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| A Fast Method for Implementing Hypothesis Tests with Multiple Sample Splits in Nonparametric Models of Production |
0 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
9 |
17 |
22 |
| A General Methodology for Bootstrapping in Nonparametric Frontier Models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
25 |
58 |
1,492 |
| ANALYZING TRIP ACTIVITY OF HOUSEHOLDS: A MIXED MULTINOMINAL-POISSON APPROACH |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
179 |
| Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
15 |
| Are U.S. banks too large? |
0 |
0 |
5 |
245 |
1 |
4 |
21 |
575 |
| Are credit unions too small? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
56 |
1 |
8 |
16 |
188 |
| Asymptotics and Consistent Bootstraps for DEA Estimators in Non-parametric Frontier Models |
0 |
1 |
2 |
301 |
1 |
13 |
20 |
625 |
| Bootstrap Estimation for Nonparametric Efficiency Estimates |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
89 |
| Central Limit Theorems and Inference for Sources of Productivity Change Measured by Nonparametric Malmquist Indices |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
10 |
17 |
| Central limit theorems and inference for sources of productivity change measured by nonparametric Malmquist indices |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
8 |
18 |
| Central limit theorems for conditional efficiency measures and tests of the ‘separability’ condition in non-parametric, two-stage models of production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
27 |
| Computational Efficient, Consistent Bootstrap for Inference with Non-parametric DEA Estimators |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
10 |
18 |
| Conical FDH Estimators of General Technologies, with Applications to Returns to Scale and Malmquist Productivity Indices |
0 |
0 |
3 |
19 |
1 |
5 |
16 |
29 |
| Consolidation in US banking: which banks engage in mergers? |
1 |
1 |
2 |
393 |
2 |
6 |
14 |
993 |
| Estimating and bootstrapping malmquist indices |
0 |
0 |
0 |
67 |
0 |
7 |
12 |
748 |
| Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments and Perspectives |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
13 |
| Explaining bank failures: deposit insurance, regulation, and efficiency |
0 |
0 |
0 |
544 |
0 |
8 |
13 |
1,527 |
| Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
15 |
26 |
| Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators |
0 |
0 |
0 |
44 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
103 |
| Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators |
1 |
2 |
2 |
19 |
1 |
4 |
11 |
71 |
| Fast and efficient computation of directional distance estimators |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
15 |
| Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
13 |
24 |
38 |
| Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
5 |
17 |
| Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
7 |
12 |
| Inference in Dynamic, Nonparametric Models of Production for General Technologies |
0 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
14 |
| Inference in Dynamic, Nonparametric Models of Production for General Technologies |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
10 |
| Inference in Dynamic, Nonparametric Models of Production: Central Limit Theorems for Malmquist Indices |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
13 |
| Inference in Dynamic, Nonparametric Models of Production: Central Limit Theorems for Malmquist Indices |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
4 |
8 |
19 |
| Inferences From Cross-sectional, Stochastic Frontier Models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
| Measuring Firm Performance Using Nonparametric Quantile-type Distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
13 |
| Measuring Firm Performance using Nonparametric Quantile-type Distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
10 |
20 |
| Measuring Firm Performance using Nonparametric Quantile-type Distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
2 |
6 |
14 |
113 |
| Methodologies for assessing government efficiency |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
13 |
29 |
| Methodologies for assessing government efficiency |
1 |
1 |
1 |
44 |
1 |
10 |
21 |
80 |
| Modern Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers |
0 |
1 |
4 |
12 |
2 |
12 |
22 |
37 |
| New Estimates of the Lerner Index of Market Power for U.S. Banks |
0 |
0 |
6 |
78 |
0 |
27 |
53 |
324 |
| New evidence on returns to scale and product mix among U.S. commercial banks |
0 |
0 |
0 |
197 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
785 |
| New evidence on the Fed's productivity in providing payments services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
76 |
2 |
5 |
8 |
299 |
| Non-parametric, unconditional quantile estimation for efficiency analysis with an application to Federal Reserve check processing operations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
132 |
0 |
8 |
17 |
404 |
| Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables |
0 |
0 |
0 |
113 |
1 |
6 |
10 |
137 |
| Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
