We examine the participation of public and private …rms in merger waves and their outcomes. We document that public …rms participate more in mergers than private …rms and are more cyclical in their acquisition decisions. Public …rms are also impacted more by macro factors including credit spreads and industry returns. Acquired plants gain more in productivity on average and the improvement is g...

This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where heterogeneous …rms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for new job opportunities. Di¤erent …rms, even those with the same productivity, typically o¤er di¤erent contracts. Equilibrium …nds workers never quit from higher productivity …rms to lower productivity …rms, but turnover is ine¢...

Relatively little is known about the epidemiology and factors underlying susceptibility to childhood rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS). To better characterize genetic susceptibility to childhood RMS, we evaluated the role of family history of cancer using data from the largest case-control study of RMS and the Utah Population Database (UPDB). RMS cases (n = 322) were obtained from the Children's Oncology ...

We study the rms peculiar velocity of clusters as a convenient statistic to put constraints on cosmological models. This statistic is easy to compute theoretically given a model for the power spectrum; we show that with some assumptions it can be directly related to the quantity Ω 0 σ8. We develop a likelihood method for estimating the rms peculiar velocity of clusters from line-of-sight veloci...

Bulk micromachining in silicon and glass wafers and subsequent silicon-to-glass anodic bonding have been used for the realization of an electrostatic rms-to-dc converter. A suspended membrane has been designed for: large dynamic operating range (detection limit by minimum mechanical-thermal noise and high value of the pull-in voltage), maximum bandwidth (low series resistance, high second harmo...

Introduction: One of the possible techniques to cope with the restrictions imposed by llow supply voltages is instantaneous companding [l], which is an inherent characteristic of translinear (TL) filters [2], also called exponential state-space filters [3]. TL filters exploit the exponential large-signal behaviour of the bipolar, or weak inversion MOS, transistor both for an expanding capacitan...

This project involves the design of a CMOS RF RMS Detector that converts the RMS voltage amplitude of an RF signal to a DC voltage. Its high input impedance and small area make it suitable for the built-in-testing of critical RF blocks of a transceiver such as a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) and Power amplifier (PA) without affecting their performance and with minimum area overhead. DESCRIPTION: Th...

A vertically integrated monopoly is compared to a decentralised market arrangement where production is segmented between a Labour Managed Firm producing an input used by a pro...t maximiser manufacturer of a ...nal good. Surprisingly, in some circumstances the decentralised vertical arrangement is superior to the integrated one. JEL Classi...cation: L12, L13, L 32, P13