A.J. VAN DER ZIJPP, H. MOLLENHORST, P.B.M. BERENTSEN and I.J.M. DE BOER 1 Animal Production Systems Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, 2 Farm Technology Group, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, 3 Business Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. * Corresponding author: Akke.vander...

To date, the study of dispatching or load balancing in server farms has primarily focused on the minimization ofresponse time. Server farms are typically modeled by a front-end router that employs a dispatching policy to routejobs to one of several servers, with each server scheduling all the jobs in its queue via Processor-Sharing. However,the common assumption has been that al...

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Recent research on the impact of institutions su¤ers from historical, theoretical, and methodological problems. The historical issue is whether the initially poorer countries became wealthier, as Acemoglou, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) would have us believe. The theoretical question is whether the institutions that should matter are those that protect property rights or those that coordindate i...

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