Making-or Picking-Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies

Picking the winners

We analyze the problem of choosing the w contestants who will win a competition within a group of n > w competitors when all jurors commonly observe who the w best contestants are, but they may be biased. We study conditions on the con…guration of the jury so that it is possible to induce the jurors to always choose the best contestants, whoever they are. If the equilibrium concept is dominant ...

Deficits, Debt Financing, Monetary Policy and Inflation in Developing Countries: Internal or External Factors? Evidence from Iran

This paper focuses on internal and external factors, which influence the inflation rate in developing countries. A monetary model of inflation rate, capable of incorporating both monetary and fiscal policies as well as other internal and external factors, was developed and tested on Iranian data. It was found that, over the long run, a higher exchange rate leads to a higher price and that the f...

Picking Winners Using Integer Programming

We consider the problem of selecting a portfolio of entries of fixed cardinality for a winner take all contest such that the probability of at least one entry winning is maximized. This framework is very general and can be used to model a variety of problems, such as movie studios selecting movies to produce, drug companies choosing drugs to develop, or venture capital firms picking start-up co...

the effects of cognitive strategies- note making and underlining- on iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension

هدف از انجام این مطالعه ، بررسی اثرات استفاده از استراتژی های شناختی یعنی "نت برداری" و "زیر خط کردن" بر روی عملکرد درک مطلب زبان آموزان ایرانی می باشد. به این منظور، 60 زبان آموز دختر سال چهارم دبیرستان از طریق آزمون پیشرفت زبان انگلیسی (نلسون)، از یک جامعه آماری بزرگتر انتخاب شدند. سپس به صورت تصادفی به سه گروه که هر گروه شامل ?0 دانش آموز همسان بود، تقسیم شدند: دو گروه آزمایش(گروه "نت برداری...

Wallpapers in Historic Preservation