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This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is whether to offer free samples and if so, whether to list the samples on shareware repositories. I show that firms with higher value products have a greater incentive to offer free...
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This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is whether to offer free samples and if so, whether to list the samples on shareware repositories. I show that firms with higher value products have a greater incentive to offer free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970309
The financial intermediation function that a bank performs dictates the existence of a risk-reward trade-off embedded … optimality of a bank's risk-reward trade-off. Conventional accounting-based performance measures such as return on assets and … return on equity do not incorporate the risk effects as part of the performance assessment. Risk-adjusted performance …
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discusses the status and performance of these state renewable or ''clean'' energy funds supported by system-benefits charges. As … failures are unavoidable. Also evident is that states are taking very different approaches to the distribution of these funds …
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The performance of a calorimeter is usually evaluated by constructing a Shewhart control chart of its measurement … adjusted limits based on an approximate Student`s t-distribution for the measurement errors and discuss the limitations of this …
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applications, approving loan guarantees, and monitoring project and loan guarantee performance. through December 2008, the …, renewable energy, advanced electricity transmission and distribution, and nuclear and fossil energy projects. These …
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parameter estimation for these models. This paper describes an approach in which system performance is simulated by drawing … samples from the joint distributions of dependent variables. The approach relies on the notion of a copula distribution, a …
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If logistics can be considered an assembly of methods, functions, and ways used by a company with the purpose of giving clients the goods taken at a low price and in a period of time according to clients’ expectations, taking into consideration the quantities settled by contract, we can say...
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less innovation activity. In this study we investigate the innovation activity of 436 German manufacturing firms differing … management are detrimental to firm innovation, at the same time family control has a positive impact on innovation activities …
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less innovation activity. In this study we investigate the innovation activity of 436 German manufacturing firms differing … management are detrimental to firm innovation, at the same time family control has a positive impact on innovation activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984777