A fundamental aspect of harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces deals with various classes of real or complex-valued functions, such as the C classes of functions which are continuous and continuously differentiable up to order k, where k is a nonnegative integer. If k = 0, this simply means that the function is continuous. Of course continuity of a function makes sense on any metric space, or on...

This paper provides parametric estimates of technical change, e¢ ciency change, economies of scale, and total factor productivity growth for large banks (those with assets in excess of $1 billion) in the United States, over the period from 2000 to 2005. In doing so, we propose a distance function based primal total factor productivity growth index, which is valid under both perfect and imperfec...

NesC provides us with many useful additions to the standard C language. Much of these contributions would be beneficial to embedded systems at large, and not just sensor networks. Many papers talk about sensor networks becoming ubiquitous in the next few years. However, without leveraging existing embedded systems developers, this seems far fetched. There are several problems which must be over...

Using a large plant level data set, this paper carries out an econometric analysis of the environmental performance of multinational …rms in the gold mining industry worldwide. The aim of the analysis is to determine if, by looking at the actual environmental performance of …rms (as opposed to inferring such behavior from location decisions), we can shed any light on important questions in the ...

Let us consider two C closed homeomorphic manifolds M, N and two C functions φ : M → R, ψ : N → R, called measuring functions. The natural pseudodistance d between the pairs (M, φ), (N , ψ) is defined as the infimum of Θ(f) def = maxP∈M |φ(P ) − ψ(f(P ))|, as f varies in the set of all homeomorphisms from M onto N . In this paper we show that size functions allow us to get a lower bound for d. ...

In “Capital-Skill Complementarity and Inequality: A Macroeconomic Analysis,” Krusell et al. (2000) analyzed the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis as an explanation for the behavior of the U.S. skill premium. This paper shows that their model’s fit and the values of the estimated parameters are very sensitive to the data used: Alternative measures of the capital series predict skill premi...

where N ≥ 3, p ∈ ( 1, N+2 N−2 ) , V : R → R, J : R → RN×N are C functions. Here the symbol RN×N stands for the set of (N ×N) real matrices. Such a problem, at least in the case J ≡ I, where I is the identity matrix in RN×N , arises naturally when seeking standing waves of the nonlinear ∗Supported by MIUR, national project Variational methods and nonlinear differential equations †Supported by MI...

In many stated preference settings stakeholders will be uncertain as to their exact willingness-topay for a proposed environmental amenity. To accommodate this possibility analysts have designed elicitation formats with multiple bids and response options that allow for the expression of uncertainty. We argue that the information content flowing from such elicitation has not yet been fully and e...

A subjective expected utility agent is given information about the state of the world in the form of a set of possible priors. She is allowed to condition her prior on this information. A set of priors may be updated according to Bayes’ rule, prior-by-prior, upon learning that some state of the world has not obtained. We show that there exists no decision maker who obeys Bayes’ rule, conditions...

∗The authors would like to thank the Editor and a referee for some very thoughtful and constructive comments on an earlier draft of the paper. This research has been supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Grant No. DP0208333 and a Ph.D. Scholarship from the School of Business Systems, Monash University. All numerical results in the paper have been produced using the MATLAB software....