17 |
| Nonparametric Statistical Analysis of Production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
8 |
16 |
| Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
62 |
0 |
8 |
17 |
117 |
| On Players' Models of Other Players: Theory and Experimental Evidence |
0 |
0 |
3 |
180 |
1 |
5 |
15 |
443 |
| Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
10 |
18 |
684 |
| Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
14 |
905 |
| Performance of the bootstrap for DEA estimators and iterating the principle |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
10 |
24 |
| Predicting Recessions: A New Measure of Output Gap as Predictor |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
6 |
20 |
| Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
7 |
1,154 |
| Productivity growth in industrialized countries |
0 |
1 |
2 |
137 |
2 |
9 |
17 |
627 |
| Quality and its Impact on Efficiency |
0 |
0 |
0 |
29 |
0 |
6 |
9 |
60 |
| Quality and its Impact on Efficiency |
0 |
0 |
1 |
40 |
2 |
7 |
21 |
228 |
| Quality and its impact on efficiency |
0 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
19 |
| Quality as a Latent Heterogeneity Factor in the Efficiency of Universities |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
12 |
18 |
| Robust Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency and Technical Change in U.S. Commercial Banking |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
11 |
16 |
516 |
| Robust non-parametric quantile estimation of efficiency and productivity change in U.S. commercial banking, 1985-2004 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
115 |
0 |
8 |
13 |
292 |
| Robust nonparametric estimation of efficiency and technical change in U.S. commercial banking |
0 |
0 |
1 |
193 |
1 |
4 |
11 |
427 |
| Robust, dynamic nonparametric benchmarking: the evolution of cost-productivity and efficiency among U.S. credit unions |
0 |
0 |
1 |
85 |
0 |
4 |
11 |
221 |
| Sensitivity Analysis to Efficiency Scores: How to Bootstrap in Nonparametric Frontier Models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
150 |
0 |
10 |
19 |
885 |
| Sensitivity analysis of efficiency scores: how to bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
0 |
8 |
14 |
240 |
| Some problems with the Ferrier/Hirschberg bootstrap idea |
0 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
451 |
| Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
14 |
32 |
| Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
9 |
32 |
| Statistical Inference for DEA Estimators of Directional Distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
2 |
8 |
13 |
38 |
| Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: the State of the Art |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
15 |
1,185 |
| Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
12 |
| Technical progress, inefficiency and productivity change in U.S. banking, 1984-1993 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
297 |
1 |
6 |
12 |
776 |
| Technical, Allocative and Overall Efficiency: Inference and Hypothesis Testing |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
7 |
18 |
| Testing Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models of Production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
11 |
| Testing Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models of Production |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
10 |
18 |
27 |
| Testing Restrictions in Nonparametric Efficiency Models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
10 |
466 |
| Testing the "Separability" Condition in Two-Stage Nonparametric Models of Production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
89 |
3 |
8 |
13 |
297 |
| Testing the "Separability" Condition in Two-Stage Nonparametric Models of Production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
| Testing the "separability" condition in two-stage nonparametric models of production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
140 |
6 |
13 |
25 |
450 |
| Testing whether two-stage estimation is meaningful in non-parametric models of production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
11 |
34 |
| The Evolution of Scale Economies in U.S. Banking |
0 |
0 |
2 |
60 |
0 |
6 |
18 |
171 |
| The contribution of on-site examination ratings to an emprircal model of bank failures |
0 |
0 |
0 |
230 |
1 |
4 |
9 |
605 |
| Two-Stage DEA: Caveat Emptor |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
14 |
30 |
| Two-Stage DEA: Caveat Emptor |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
29 |
| When Bias Kills the Variance: Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH Efficiency Scores |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
9 |
31 |
| When Bias Kills the Variance: Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH Efficiency Scores |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
19 |
| Why do banks disappear? The determinants of U.S. bank failures and acquisitions |
0 |
0 |
2 |
750 |
1 |
10 |
19 |
1,938 |
| Total Working Papers |
3 |
9 |
44 |
5,114 |
63 |
518 |
1,033 |
22,737 |
| Journal Article |
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12 months |
