Worcester, Next Nine Exits

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A data warehouse typically differs from an OLTP database in terms of both significantly larger sizes for data pages as well as in the volume of data inserted in bulk. The traditional B+ Tree and its variants, while still a popular candidate for supporting point and range queries, can become very memory intensive for insert and delete operations under these more stringent requirements. Since typ...

Entrepreneurial Exits and Innovation

W examine how initial public offerings (IPOs) and acquisitions affect entrepreneurial innovation as measured by patent counts and forward patent citations. We construct a firm-year panel data set of all venture capital-backed biotechnology firms founded between 1980 and 2000, tracked yearly through 2006. We address the possibility of unobserved self-selection into exit mode by using coarsened e...

Worcester Slaughterhouse Account

§1. The text published in this note (for images and full transliteration, see the CDLI entry http://cdli.ucla.edu/ texts/P218067.html) was brought to my attention by Jordan Love, Curatorial Assistant at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA. Ms. Love exhibited great patience in dealing with my several requests for better images of the substantial tablet; despit...

Optimal Stopping with Forced Exits

We consider a continuous time optimal stopping problem with multiple entries and forced exits. The value for such an optimization problem with a general payoff function is solved in closed form under the assumption that the state process is a geometric Brownian motion and the forced exits come in according to a Poisson process. The effect due to the forced exits is analyzed. It is shown that th...

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