cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Arbitrage-Based Pricing When Volatility is Stochastic
Creators: name: Bossaerts, Peter
name: Ghysels, Eric
name: Gouriéroux, Christian
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996
Subjects: Incomplete Markets, Transaction Time, Change of Time, Stochastic Volatility

description: In one of the early attempts to model stochastic volatility, Clark [1973] conjectured that the size of asset price movements is tied to the rate at which transactions occur. To formally analyze the econometric implications, he distinguished between transaction time and calendar time. The present paper exploits Clark's strategy for a different purpose, namely, asset pricing. It studies arbitrage-based pricing in economies where: (i) trade takes place in transaction time, (ii) there is a single state variable whose transaction time price path is binomial, (iii) there are risk-free bonds with calendar-time maturities, and (iv) the relation between transaction time and calendar time is stochastic. The state variable could be interpreted in various ways. E.g., it could be the price of a share of stock, as in Black and Scholes [1973], or a factor that summarizes changes in the investment opportunity set, as in Cox, Ingersoll and Ross [1985] or one that drives changes in the term structure of interest rates (Ho and Lee [1986], Heath, Jarrow and Morton [1992]). Property (iv) generally introduces stochastic volatility in the process of the state variable when recorded in calendar time. The paper investigates the pricing of derivative securities with calendar-time maturities. The restrictions obtained in Merton [1973] using simple buy-and-hold arbitrage portfolio arguments do not necessarily obtain. Conditions are derived for all derivatives to be priced by dynamic arbitrage, i.e., for market completeness in the sense of Harrison and Pliska [1981]. A particular class of stationary economies where markets are indeed complete is characterized.
description: The paper benefited from comments in the UCLA Theory Workshop and during the Workshop on the Mathematics of Finance in Montreal (April 30-May 3 1996). Helyette Geman's comments made us extend the scope of the theory beyond stock option pricing.
description: Submitted - sswp977.pdf
What Are Judicially Manageable Standards For Redistricting? Evidence From History
Creators: name: Altman, Micah
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: In the 1960s the courts adopted population-equality measures as a means to limit gerrymandering. In recent cases, the courts have begun to use geographical compactness standards for this same purpose. In this research note, I argue that unlike population-equality measures, compactness standards are not easily manageable by the judiciary.
I use a variety of compactness measures and population-equality measures to evaluate 349 district plans, comprising the 3390 U.S. Congressional districts created between 1789 and 1913. I find that different population-equality measures, even those with poor theoretical properties, produce very similar evaluations of plans. On the other hand, different compactness measures fail to agree about the compactness of most districts and plans.

In effect, the courts can use any convenient measure of population equality and obtain similar results, while the courts' choice of compactness measures will significantly change the evaluations in each case. Since there is no generally accepted single measure of compactness, this disagreement among measures raises concerns whether compactness is a readily operationalizable notion, to use a social scientific formulation, or a judicially manageable one, to employ terms from law.
description: The author would like to thank Morgan Kousser for his guidance during the development of this paper and Daniel Lowenstein for his many helpful comments.
description: Submitted - sswp976.pdf
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1943-12-02)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1943
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Dipodomys elephantinus
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys elephantinus

description: Dipodomys elephantinus (Grinnell, 1919). Univ. Calif. Publ. ZooL, 21:43.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, San Benito Co., Bear Valley, 1 mi. (1.6 km) N. Cook P.O., 1300 ft. (396 m).
DISTRIBUTION: W.C. California (U.S.A.).
COMMENT: May be conspecific with venustus; see Stock, 1974, J. Mammal., 55:505, and Schnell et al., 1978, Syst. ZooL, 27:34.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 383, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach
Creators: name: Camerer, Colin F.
name: Lovallo, Dan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1998

