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(Discussion Paper, 2013)When economists' subjective beliefs about the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test are internally consistent (i.e., satisfying Bayes' Rule), their beliefs about prostate ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)One of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to ‘promote gender equality and empower women.’ However, only 1% of official foreign aid is currently spent on gender equality and human rights. Using individual-level survey ... -
Effects of New Welfare Reform Strategies on Welfare Participation: Microdata Estimates from Canada (Discussion Paper, 2013)This paper introduces newly coded information describing province- and year-specific variation in work requirements, diversion, earning exemptions, and time limits. This new information reveals a large decline in the chance ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)There is now a large empirical literature on the effect of the aggregate inflation rate on (i) the dispersion of prices across goods or locations (relative price variability, or RPV) and (ii) the dispersion of inflation ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)Using search engine query data as a measure for public awareness of sexual health outcomes, this study extracts a measure of general interest in sexually transmitted disease for the United States (2004 – 2012). This trend ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)This paper addresses the issue of integrating agents with a variety of external resources and services, as found in enterprise computing environments. We propose an approach for interfacing agents and existing message ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)The role of structural breaks in long spans of ex-post real interest rates for ten industrialized countries is studied. First, the persistence of the real interest is assessed with newly proposed low-frequency tests of ... -
(Discussion Paper, 2013)Vampires are a prominent feature of modern culture. Past research identifies the ecological and economic relationship between vampires and living humans under the assumption that ‘representative agents’ are capable of ... -
An Agent-based Model of Interdisciplinary Science and the Evolution of Scientific Research Networks (Discussion Paper, 2013)This study proposes an agent-based model of the impact of research success on the structure of scientific communities. In the model, heterogeneous scientists scattered about a ‘social landscape’ influence each other through ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)In this thesis I describe the results of a web-based choice survey of homeowner preferences for attributes of behaviours and technologies to improve energy-efficiency in the home. The choice survey is novel in that respondents ...
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(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)Ever since laws were formed to protect intellectual property, disputes have raged over their impact. The rapid onslaught of “patent wars”, where companies turn to intellectual property litigation as a means to attack rivals, ...
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(Thesis, Master of Commerce, 2013)The export education industry is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide (Payne 2009) that sees millions of people travelling abroad every year (Weaver 2003). In New Zealand export education is the fifth largest export, ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)I examine the relationship between the strength of corporate governance and firm-level investment policies. While the link between governance and choice of investment policy has been examined by many, endogeneity in the ...
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(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)This paper examines the ‘outcomes’ of employing internal cleaning employees versus contract cleaning employees, employed in similar roles, in parallel organisations. In particular the focus of this research is in the areas ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Brand personality and brand relationships have both become important concepts in the branding literature, but there are some fundamental problems with the theory and research that supports the concepts. As such, the question ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)This thesis uses two unique microeconomic datasets to analyse the effectiveness of foreign aid on economic activity, where economic activity is measured using night light intensity. First, I create an innovative night ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)How does belonging fit into the Western travel ideal? When one reflects on the discourses of travel in the West the initial response seems simple: there is no belonging. From colonial expansion to modern tourism, from the ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)In the distributed multiagent systems discussed in this thesis, heterogeneous autonomous agents interoperate in order to achieve their goals. In such environments, agents can be embedded in diverse contexts and interact ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)International research has shown that individuals and companies in other countries do not always fully remove the data from their computer data storage devices before disposing of them. Typically this means when people are ... -
(Thesis, Master of Business, 2013)Since the 1980’s the value of brands from the consumers’ perspective has been a key area of interest, as both companies and researchers have recognized the importance of ensuring brands are, and remain successful in the ...
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