suelo propuestos por la planificación urbana.

Si bien esta comprensión inicial perdura hasta ahora, no se puede negar la existencia de un avance en la comprensión de la temática urbana, que ha llevado a superar esta visión espacialista caracterizada por la sobre determinación de lo espacial a lo social. Pero también, por aquella antítesis que postula la llamada …

¿Dónde Esta El Centro Del Debate De La Descentralización?, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Se debe partir señalando la existencia de un momento de quiebre claramente definido: el año de 1995, cuando se aprueba una Reforma Constitucional que establece que el Ecuador es un país descentralizado y que obligatoriamente se debe repartir el 15 por ciento del Presupuesto Nacional entre los organismos del régimen seccional autónomo.

Sin duda que este hecho marca un hito en la descentralización, en tanto permite pensar que se trata del inicio de un movimiento contrario al proceso centralista -aún hegemónico- y definir la existencia de dos fases: la primera, a manera de antecedentes y, la segunda, en la que …

Social Capital And The Political Economy Of Our Discontent, Bob Edwards, Michael W. Foley

Bob Edwards

No abstract provided.

Escapte From Politics? Social Theory And The Social Capital Debate, Bob Edwards, Michael W. Foley

Bob Edwards

No abstract provided.

Neuroendocrine Aspects Of Primary Endogenous Depression Xv. Mathematical Modeling Of Nocturnal Melatonin Secretion In Major Depressives And Normal Controls, L. Kathleen Sekula, Joseph F. Lucke, E. Kevin Heist, R. Kenneth Czambel, Robert T. Rubin

Joseph Lucke

We previously reported a trend toward a higher mean nocturnal serum melatonin (MEL) concentration, based on 30-min blood sampling over 24 h, in 23 female definite endogenous depressives compared to 23 matched normal female control subjects, and no significant difference in 15 male depressives compared to their controls (Rubin et al., 1992). In both groups of patients vs. their controls, there also were trends toward an earlier MEL rise time, by about 30 min, and a later MEL peak time, by about 90 min. Because the offset of MEL secretion was not estimated in that study, the total duration of …

"Response." (To Ashis Nandy, "South Asian Politics: Modernity And The Landscape Of Clandestine And Incommunicable Selves.", Arjun Guneratne

Arjun Guneratne

No abstract provided.

Riskmap Food Security Baseline: Final Report For Lesotho, William G. Moseley, Julia Earl

William G Moseley

Baseline data on food economies in Lesotho.

Urban Public Library Directors: Who Are They? Where Did They Come From?, Ken Haycock, L. Mccallum

Ken Haycock

No abstract provided.

Reported Speech In Talking Race On Campus., Richard Buttny

Richard Buttny

No abstract provided.

"Visions Of Me In The Whitest Raw Light": Assimilation And Doxic Whiteness In Chang-Rae Lee's 'Native Speaker', Tim Engles

Tim Engles

In Chang-rae Lee's first novel, 'Native Speaker,' the protagonist is jolted by the death of his son and the subsequent departure of his wife into intensification of a lifelong identity crisis. The book's guiding metaphor, figured in Henry Park's job as a spy, cleverly elucidates the immigrant's stance as a watchful outsider in American society, but Henry's double life also figures largely in his equally representative struggles to decide for himself what kind of person he is. As a child of immigrant parents, Henry is, in Pierre Bourdieu's useful terms, endowed with a bifurcated "habitus," two sets of culturally induced …

How Effective Are The Things People Say To Apologize? Effects Of The Realization Of The Apology Speech Act., Steven J. Scher, John M. Darley

Steven J. Scher

The Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989a) has identified five components of an "apology speech act set": five strategies that speakers use to apologize. This study examines the effects of four of those strategies (illocutionary force indicating device, expression of responsibility, promise of forebearance, and offer of repair) on the judgments made by hearers about the speaker and about the apology. Each of the strategies is shown to have an independent effect in improving reactions to the speaker. Further, the magnitude of these effects appear to be roughly similar for each of the strategies. The things …

The Posner Argument For Transferring Health Spending From Old Women To Old Men, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Richard Posner suggests several arguments for increasing health care spending on males and reducing it on females in his book Aging and Old Age. I offer a new formalization of his verbal argument.

La Penuria De La Vivienda En El Ecuador, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En América Latina el déficit de vivienda, según la CEPAL, supera la cantidad de 25 millones de unidades. Solventar esta carencia de manera inmediata requeriría no menos de 125 mil millones de dólares. Si extrapolamos esta información para el caso ecuatoriano, se necesitaría más de 6 mil millones de dólares para satisfacer el déficit acumulado de un millón dos cientos mil residencias.

Riskmap Food Security Baseline: Final Report For Zimbabwe, William G. Moseley, Julia A. Earl

William G Moseley

Baseline data describing 25 different food economy zones in Zimbabwe. This information was collected and compiled as part of the Save the Children (UK) RiskMap project for Africa.