description: Psychological studies show that most people are overconfident about their own relative abilities, and unreasonably optimistic about their futures (e.g. Shelly E. Taylor and J.D. Brown, 1988; Neil D. Weinstein, 1980). When assessing their position in a distribution of peers on almost any positive trait-- like driving ability (Ola Svenson, 1981 ), income prospects, or longevity-- a vast majority of people say they are above the average, although of course, only half can be (if the trait is symmetrically distributed).
This paper explores whether optimistic biases could plausibly and predictably influence economic behavior in one particular setting-- entry into competitive games or markets. Many empirical studies show that most new businesses fail within a few years. For example, using plant level data from the U.S. Census of Manufacturers spanning 1963-1982, Timothy Dunne et al. (1988) estimated that 61.5 percent of all entrants exited within five years and 79.6 percent exited within 10 years. Most of these exits are failures (see also Dunne et al., 1989a, 1989b; D. Shapiro and R.S. Khemani, 1987).
description: Revised version. Original dated to July 1996.

Help and comments were received from Daniel Kahneman, Marc Knez, Matthew Rabin, David Teece, Dick Thaler, participants at the MacArthur Foundation Preferences Group, the 1995 J/DM Society, workshops at the Universities of Chicago and Colorado, UCLA, Harvard Business School, and Wharton, and several anonymous referees. Gail Nash provided superb secretarial help and Roberto Weber provided research assistance. The research was funded by NSF SBR-9511001.

Published as Camerer, C., & Lovallo, D. (1999). Overconfidence and excess entry: An experimental approach. The American Economic Review, 89(1), 306-318.
description: Submitted - sswp975_-_revised.pdf
Dipodomys gravipes Huey 1925
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys gravipes

description: Dipodomys gravipes Huey, 1925. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 38:83.
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Baja California Norte, 2 mi. (3 km) W. Santo Domingo Mission, 30° 45' N., 115° 58' W.
DISTRIBUTION: W. Baja California Norte (Mexico).
COMMENT: Considered distinct from agilis by Best, 1978, J. Mammal., 59: 174.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001005001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 383, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1943-12-03)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1943
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
title: Iterated Dominance and Iterated Best-Response in Experimental P-Beauty Contests
title: Iterated dominance and iterated best response in experimental "p-beauty contests"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ho, Teck H.
name: Weigelt, Keith
name: Camerer, Colin F.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: We study a dominance-solvable 'p-beauty contest' game in which a group of players simultaneously choose numbers from a closed interval. The winner is the player whose number is the closest top times the average, where p =/ 1. The numbers players choose can be taken as an indication of the number of steps of iterated reasoning about others they do. Choices in the first period show that the median number of steps of iterated reasoning is either one or two. Repeating the game produces reliable convergence to the unique Nash equilibrium. Choices in later periods are consistent with subjects' best-responding to previous choices, or iterating one step and best-responding to best responses. (Choices are not as consistent with 'learning direction theory' which embodies elements of belief-free reinforcement models). Variation in the values of p, the number of players, and whether subjects played a similar game before, all affect choices and learning.
description: Teck Ho and Qolin Camerer were sponsored in part by National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9511137 and Keith Weigelt by Wharton's Reginald Jones Center for Policy, Strategy, and Organization. We thank two anonymous referees, Rosemarie Nagel, Lisa Rutstrom, Dale Stahl, seminar participants at the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, and the MacArthur Foundation Preferences Group, for helpful comments, and Hongjai Rhee for tireless research assistance.

