We analyze the decision to participate and performance at the Modern Olympic Summer Games at the country level. We use an unbalanced panel of 118 countries over all 24 editions of the Summer Games since 1896. The main focus of the paper is on economic, geographic and demographic determinants of Olympic participation and success. We estimate the impact of income per capita, population size, home...

This special issue reports the findings of a specialist workshop held in the summer of 2000, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This introduction provides background information on HSRH imagery, briefly describes the major ways in which remote sensing data have been used previously for exposure assessment, presents the salient findings of the workshop, and places the papers resulting from the workshop wit...

I have been fortunate to have bad the opportunity to be associated with the TIPSTER Text Program since its inception in 1989. Preliminary discussions among government researchers who were interested in establishing a major, new interagency text handling, processing, and exploitation program began in the Summer of that year and continued in earnest during the months that followed. Most of our fr...

My initial contact with Gavin Wright came when I arrived at Yale University from Pakistan in the early summer of 1971 due to the war between Pakistan and India. At the time, I had been a research fellow at the Institute for Development Economics in Karachi as part of a Yale-Ford Foundation project. Ford made a “safety-first” decision to have all Americans return to their country. Gavin was then...

in friendly remembrance of this fruitful tychastic encounter of the summer of 1969 in Madison, which has contributed to my decision to return to France to found with him CEREMADE (Centre for Research in Mathematics of the Decision) of the University Paris-Dauphine, this contribution which revisits forty years later his pioneering work on impulse management and finance market to which he initiat...

Fair and transparent procurement procedures are a cornerstone of a well functioning free-market economy. In particular, bidding is a mechanism whereby companies compete for contracts; when functioning well, the process rewards both the quality of the proposal, and the “reasonableness” of the quote. This way, both the company and the public win. The bidding process requires a fair and transparen...

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