The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient than firms in western Germany. The...

Recall that some of the unknown parameters in our brand sales model are specified as categoryand brand-specific while others are not (see Equation 6 in the paper). To estimate this model we have data available for 2,831 brands over a period of 21 quarters starting in quarter 4/2000 until quarter 4/2005. Since the brand sales model includes lagged sales the first quarter is inherently lost. In a...

A conjecture of Batyrev and Manin relates arithmetic properties of varieties with ample anticanonical class to geometric invariants. We analyze the geometry underlying these invariants using the Minimal Model Program and then apply our results to primitive Fano threefolds.

A balanced ternary design of order v with block size three, index 2 and P2 = 1 is a collection of multi-subsets of size 3 (of type { x, y, z} or {x, x, y }) called blocks, in which each unordered pair of distinct elements occurs twice possibly in one block and in which each element is repeated in just one block. So there are precisely v blocks of type {x, x, y}. Necessarily v == 0 (mod 3). We d...

Since there is no model available for mixed differential-mode and common-mode transmission, this report gives a measurement setup to determine the channel transfert function of the differential-mode and common-mode channels, as well as the leaked channel from the differential-mode to the common-mode and conversely at the transmitting end and the receiving end. This measurement setup consists of...

Triple arrays are a class of designs introduced by Agrawal in 1966 for two-way elimination of heterogeneity in experiments. In this paper we investigate their existence and their connection to other classes of designs, including balanced incomplete block designs and balanced grids.

An experimental study of a balanced mixer based on 2A116A-1 diodes was carried out.Conversion losses were measured in the input frequency range 2450 ± 45 MHz during downconversion to an intermediate 2125 MHz. Conversion loss does not exceed 20 dB anarrow band 2440±10 The amplitude characteristic taken, from which itcan be seen that it is linear for signals up 0 dBm (1 mW). dependence conversion...