Published as Ho, T.H., Camerer, C., & Weigelt, K. (1998). Iterated dominance and iterated best response in experimental" p-beauty contests". The American Economic Review, 88(4), 947-969.
description: Submitted - sswp974.pdf
Russian Federalism: Economic Reform and Political Behavior
Creators: name: Polishchuk, Leonid
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: This paper explores the implications from Russian federalism of the "new" interregional economic inequality produced by the structural distortions inherited from the central planning, and immaturity of the Russian markets. As a result, regional preferences over federal policies are widely diverse, which makes a nation-wide consensus hard to reach. It is argued in the paper that high correlation between political and regional divides in Russia renders the federation unstable and that the instability, in its turn, reproduces interregional disparities. These links are also illustrated by a simple equilibrium model presented in the Appendix.
When the federal legislative bodies are "uprooted", captured by extra-territorial narrowly based interest groups, and lose their accountability to the voters, regional administrations emerge as representatives of their jurisdictions on the federal scene, and decision-making at the federal level assumes the form of federal-provincial bargaining. Such bargaining entails vast efficiency losses, since the federal administration is pressed to spend its resources for buying compliance of regional counterparts, instead of providing mandated public goods. It is stated in conclusion, that until markets integrate Russian regions and hence locally based political interests, the country will be failing to develop "market-preserving federalism" (Weingast, 1995), i.e. a federal system which stimulates economic growth and imposes self-enforcing restrictions on counterproductive discretion of public officials.
description: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference "Hyper-Federalism: Russian Decentralization in Comparative Perspective", Princeton University, February 9-10, 1996, and at the workshop "Regionalism, Federalism, and the Russian Elections", Stanford University, February 21, 1996. The author is grateful to Peter Ordeshook, Alexandr Sobyanin, and Barry Weingast for useful discussions of the paper.
description: Submitted - sswp972.pdf
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1943-12-04)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1943
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Bunomys prolatus Musser 1991
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Bunomys
Bunomys prolatus

description: 768.
Tambusisi Hill Rat
Bunomys prolatus
French: Bunomys de Musser / German: Tambusisi-Sulawesi-Bergratte / Spanish: Rata de colina de Tambusisi Other common names: Long-headed Hill Rat, Tambusisi Bunomys
Taxonomy. Bunomys prolatus Musser, 1991,
Gunung Tambusisi, 6000 ft (= 1830 m), central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Bunomys prolatus is in the B. chrysocomus species group within Bunomys and is sister to B. torajae. Monotypic.
Distribution. Mt Tambusisi, EC Sulawesi.
Descriptive notes. Head—body 156-179 mm, tail 125-142 mm, ear 24-26 mm, hindfoot 33-35 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. The Tambusisi Hill Rat is medium-sized, very robust bodied, and long faced, with long, dense, and soft pelage. Dorsum is tawny brownish gray or burnished dark brownish gray, having dark gray hairs tipped with black bands, dark buff bands, or ending in subterminal black bands and buffy tips. Venteris not distinctly demarcated from dorsum, fading from sides, and is slightly lighter buffy gray (in tawny morph), pale buff, or brighter buff (darker morph), some with tannish gray or dark gray with silver frosting or whitish buff overlay. Feet are long and slender, with large darkly spotted epidermal scales over dorsal surfaces and darkly spotted digits, giving an overall dark appearance. Ears are brown in tawny individuals, dark brown in dark individuals, and covered with short hair. Claws are very long, ivorycolored and have longer hair around them on hindfeet. Tail is 79% of head-body length, covered in short dark brown or unpigmented hairs, and dorsally and laterally dark brown while being slightly paler, grayish brown, plain white, or white with speckling on distal two-thirds ventrally and having white tip only for the final 2 mm. Skull is elongated.
Habitat. Short and very mossy montane forest formations at an elevation of 1830 m.
Food and Feeding. The Tambusisi Hill Rat probably has a diet similar to the Common Hill Rat (B. chrysocomus).
Breeding. One captured Tambusisi Hill Rat had onerecent placental scar.
Activity patterns. The Tambusisi Hill Rat is probably terrestrial and nocturnal, although one specimen was caught duringthe day.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Endangered on The IUCN Red List. The Tambusisi Hill Rat is apparently common where it is found, although its distribution is restricted (1063 km?) and threatened by habitat loss from agricultural expansion and logging. It occurs in Morowali Nature Reserve.
Bibliography. Clayton (2016j), Musser (1991, 2014), Musser & Carleton (2005).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on pages 868-869, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Stable Networks
Creators: name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Mutuswami, Suresh
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: A network is a graph where the nodes represent agents and an arc exists between two nodes if the corresponding agents interact bilaterally. An exogeneous value function gives the value of each network, while an allocation rule describes how the value of any graph is distributed amongst the agents. We explore the possibility of constructing allocation rules which will ensure that efficient networks of agents will form when the individual agents decide to form or severe links amongst themselves.
description: We are most grateful to Matthew Jackson for several helpful discussions and suggestions. Thanks are also due to Sudipto Bhattacharya for comments on an earlier version of the paper. This version of the paper was written when the first author was visiting Caltech. Their hospitality is gratefully acknowledged.