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| A Computationally Efficient, Consistent Bootstrap for Inference with Non-parametric DEA Estimators |
0 |
0 |
0 |
55 |
0 |
7 |
8 |
153 |
| A Generalized Hyperbolic Distance Function for Benchmarking Performance: Estimation and Inference |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
11 |
11 |
| A general methodology for bootstrapping in non-parametric frontier models |
0 |
1 |
4 |
621 |
2 |
14 |
31 |
1,305 |
| A non-parametric analysis of world productivity growth, 1990–2019 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
20 |
20 |
| ASYMPTOTICS AND CONSISTENT BOOTSTRAPS FOR DEA ESTIMATORS IN NONPARAMETRIC FRONTIER MODELS |
0 |
2 |
3 |
164 |
1 |
14 |
23 |
661 |
| Analyzing Frequencies of Several Types of Events: A Mixed Multinomial-Poisson Approach |
0 |
0 |
0 |
132 |
1 |
6 |
10 |
392 |
| Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries |
0 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
1 |
6 |
15 |
22 |
| Are Credit Unions Too Small? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
28 |
0 |
6 |
10 |
157 |
| Assessing the effect of high performance computing capabilities on academic research output |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
2 |
10 |
15 |
61 |
| Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities |
0 |
0 |
4 |
9 |
0 |
3 |
12 |
37 |
| Can deposit insurance increase the risk of bank failure? Some historical evidence |
0 |
0 |
2 |
137 |
0 |
8 |
13 |
473 |
| Central limit theorems and inference for sources of productivity change measured by nonparametric Malmquist indices |
0 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
9 |
18 |
44 |
| Central limit theorems for conditional efficiency measures and tests of the ‘separability’ condition in non‐parametric, two‐stage models of production |
0 |
0 |
2 |
10 |
1 |
7 |
14 |
39 |
| Consolidation in US banking: Which banks engage in mergers? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
10 |
| Consolidation in US banking: Which banks engage in mergers? |
0 |
0 |
2 |
108 |
2 |
7 |
14 |
384 |
| Deadweight loss in highway toll collection |
0 |
0 |
0 |
37 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
160 |
| Detecting Outliers in Deterministic Nonparametric Frontier Models with Multiple Outputs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
12 |
795 |
| Dimension reduction in nonparametric models of production |
0 |
0 |
1 |
36 |
0 |
13 |
18 |
149 |
| Do Large Banks Have Lower Costs? New Estimates of Returns to Scale for U.S. Banks |
2 |
2 |
5 |
15 |
3 |
9 |
25 |
60 |
| Do Large Banks Have Lower Costs? New Estimates of Returns to Scale for U.S. Banks |
0 |
2 |
5 |
186 |
2 |
12 |
30 |
476 |
| Effects of Deregulation on the Productivity of Korean Banks |
1 |
1 |
1 |
249 |
1 |
8 |
10 |
649 |
| Efficient User Charges in a Rent-Seeking Model |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
146 |
| Estimating and bootstrapping Malmquist indices |
0 |
0 |
0 |
240 |
1 |
6 |
8 |
517 |
| Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments and Perspectives |
0 |
0 |
3 |
71 |
1 |
3 |
12 |
200 |
| Estimation and inference in two-stage, semi-parametric models of production processes |
4 |
13 |
47 |
1,503 |
15 |
39 |
145 |
3,441 |
| Evaluating the efficiency of commercial banks: does our view of what banks do matter? |
0 |
0 |
1 |
227 |
3 |
8 |
16 |
717 |
| Evidence for optimistic and pessimistic behavior in normal-form games |
0 |
0 |
0 |
49 |
1 |
5 |
11 |
409 |
| Evidence from shadow price of equity on “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
3 |
6 |
9 |
31 |
| Experimental evidence on players' models of other players |
0 |
1 |
4 |
534 |
0 |
3 |
21 |
1,142 |
| Explaining Bank Failures: Deposit Insurance, Regulation, and Efficiency |
0 |
1 |
2 |
617 |
0 |
3 |
16 |
1,966 |
| FEAR: A software package for frontier efficiency analysis with R |
0 |
2 |
11 |
961 |
3 |
20 |
56 |
2,701 |
| Fast and efficient computation of directional distance estimators |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
1 |
9 |
28 |
78 |
| Hospital Ownership and Technical Inefficiency |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
4 |
7 |
89 |
| Hypothesis testing in nonparametric models of production using multiple sample splits |
0 |
0 |
3 |
31 |
4 |
19 |
36 |
133 |
| INFERENCE IN DYNAMIC, NONPARAMETRIC MODELS OF PRODUCTION: CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS FOR MALMQUIST INDICES |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
11 |
| Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models |
0 |
1 |
3 |
83 |
0 |
5 |
16 |
218 |
| Inferences from Cross-Sectional, Stochastic Frontier Models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
85 |
2 |
10 |
20 |
230 |
| Introduction for Journal of Productivity Analysis special issue on transitioning economics |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
192 |
| Investigating the performance of Chinese banks over 2007–2014 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
10 |
1 |
9 |
22 |
47 |
| Measuring and Explaining Technical Efficiency in UK Potato Production |
0 |
0 |
0 |
55 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
153 |
