Riding the Waves

Riding the Waves of Emerging Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges for the CIO

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Riding with the ants

Isolates of Teratosphaeriaceae have frequently been found in the integument of attine ants, proving to be common and diverse in this microenvironment. The LSU phylogeny of the ant-isolated strains studied revealed that they cluster in two main lineages. The first was associated with the genus Xenopenidiella whereas the other represented two ant-isolated lineages sister to the taxa Penidiella ag...

Riding the South Sea Bubble

Riding the South Sea Bubble PETER TEMIN AND HANS-JOACHIM VOTH FORTHCOMING, AER, DECEMBER 2004. ABSTRACT: This paper presents a case study of a well-informed investor in the South Sea bubble. We argue that Hoare's Bank, a fledgling West End London banker, knew that a bubble was in progress and nonetheless invested in the stock; it was profitable to "ride the bubble." Using a unique dataset on da...

Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...