Published as Dutta, B., & Mutuswami, S. (1997). Stable networks. Journal of economic theory, 76(2), 322-344.
description: Submitted - sswp971.pdf
title: Timing and Virtual Observability in Ultimatum Bargaining and Weak Link Coordination Games
title: Timing and Virtual Observability in Ultimatum Bargaining and "Weak Link" Coordination Games
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Camerer, Colin F.
name: Knez, Marc J.
name: Weber, Roberto A.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996
Subjects: timing, coordination games, experiments

description: Previous studies have shown that simply knowing some players move first can affect behavior in games, even when the first-movers' moves are unobservable. This observation violates the game-theoretic principle that timing of unobserved moves is irrelevant. We extend this work by varying timing of unobservable moves in ultimatum bargaining games and "weak link" coordination games. Timing without observability affects both bargaining and coordination, but only weakly. The results are consistent with theories that allow "virtual observability" of first-mover choices, rather than theories in which timing matters only because first-mover advantage is used as a principle of equilibrium selection.
description: We thank Gary Bolton, Yuval Rottenstreich, participants in the Chicago GSB Behavioral Science brown bag lunch workshop, the Wharton Decision Processes workshop, and the 1996 Public Choice Society meeting for ideas, and NSF grant SBR-9511001 for financial support.

Published as Weber, Roberto A., Colin F. Camerer, and Marc Knez. "Timing and virtual observability in ultimatum bargaining and "weak link" coordination games." Experimental Economics 7, no. 1 (2004): 25-48.
description: Submitted - sswp970.pdf
Dipodomys heermanni Le Conte 1853
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys heermanni

description: Dipodomys heermanni Le Conte, 1853. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 6:224.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, Calaveras Co., Sierra Nevada, probably in the Upper Sonoran Life Zone on Calaveras River.
DISTRIBUTION: C. California (U.S.A.).
COMMENT: Revised by Grinnell, 1922, Univ. Calif. Publ. ZooL, 24:1 -124. Does not include californicus; see Patton et al., 1976, J. Mammal., 57: 159; see comment under californicus.
PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001006001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 383, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
Attitudes, Uncertainty and Survey Responses
Creators: name: Alvarez, R. Michael
name: Franklin, Charles H.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: Theory: We assume that survey respondents are uncertain about their attitudes, and that their attitudes about political issues can be understood as probability distributions. From this perspective, we derive the "expected value" survey response model. We also derive a dynamic model of attitude change, based on the notion that attitudes are uncertain.
Hypotheses: This perspective on political attitudes leads to two predictions. The first is that uncertain respondents will show less variance in responses than certain respondents, and that the less certain will tend to give responses towards the midpoint of issue placement scales. The second is that uncertain respondents will have less stable opinions about political issues over time.
Methods: These hypotheses are tested using new survey questions we have developed to measure respondent uncertainty. These survey questions have been included in three recent national surveys, two conducted by the Letters and Sciences Survey Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the other by the National Election Studies.
Results: We demonstrate that uncertain respondents are more likely that certain respondents to provide issue placements at the midpoint of the scale, controlling for many factors. Also, we show that uncertain respondents have less stable political attitudes than certain respondents.
description: We acknowledge the contributions of seminar discussants at University of California-Riverside, University of California-San Diego, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology. We thank the Letters and Science Survey Center of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for support of our data collection. Some of the data we use in this paper were originally collected by the National Election Studies, and were distributed by the Inter-university Consortium for Social and Political Research. Alvarez thanks the John M. Olin Foundation for the support of his research through a Faculty Fellowship.
description: Submitted - sswp969.pdf
Dipodomys ingens
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys ingens

