This paper examines the role that the built environment – both micro-scale “neighborhood” design characteristics and meso-scale relative location – play in influencing motor vehicle ownership and use in a rapidly motorizing, developing city context: Santiago de Chile. The paper first answers the question, what role, if any, do factors such as dwelling unit density, land use mix, street design, ...

The high tech industry has played a critical role in the economic growth of Taiwan over the past two decades. The main success factor in the high tech industry is posited to be improving R&D efficiency and performance. This study utilizes an empirical study to provide valuable managerial insights when measuring the impact of R&D activities and performance representation in the Taiwanese high te...

This document is an on-line supplement to a recent paper (Carr and Crosby (2008)) entitled “A class of Lévy process models with almost exact calibration to both barrier and vanilla FX options”. OLS

in this paper, we intend to investigate the impact of privatization on economic growth in developing and transition economies. previous studies that have attempted to measure this relationship have conflicting results, some indicating a positive impact of privatization on growth, while others indicate a negative relationship. our study uses recent world bank data on privatization for 117 countr...

owing to the vital effects of future land use changes, it is necessary to predict land use growth pattern before any decision making by the authorities and decision makers. purpose of this research is to model land use change of kohmare scorch plain of shiraz province using ordinary least squares regression (ols) for pre-processing variables and modeling using neural networks. to perform this m...

The Chinese real estate industry has experienced rapid growth since China’s economic reform. Along with a booming industry, a third of purchased lands were left undeveloped in the last decade. Knowledge of real estate development time lags between land being purchased and property being occupied can enable policymakers to produce more effective policies and regulations to guide the real estate ...

This paper compares the forecasting performance of different models which have been proposed for forecasting in the presence of structural breaks. These models differ in their treatment of the break process, the parameters defining the model which applies in each regime and the out-of-sample probability of a break occurring. In an extensive empirical evaluation involving many important macroeco...