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Making the Property Tax Work
(2013)As with any reform, making the property tax work requires visionary leadership, an appropriate policy framework, strong administrative capacity, and appropriate incentives to mobilize the political, administrative and popular ... -
Manufacturing Fetishism: The Neo-Mercantilist Preoccupation with Protecting Manufacturing
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-12-06)Two common views are that a country cannot develop without a strong manufacturing base and that trade restrictions are essential to facilitate the development of that strong manufacturing base and thus spur economic growth. ... -
Mapping Collaborations: The Geography of Collaborations Across Duke
(2017-02-28)How does proximity influence collaboration? In the 1970's, work by MIT professor Thomas Allen revealed that the frequency of communication between two engineers sharply decreased as the distance between their desks grew. ... -
Mark Twain in China
(2015-05-13)Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of ... -
Markets, Trade and Seafood
(Encyclopedia of Natural Resources - Two-Volume Set (Print), 2014-07-23)This entry describes the growth in seafood production and trade and the main factors causing these developments. We then review the leading economic research on the international seafood trade and markets with a focus on ... -
matRad - a multi-modality open source 3D treatment planning toolkit
(2015)We present matRad, an open source software for three-dimensional radiation treatment planning of intensitymodulated photon, proton, and carbon ion therapy. matRad is developed for educational and research purposes; it is ... -
Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931
(2002)© 2002 Gennifer Weisenfeld. Images and other third-party content in this book are used by permission, used under the doctrine of fair use, or are in the public domain. Except for that content, this book is licensed for reuse ... -
McCarthyism and the Mathematization of Economics
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-18)Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists’ ... -
Memory of a ballad singer
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Mergers and Alliances in Pharmaceutical: Effects on Innovation and R&D Productivity
(The Economics of Corporate Governance and Mergers, 2008-01-01)This book provides an insightful view of major issues in the economics of corporate governance (CG) and mergers. It presents a systematic update on the developments in the two fields during the last decade, as well ... -
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances
(The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Biopharmaceutical Industry, 2012-09-18)© 2012 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.This article considers the determinants and effects of M&As in the pharmaceutical industry, with a particular focus on innovation and R&D productivity. As is the case ... -
METHOD TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES DURING NEGOTIATIONS
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Mitral Regurgitation: A Team-Based Approach to Decision-Making PBLD (Canceled)
(2020-04-21)A worksheet created for a PBLD workshop that was to be a part of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, for a discussion of important elements of diagnosis, imging, and management of functional mitral ... -
MIT’s Openness to Jewish Economists
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2013-06-26)MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. ... -
Mixed-ness
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Mixture-Averse Preferences and Heterogeneous Stock Market Participation
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-09-09)To study intertemporal decisions under risk, we develop a new recursive model of non-expected-utility preferences. The main axiom of our analysis is called mixture aversion, as it captures a dislike of probabilistic mixtures ... -
Modeling to inform long-term care policy and planning for an aging society
(2017-01-01)Demographic changes such as increasing longevity, declining family sizes, and increasing female participation in the labor market have implications for long-term care (LTC) planning for the elderly. As the population in ...