description: Dipodomys ingens (Merriam, 1904). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 17: 141.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., California, San Luis Obispo Co., Carrizo Plain, Painted Rock, 20 mi. (32 km) S.E. of Simmler.
DISTRIBUTION: S.W. San Joaquin Valley and adjacent areas (W.C. California, U.S.A.).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001007001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
Voters Can Have Strong Incentives To Become Informed, Or To Be Strategically Ignorant
Creators: name: Hanson, Robin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: Before an election, two candidates choose policies which are lotteries over election-day distributive positions. I find conditions under which there exist mixed-strategy probabilistic-voting equilibria which are independent, treating voter groups independently. When voter efforts determine the quality of their signals regarding candidate positions, voters can have strong incentives regarding their visible efforts made before candidates choose policies.
Also, scale economies in group information production can make voters prefer large groups. Even with zero information costs, however, voters can ex ante prefer ignorance to full information. Optimal ignorance emphasizes negative over positive news, and induces candidates to take stable positions.
description: Revised version. Original date unknown.

I thank Mike Alvarez, Matt Jackson, Steven Knack, John Ledyard, Richard McKelvey, and Thomas Palfrey for comments on earlier versions of this paper. I especially thank Kim Border for help in thinking about proving existence. I thank the New Millennium Program Office of the Jet Propulsion Lab of NASA for financial support.
description: Submitted - sswp968_-_revised.pdf
Dipodomys insalaris Merriam 1907
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys insalaris

description: Dipodomys insalaris Merriam, 1907. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 20:77.
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Baja California Sur, Gulf of California, San Jose Isl.
DISTRIBUTION: San Jose Isl. (Baja California Sur, Mexico).
COMMENT: Probably a subspecies of merriami; see Lidicker, 1960, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 67:204 (TLB).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001008001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
Part of the report on the activities made at the Ecole des Hauted Etudes, Section des sciences historique et philologique, 1879-1880: section IV, History
Creators: name: Eliver Bénet ## Clement Dzieduszycki ## Rébouis ## Saint-Raymont
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: vue 3
description: "Death notice of Madame Veuve Emile Chatelain, member of the Ecole française de Rome; on the back side the report of the lectures given by M. Giry at the EPHE in 1879-1880; the report continues on a second sheet of the same format (framed with the black borders) and is signed by some of Giry's listeners: Bénet, Dzieduszycki, Rébouis, Saint-Raymont. - Tile of the folder (not by Marichal): 'papiers oubliés dans le dossiers Marichal'"
description: Source: 4MAR_28_6_2-1
description: Relation: E. Chatelain ## E. Bénet ## C. Dzieduszycki ## Rébouis ## Saint-Raymont ## R. Marichal ## Rapport sur l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Section de Sciences historiques et philologiques, IV Histoires, 1879-1880, pp. 23-25
description: created: 1879-1880
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1943-12-05)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1943
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
MPEC 2024-X295 : 2024 XL16
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 XL16

