In a commentary on information transfer research, Schipper (1990) notes that when compared to whether information transfers exist or not, “so far little attention has been given to explaining how such transfers operate.” In this study we develop and test hypotheses about the economic determinants of information externalities suppliers experience at the time of their major customers’ information...

Since its release in early December 2006, the Iraq Study Group’s (ISG) military, political and diplomatic recommendations have generated wide-spread discussions. Unfortunately, the country’s economic recovery has received considerably less attention. Yet the country’s economic situation is quite dire. The ISG correctly notes that: (a) instead of meeting a target of 10 percent growth for 2006 on...

These are notes related to a 4-lecture minicourse given during June 10-11, 2012, at a workshop just preceeding the SIAM conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures in Seattle, WA, USA. The title of the workshop was “The stability of coherent structures and patterns,” and these four lectures concern stability theory for linear PDEs. The two other parts of the workshop are “Using AUTO f...

The following notes are based on a lecture given at the “Summer School on the CPTand Lorentz-violating Standard Model Extension”, organized by the IUCSS and held in Bloomington, IN from June 3–9, 2012. The goal of this talk is to address the following questions: what issues can arise when dynamical tensor fields are introduced into a theory? And how does the presence of gravity influence these ...