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George Hoffer

Professor Emeritus of Economics, VCU
Verified email at vcu.edu
Cited by 1558

A family of new cobalt‐base permanent magnet materials

K Strnat, G Hoffer, J Olson, W Ostertag… - Journal of Applied …, 1967 - pubs.aip.org
The magnetocrystalline anisotropy of several intermetallic phases of the type RCo 5 (R = Y,
Ce, Pr, Sm, Y‐rich and Ce‐rich mischmetals) has been investigated, and it is concluded that …

The impact of product recalls on the wealth of sellers: A reexamination

GE Hoffer, SW Pruitt, RJ Reilly - Journal of Political Economy, 1988 - journals.uchicago.edu
… (1981) and Reilly and Hoffer (1983), we categorized each recall as trivial, intermediate, or
severe. Of the 29 clean-window recalls, 62 percent were of the most severe type, 28 percent …

Magnetocrystalline anisotropy of YCo5and Y2Co17

G Hoffer, K Strnat - IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1966 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The magnetocrystalline anisotropy constants of two ferromagnetic intermetallic compounds,
YCo 5 and Y 2 Co 17 , have been measured at room temperature. YCo 5 has a magnetically …

Coordinates for instant image cloning

Z Farbman, G Hoffer, Y Lipman, D Cohen-Or… - ACM Transactions on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
… Thus, we progressively low-pass filter f∗ −g to obtain adequately bandlimited values at
each hierarchy level, before computing the interpolants at any of the mesh vertices. …

Superconductive bolometers for submillimeter wavelengths

J Clarke, GI Hoffer, PL Richards, NH Yeh - Journal of Applied Physics, 1977 - pubs.aip.org
… For bolometer applications in which the absorbed background power eP B is large, the value
of G required to keep the bolometer cold can be sufficiently large that G >'> we, In this limit, …

Are drivers of air-bag-equipped cars more aggressive? A test of the offsetting behavior hypothesis

S Peterson, G Hoffer, E Millner - The journal of law and …, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Using different tests, but relying on similar data sets, Hoffer and Millner as well as Peterson
and Hoffer found that relative injury and absolute collision losses for a model usually …

Will retarding the information flow on automobile recalls affect consumer demand?

RJ Reilly, GE Hoffer - Economic Inquiry, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Recently the National Highway Traffic Administration changed its policy concerning the
public announcement of safety‐related automotive recalls. This paper examines whether …

Testing the impact of recalls on the demand for automobiles

SM Crafton, GE Hoffer, RJ Reilly - Economic Inquiry, 1981 - search.proquest.com
RECALLS AND THE DEMAND FOR AUTOMOBILES 695 change and supply constraints.
Defining the subcompact market in the US to include eight makes, the authors developed …

Geochemical and petrological constraints on rear-arc magma genesis processes in Ecuador: The Puyo cones and Mera lavas volcanic formations

G Hoffer, JP Eissen, B Beate, E Bourdon… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Puyo scoria cones and the Mera lava flows, two newly recognized volcanic formations
dated between Late Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene, extend the limits of the Ecuadorian rear-…

Test of the lemons model: comment

MD Pratt, GE Hoffer - The American Economic Review, 1984 - JSTOR
In a recent article in this Review, Eric Bond (1982) provided an empirical test of the" lemons"
model. Using the 1977 Truck Inventory and Use (TIU) Survey, Bond determined that there …