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1943-12-06)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1943
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Input Markets Development, Property Rights, and Extra-Market Redistribution
Creators: name: Polishchuk, Leonid
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: The paper links the intensity of re-distributional activities within an economy to the availability of the input markets. When an individual is faced with a choice between productive vs non-productive (re-distributional) activities, the outcome heavily depends on whether this individual can match his/her personal endowment of human resources (labor, entrepreneurial talent, skills etc.) with commensurable quantities of transferable economic inputs, which are required to complement the human resources in production technologies. If the markets for these inputs are missed or impeded, rational individuals could be forced into re-distribution, where "technologies" do not require matching inputs.
However, the development of the input markets alone is not sufficient to suppress redistributional activities. Another factor to be taken into account is the degree of protection of property rights. An equilibrium model is presented to demonstrate that if property rights are adequately protected, then opening of the input markets undermines the incentive to seek re-distributional gains. On the other hand, if property rights are protected poorly, making input markets available could further stimulate re-distribution, as the society is getting richer, and the rate of return to re-distributional efforts goes up.
Implications of the above observations for institutional change and economic reform are briefly discussed in conclusion.
description: I would like to thank Victor Polterovich for helpful discussions of this paper.
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Is There a Winner's Curse In The Market For Baseball Players? Evidence From The Field
Creators: name: Blecherman, Barry
name: Camerer, Colin F.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: A winner's curse exists in common value auctions when bidders fail to fully account for the fact that the winning bidder's valuation of the object is an upward-biased estimates of its true (unknown) value. Previous studies have reported mixed evidence for a winner's curse in oil lease auctions, corporate takeovers, auctions for failed banks, and in many experiments. In this paper we search for a winner's curse in the 1990 negotiations for free agent baseball players. Free agents are overpaid, relative to direct estimates of the revenue impact of their performance, by about 50% on average. A control sample of non-free agent players, in contrast, are overpaid by only 1 %. However, proper adjustment for the winner's curse requires bidders to bid less when the variance of an object's value is lower; and salaries are lower for players with more variable previous performances. Taken together, the data show a large winner's curse but the curse is not due to teams mistakenly paying more for high-variance players.
description: Comments by the first author's dissertation committee members, Joe Harder, Paul Kleindorfer, Howard Kunreuther, and Keith Weigelt, were very helpful. Funds were provided by the Risk and Decision Processes Center of the Wharton School and by NSF grant SES88-09299.
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Bunomys torajae Musser 2014
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Bunomys
Bunomys torajae

description: 769.
Tana Toraja Hill Rat
Bunomys torajae
French: Bunomys des Torajas / German: Toraja-Sulawesi-Bergratte / Spanish: Rata de colina de Toraja
Other common names: Tana Toraja Bunomys
Taxonomy. Bunomys torajae Musser, 2014,
“tropical lower montane rain forest at 2600 m near Gunung Gandangdewata (—2-748253° S, 119-368536° E for the peak, Rano Rano, Kampung Rantepangko, desai Tondok Bakaru, Kabatuan Mamasa).”
Bunomys torajaeis in the B. chrysocomus species group within Bunomys and is sister to B. torajae. Monotypic.
Distribution. Mt Gandangdewata, Quarles Range, WC Sulawesi.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 156-175 mm, tail 160-170 mm, ear 26-28 mm, hindfoot 36-39 mm; weight 98-128 g. The Tana Toraja Hill Rat is medium-sized but the largest, by body size, in the B. chrysocomus species group. Pelage is soft, dense, long, and somewhat woolly, with relatively short black guard hairs. Dorsum is dark brown, with buff and black speckling. Venteris buffy dark gray, with dark gray throat, but one specimen was paler with dark gray background washed with pale buff; ventral pelage is not sharply demarcated from dorsal pelage. Feet are gray to brownish gray dorsally, with silvery highlights occasionally; ventral part is gray to dark gray. Claws are moderately long, sharp, and unpigmented. Ears are large and dark brown, covered in short hair and appear to be naked. Tail is ¢.93% of head-body length and is individually variable in color, dorsally dark brownish gray and ventrally white or white mottled with grayish brown; some specimens have white tip. Skull has long and tapered rostrum, with slight bulges of nasolacrimal capsule. There are two pairs of inguinal mammae.
Habitat. Tropical lower montane forest at elevations of 2500-2600 m.
Food and Feeding. Diet of the Tana Toraja Hill Rat is probably similar to that ofthe Common Hill Rat (B. chrysocomus).
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. The Tana Toraja Hill Rat is terrestrial and nocturnal.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The [UCN Red List. The Tana Toraja Hill Rat has a very restricted distribution and may be threatened by habitat loss from logging and agricultural expansion, although this occurs in lowlands were it has not been found.
Bibliography. Musser (2014).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 869, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Dipodomys margaritae Merriam 1907
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys margaritae

