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Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high‐frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources.
Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Associations: The Blue Wall of Silence

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present a model showing that when the demand for labor services is inelastic and individual behavior is imperfectly monitored, a firm's employees may prefer to protect its shirkers and conceal information about peers' performance from the firm.
David K. Levine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The winner doesn't need to take it all: Unravelling the gendered value of work time

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract How people understand, negotiate and use time at work shapes their daily experiences. Yet, when work time is divided, allocated and valued in workplaces, women often lose out. Despite pervasive empirical evidence of gender gaps, research has largely overlooked the deeper role of time in shaping inequality.
Marijana Baric   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Bounds on Queuing Delay in the EGEE grid

open access: yes, 2007
Predicting the performance of schedulers is a notoriously difficult task. As a consequence, grid users might be tempted to work around the standard grid middleware by designing specific strategies, which would be counterproductive if generally adopted.
Perez, Julien   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

On bribing and balking in a simple queuing model of resource allocation [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyze two versions of a simple queuing model of resource allocation in which an impatient citizen of a transition economy or a developing country wishes to purchase a scarce good, namely, bread.
Amitrajeet Batabyal
core  

An effective and efficient matheuristic for the electric vehicle routing problem with capacitated recharging stations

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we address the problem of routing a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) to serve a set of customers, geographically distributed, within their time windows. We assume that EVs may also be recharged en route, and the amount of energy recharged at a recharging station (RS) is a decision variable itself, that is, partial recharges are ...
Maurizio Bruglieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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