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On Real Interest Rate Persistence: The Role of Breaks
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 ...
Can You Spare Some Change For Charity? Experimental Evidence On Verbal Cues And Loose Change Effects In A Dictator Game
There is some evidence from field studies and natural experiments that levels of charitable donation depend on the method in which donations are solicited. There is also some experimental evidence that spending on private ...
Are Courts Slow? Exposing and Measuring the Invisible Determinants of Case Disposition Time
This article analyses civil case disposition time by developing hypotheses to explain behavioral and structural determinants of so-called ‘delay’ and suggesting a novel methodology (‘Echronometrics’) to account for factors, ...
Efficiency Aspects of Government Secondary School Finances in New South Wales: Results from a Two-Stage Double-Bootstrap DEA at the School Level
This study measures the efficiency of government secondary schools in New South Wales, Australia, using a recently developed methodology of two-stage semi-parametric modeling. In contrast to previous research comparing ...
Optimization of energy-efficient transmission protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies are increasingly employed in recent years for monitoring purposes in various fields ranging from the engineering industry to our immediate home environments due to their ability ...
Investigating Perceived Ownership in Rubber and Third Hand Illusions Using Augmented Reflection Technology
Neuroplasticity can be explained as a change in the brain's wiring which is due to the changes in behaviour, environment and neural processes, as well as changes following bodily injury. In the Rubber Hand Illusion a ...
Understanding the matrix: Impacts of modification in indigenous grassland landscapes
Conversion of native vegetation to agricultural land is known to have a multitude of effects on ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, habitat fragmentation and alteration of resource availability. The concept of ...
Embedding agents in business applications using enterprise integration patterns
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 ...
Disclosure of the Persuasive Intent behind the Placement of Risky Products in Movies: Consequences for Cognitive and Affective Processing
The placement of ‘risky’ products, such as alcohol and tobacco, and their brand imagery in movies is used by some of their sellers for promotional campaigns. Drawing upon the extant literature on persuasion and product ...