description: Dipodomys margaritae Merriam, 1907. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 20:76.
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Baja California Sur, Santa Margarita Isl.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
COMMENT: Lidicker, 1960, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 67(2):204, included margaritae in merriami, but Huey, 1964, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 13: 123, and Hall, 1981:587, considered margaritae as a distinct species.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001009001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
title: Portfolio Dominance and Optimality in Infinite Securities Markets
title: Portfolio dominance and optimality in infinite security markets
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Aliprantis, Charalambos D.
name: Brown, D. J.
name: Polyrakis, I. A.
name: Werner, Jan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996
Subjects: securities markets, portfolio dominance, equilibrium, Yudin basis

description: The most natural way of ordering portfolios is by comparing their payoffs. If a portfolio has a payoff higher than the payoff of another portfolio, then it is greater than the other portfolio. This order is called the portfolio dominance order. An important property that a portfolio dominance order may have is the lattice property. It requires that the supremum and the infimum of any two portfolios are well-defined. The lattice property implies that such portfolio investment strategies as portfolio insurance or hedging an option's payoff are well-defined.

The lattice property of the portfolio dominance order plays an important role in the optimality and equilibrium analysis of markets with infinitely many securities with simple (i.e., arbitrary finite) portfolio holdings. If the portfolio dominance order is a lattice order and has a Yudin basis, then optimal portfolio allocations and equilibria in securities markets do exist. A Yudin basis constitutes a system of mutual funds of securities such that trading mutual funds provides the same spanning opportunities, and that the restriction of no short sales of mutual funds is equivalent to the restriction of non-negative wealth.
description: The research of C. D. Aliprantis and I. A. Polyrakis was partially supported by the 1995 PENED Program of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Technology of Greece and by the NATO Collaborative Research Grant # 941059. Roko Aliprantis also expresses his deep appreciation for the hospitality provided by the Department of Economics and the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell University and the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute of Technology where part of the paper was written during his sabbatical leave (January-June, 1996).

Published as Aliprantis, Charalambos D., D. J. Brown, I. A. Polyrakis, and Jan Werner. "Portfolio dominance and optimality in infinite security markets." Journal of Mathematical Economics 30, no. 3 (1998): 347-366.
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Dipodomys merriami Mearns 1890
Creators: name: James H. Honacki
name: Kenneth E. Kinman
name: James W. Koeppl
Publisher: name: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Heteromyidae
Dipodomys
Dipodomys merriami

