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In recent years, several new architectures have been developed for supporting multimedia applications such as digital video and audio. However, quality-of-service (QoS) routing is an important element that is still missing from these architectures. In this paper, we consider a number of issues in QoS routing. We first examine the basic problem of QoS routing, namely, finding a path that satisfi...

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This paper reviews both theoretical and empirical studies of financial transmission rights (FTRs) in the major U.S. wholesale power markets and provides a simple illustrative two-stage model to study the competitive behaviors of electricity generators (wholesale power sellers) and load serving entities (LSEs)(wholesale power buyers) and the welfare effects of FTRs in the restructuring U.S. whol...

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Comments of the General Electric Company on the U . S . Environmental Protection Agency ’ s Model Calibration : Modeling of PCB

In accordance with Peer Review process for US EPA's Model Calibrati on Report (MCR) for the Housatonic River (dated December 2004), I am enclosing a document entitled Comments of the General Electric Company on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Model Calibration: Modeling of PCB Contamination in the Housatonic River, which was prepared on GE's behalf by Quantit ative Environmental Anal...

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We document the extent of measurement errors in the basic data set on police used in the literature on the effect of police on crime. Analyzing medium to large U.S. cities over 1960-2010, we obtain measurement error corrected estimates of the police elasticity. The magnitudes of our estimates are similar to those obtained in the quasi-experimental literature, but our approach yields much greate...