Advertising Strategies For Success, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.

Humor As A Presentational Device In Broadcast Public Service Announcements, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

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Stigma And Self-Fulfilling Expectations Of Criminality, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

In modelling crime, economists have focussed on the expected cost of government sanctions to the criminal, but private sanctions--- notably economic or social stigma--- may be just as important. In the model here, workers decide whether to commit crimes and employers decide how much to pay ex- convicts. In one equilibrium, individuals refrain from crime and economic stigma--- the wage loss from conviction--- is high. In a second, pareto- inferior equilibrium, individuals commit crimes and stigma is low, because employers realize that nonconviction does not imply noncriminality. The model may help to explain large shifts in crime, such as that …

Ciudad Y Comunicacián, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

The text deals with analyzing the theme about the relation between communication and city, in a double perspective: the city a mean of communication and the incorporation of the communicative dimension in urban policies. 80th perspectives have more sense, when the globalization procedures require the intemationalization of the city, a fortifying local government and the return to the constructed city, therefore, in a wide meaning; the communication acquires a new dimension for the urban development.

"Ni el patrimonio económico y cultural heredado del pasado, ni la importancia política y los medios financieros que el Estado atribuya a sus ciudades serán …

What You Need To Know About Upcs: Applying Bar Code Technology To Boost Marketing & Cut Costs, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.

Social Aspects Of Digital Libraries. Final Report To The National Science Foundation, Christine L. Borgman, Marcia J. Bates, Michele V. Cloonan, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Yasmin B. Kafai, Gregory H. Leazer, Anthony B. Maddox

Christine L. Borgman

Computer, Information Science, and Engineering Directorate; Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems; Information Technology and Organizations Program

Review Of Competition, Commitment, And Welfare By Kotaro Suzumura, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

A short review of a book on oligopoly theory.

Economics Of Time And Ignorance: 1996 Intro Survey, Mario Rizzo

Mario Rizzo

This is a review of the developments in Austrian-subjectivist economics during the period 1985-1996 from the perspective of the themes developed in the first-edition of "The Economics of Time and Ignorance." It is also a concise statement of a modern understanding of the classic ideas of Austrian economics with a view to seeing their connection to a broader set of perspectives in economics. (The version available here is the final draft of the text available in the book published by Routledge. This is available from Routledge as an e-book or from various Amazon.com sellers.)

The Struggle For Knowledge: The Case Of Emergent Oromo Studies, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

Taking the Oromo as historical actors, the emergent Oromo studies identify some deficiencies of "Ethiopian studies" that primarily focus on the Amhara and Tigray ethnic groups and their rulers, and ignore the history of the Oromo people. Many Ethiopian and Ethiopianist scholars do not recognize the positive cultural achievements of this people.' With their colonization and incorporation into Ethiopia, the Oromo could not develop independent institutions that would allow them to produce and disseminate their historical knowledge freely. Currently, they are fighting for national self-determination: to regain their political freedom and rebuild independent institutions.

Auditing An Academic Library Book Collection, Ken Wise, Jack E. Kiger

Ken Wise

Librarians may use attribute sampling to estimate the maximum portion of a population having an attribute of interest. Advantages of the technique are that the user may examine a very small portion of the population and make an estimate with very low but measurable risk of misstatement.

Οδηγος Ασφαλειας Παιδικων Χαρων, Yanni D. Afthinos

Yanni D Afthinos

Εκτίμηση ασφάλειας - επικινδυνότητα παιδικών χαρών

El Transporte: ¿Un Probelma O Una Relación Social?, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Las ciudades se nos presentan desde siempre como un gran centro de comunicación de los ciudadanos. De allí que el transporte juegue un papel comunicacional privilegiado: tanto que sus defectos pueden producir alteraciones en la funcionalidad de la ciudad o en la calidad de vida de su población.

Así, por ejemplo, en el país los accidentes de tránsito -por su magnitud, recurrencia y causas- han dejado de ser algo excepcional. Si partimos de la definición de accidentes en términos de una "indisposición repentina privativa del sentido o movimiento", convendremos que en el Ecuador hemos logrado desaparecer los accidentes en tanto …

"The Tax-Man Cometh: The Impact Of Revenue Collection On Subsistence Strategies In Chitwan Tharu Society.", Arjun Guneratne

Arjun Guneratne

Studies of peasant societies have drawn attention to the control of land as a centrally important aspect of peasant subsistence. However, many households of Tharu peasants in Chitwan, Nepal, during the first half of this century, assured themselves of subsistence, even where land was readily available, by eschewing control of land to work as servants for landholding households. In effect, they were landless by choice. Because labor was scarce, they could negotiate favorable terms, and avoid the taxation and exploitation by revenue collectors (jimidars) to which landholding peasants were subject. The jimidar, usually himself a Tharu, was, as agent of …