description: Dipodomys merriami Mearns, 1890. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 2: 290.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Arizona, Maricopa Co., New River, between Phoenix and Prescott.
DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Nevada and N. E. California to Texas (U.S.A.), S. Baja California Sur, and San Luis Potosi (Mexico).
COMMENT: Formerly included margaritae; see Huey, 1964, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 13: 123.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410004001010001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 2), pp. 382-392 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353025
Yudin Cones and Inductive Limit Topologies
Creators: name: Aliprantis, Charalambos D.
name: Brown, D. J.
name: Polyrakis, I. A.
name: Werner, Jan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: A cone C in a vector space has a Yudin basis {ei}i∈I if every c ∈ C can be written uniquely in the form c = Σi∈Iλiei, where λi ≥ 0 for each i ∈ I and λi = 0 for all but finitely many i. A Yudin cone is a cone with a Yudin basis. Yudin cones arise naturally since the cone generated by an arbitrary family {ei}i∈I of linearly independent vectors
C = {∑i∈Iλiei: λi ≥ 0 for each I and λi = 0 for all but finitely many i}
is always a Yudin cone having the family { ei}iEJ as a Yudin basis. The Yudin cones possess several remarkable order and topological properties. Here is a list of some of these properties.
1. A Yudin cone C is a lattice cone in the vector subspace it generates M = C - C.
2. A closed generating cone in a two-dimensional vector space is always a Yudin cone.
3. If the cone of a Riesz space is a Yudin cone, then the lattice operations of the space
are given pointwise relative to the Yudin basis.
4. If a Riesz space has a Yudin cone, then the inductive limit topology generated by the finite dimensional subspaces is a Hausdorff order continuous locally convex-solid topology.
5. In a Riesz space with a Yudin cone the order intervals lie in finite dimensional Riesz subspaces (and so they are all compact with respect to any Hausdorff linear topology on the space).
The notion of a Yudin basis originated in studies on the optimality and efficiency of competitive securities markets in the provision of insurance for investors against risk or price uncertainty.• It is a natural extension to  incomplete markets of Arrow's notion of a basis for complete markets, i.e., markets where full insurance against risk can be purchased. The obtained results have immediate applications to competitive securities markets. Especially, they are sufficient for establishing the efficiency of stock markets as a means for insuring against risk or price uncertainty.
description: The authors thank Yuri Abramovich, Mukul Majumdar, Mike Maxwell, Chris Shannon, Nicholas Yannelis and Tony W ickstead for several discussions and some critical comments. The research of C. D. Aliprantis and I. A. Polyrakis was partially supported by the 1995 PENED Program of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Technology of Greece and by the NATO Collaborative Research Grant # 941059. Roko Aliprantis also expresses his deep appreciation for the hospitality provided by the Department of Economics and the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell University and the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute of Technology where part of the paper was written during his sabbatical leave (January-June, 1996).
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Fraud or Fiction: Who Stole What in Russia's December 1993 Elections
Creators: name: Filippov, Mikhail G.
name: Ordeshook, Peter C.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996

description: Serious allegations of fraud have been made with respect to Russia's first competitive party-based parliamentary election in December 1993 - the same election in which Russian's ostensibly ratified a new constitution for themselves. Although charges of fraud are common in elections, these allegations are especially serious in that the argument here was that over 9 million ballots were fraudulently cast and that the turnout threshold of 50% required to render the constitutional referendum legitimate was in fact not surpassed. These are profoundly important allegations. First, they bring into question the legitimacy of Russia's new constitution and thereby offer its opponents an excuse to suspend its provisions some time in the future. Second, they naturally enough cause us to be suspicious of Russia's December 1995 parliamentary elections. Finally, to the extent that the same methods for detecting fraud are likely to be applied to subsequent elections, if they revel significant levels of fraud there, they can provide an excuse for canceling those elections or invalidating their results. In this essay, then, we look at the two methodologies employed to detect and measure the extent of fraud in 1993. Without disputing the possibility that fraud was in fact extensive, we conclude that neither methodology as presently developed is adequate to the task at hand. The first, which assumes that we should observe a linear relationship between the log of the rank of parties and the log of their support at the polls employ s a number of ad hoc assumptions and a priori estimates that, in sum, are equivalent to assuming the conclusion. The second method, which looks at the relationship between turnout and the share of the electorate voting for one party or position versus another, is subject to a number of methodological pitfalls, including aggregation error and the possibility that unobserved variables correlate with both turnout and support so as to render any relationship indeterminate. Nevertheless, of the two methodologies, the second is the most promising for further development and our critique of it is intended to point the way to the requisite developments.
description: This research was supported by a grant from the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies. Moreover, despite the criticisms made herein of their methods, the authors wish to express their gratitude to both Alexandar Sobyanin and Misha Myagkov for making their data readily available for reanalysis.
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