Within the affiliated private-values paradigm, we develop a tractable empirical model of equilibrium behaviour at first-price, sealed-bid auctions that admits a general dependence structure. The model is nonparametrically identified, but estimating the primitives is plagued by the curse of dimensionality when the number of bidders is even modestly large, so we develop a semiparametric estimatio...

Leader ship versus Management : Although some managers are able to influence followers to work toward the achievement of organizational goals, the conferring of formal authority upon a manager does not necessarily make that individual a leader. Yes, that individual has authority, but whether or not they are able to influence their subordinates may depend on more that just that authority. Not al...

Lead time reduction is a key concern of many industrial buyers of capital facilities given current economic conditions. Supply chain initiatives in manufacturing settings have led owners to expect that dramatic reductions in lead time are possible in all phases of their business, including the delivery of capital materials. Further, narrowing product delivery windows and increasing pressure to ...

Nearly 17% of the female residential students of Dhaka University are substance abusers. Commonly used substances are cannabis (44%) and phensidyl (44%) while sedative ranks second (32%). Majority (87%) of the respondents procure them through friends and associates. Nearly 40% respondents perceive easy availability to be the main reason of abuse followed by peer pressure (26%) and depression re...

The fingerprint image acquired using a sensor is impacted by several factors including the imaging technology, platen area, sensing resolution, etc. Due to these factors, fingerprint images obtained using different sensors can be significantly different [1]. Another factor that impacts the photometric and geometric characteristics of a fingerprint image is the acquisition methodology that is em...

We present a fast and effective bidding strategy for the Trading Agent Competition in Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM). In TAC SCM, manufacturers compete to procure computer parts from suppliers, and then sell assembled computers to customers in reverse auctions. To address the bidding problem, an agent decides how many computers to sell and at what prices to sell them. We propose a greedy sol...

In the last several years, remote sensing technology has opened up the possibility of performing large scale building detection from satellite imagery. Our work is some of the first to create population density maps from building detection on a large scale. The scale of our work on population density estimation via high resolution satellite images raises many issues, that we will address in thi...

Despite decades of support for international food assistance programs by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Food for Peace, relatively little is known about the commodity pipeline and management issues these programs face in post-conflict and politically volatile settings. Based on an audit of the program's commodity tracking system and interviews with 13 key progra...

This paper studies the effect of a subsidy (or tax) on a market where a downstream manufacturer uses a competitive tender to procure inputs from upstream suppliers. Subsidizing input production can result in input price decreases that are greater than the effective decrease in marginal costs. That is, overshifting occurs. When the size of the subsidy is not too large, the downstream firm can en...

The central banks of small open economies have to procure the proper operation of the payments system for transactions with the rest of the world. They do so facing the constraint of a limited stock of international reserves. To make ends meet, they usually rely on three instruments: the choice of an exchange rate regime, the regulation of the foreign exchange transactions of commercial banks a...