In order to curb environmental impact, absolute resource use reductions are urgently needed. To reach this goal, multi-scalar synergies and trade-offs in global resource use must be effectively addressed. We propose that better understanding the role of extractive economies— economies that extract raw material for export—in global resource use patterns is a prerequisite to identifying such syne...

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The rapidly developing, worldwide marketplace is leading to the geographical dispersion of production, assembly and distribution operations. This paper deals with three aspects of international logistics networks: strategic, tactical and operational. The strategic level designs the logistics network, including prescribing facility locations, production technologies and plant capacities. The tac...

In metal forming operations, the intensity and distribution of stresses at the tool/material interface have great influence on the pattern and mode of deformation. This is due to the effect of frictional forces in being resistive to material movements and hence affects material flow and the directionality of volume distribution of material inside die cavities. This paper explores the use of the...

Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. The central limit theorem 1 3. The normal approximation of the binomial distribution 2 4. The normal approximation of the mixed binomial distribution 4 5. The law of large numbers approximation of a mixed binomial distribution 6 6. Finding the mixed binomial distribution by using Monte Carlo simulations 6 6.

We develop a theoretical model of a network of intermediaries, which gives rise to heterogeneous financial norms and systemic vulnerabilities. The optimal behavior of each intermediary regarding its attitude toward risk, the quality of the projects that it undertakes, and the intermediaries it chooses to interact with, is affected by the behavior of its counterparties. These strategic network e...

In this document I address how the information-market equilibrium works in an economy with more than two periods by deriving the value of information in the limiting case of continuous time and infinite horizon. This is meant as a robustness check to show that complementarities obtain even when the model features interim dividend payouts, interim consumption and a long horizon. A further motiva...