| Measuring firm performance using nonparametric quantile-type distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
21 |
61 |
| Modeling And Testing For Heterogeneity In Observed Strategic Behavior |
0 |
0 |
0 |
39 |
0 |
7 |
12 |
342 |
| Modeling and explaining the growth patterns over time of country-specific website clickstream metrics |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
15 |
| New evidence on returns to scale and product mix among U.S. commercial banks |
0 |
1 |
4 |
102 |
1 |
7 |
20 |
345 |
| New evidence on the Fed's productivity in providing payments services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
0 |
6 |
10 |
132 |
| Non-parametric tests of returns to scale |
0 |
3 |
5 |
183 |
0 |
9 |
28 |
380 |
| Non-parametric, unconditional quantile estimation for efficiency analysis with an application to Federal Reserve check processing operations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
71 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
244 |
| Nonparametric analysis of returns to scale in the US hospital industry |
0 |
0 |
1 |
206 |
1 |
13 |
20 |
686 |
| Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
14 |
18 |
| Of Course We Can Bootstrap DEA Scores! But Does It Mean Anything? Logic Trumps Wishful Thinking |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
7 |
14 |
49 |
| On Players' Models of Other Players: Theory and Experimental Evidence |
0 |
0 |
3 |
684 |
3 |
13 |
32 |
1,450 |
| On the relative efficiency of alternative modes of producing a public sector output: The case of the developmentally disabled |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
6 |
12 |
48 |
| Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
23 |
| Rent-Seeking and Peak-Load Pricing of Public Services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
8 |
22 |
| Residential location and scheduling of work hours |
1 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
68 |
| Robust Nonparametric Quantile Estimation of Efficiency and Productivity Change in U.S. Commercial Banking, 1985–2004 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
41 |
0 |
5 |
9 |
114 |
| Scheduling Costs and the Value of Travel Time |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
8 |
32 |
| Sensitivity Analysis of Efficiency Scores: How to Bootstrap in Nonparametric Frontier Models |
0 |
4 |
11 |
277 |
4 |
15 |
50 |
713 |
| Some Problems with the Ferrier/Hirschberg Bootstrap Idea |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
0 |
5 |
11 |
35 |
| Statistical Approaches for Non-parametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour |
0 |
0 |
1 |
34 |
0 |
6 |
14 |
103 |
| Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: The State of the Art |
0 |
0 |
1 |
42 |
3 |
7 |
21 |
201 |
| Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances |
0 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
2 |
3 |
9 |
133 |
| Suppression of inflammation by a synthetic histone mimic |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
9 |
16 |
| Technical Efficiency in the Decentralized Care of the Developmentally Disabled |
0 |
0 |
0 |
42 |
0 |
10 |
14 |
237 |
| Technical Progress, Inefficiency, and Productivity Change in U.S. Banking, 1984-1993 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
8 |
17 |
533 |
| Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
12 |
30 |
| Testing Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models of Production |
0 |
0 |
4 |
28 |
2 |
7 |
21 |
101 |
| Testing Independence in Models of Productive Efficiency |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
5 |
10 |
54 |
| The Bias of Bootstrapped Versus Conventional Standard Errors in the General Linear and SUR Models |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
11 |
46 |
| The Demand for Housing: Theoretical Considerations |
0 |
1 |
7 |
115 |
0 |
6 |
21 |
242 |
| The evolution of cost-productivity and efficiency among US credit unions |
0 |
0 |
3 |
44 |
1 |
8 |
19 |
211 |
| The evolution of scale economies in US banking |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
1 |
3 |
13 |
79 |
| The highway speed-volume relationship revisited |
0 |
0 |
0 |
77 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
246 |
| Trends in the efficiency of Federal Reserve check processing operations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
57 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
424 |
| Turbulent Years for U.S. Banks: 2000-20 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
8 |
15 |
| Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor |
0 |
1 |
5 |
245 |
6 |
14 |
37 |
647 |
| WHEN BIAS KILLS THE VARIANCE: CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS FOR DEA AND FDH EFFICIENCY SCORES |
0 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
2 |
10 |
11 |
88 |
| Wage variation resulting from staggered work hours |
0 |
0 |
0 |
36 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
136 |
| Why do Banks Disappear? The Determinants of U.S. Bank Failures and Acquisitions |
0 |
2 |
14 |
611 |
4 |
16 |
58 |
1,635 |
| Total Journal Articles |
8 |
44 |
184 |
9,470 |
107 |
585 |
1,373 |
28,433 |
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