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Bren, Vera; ccaron; i; ccaron - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 45 (2012) 4, pp. 1529-1559

Recent studies of search theory examine how employers use a wage-setting mechanism - either by bargaining or through the posting of a non-negotiable wage offer in a job ad - to facilitate search. We contribute to this literature by examining wage posting in job ads in the US, the UK, and...

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Invention and Transfer of Climate Change--Mitigation Technologies: A Global Analysis

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Haš, Ivan; … - In: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5 (2011) 1, pp. 109-130

This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....

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On the internationalization of corporate boards: The case of Nordic firms

Oxelheim, Lars; Gregori, Aleksandra; ccaron; Randøy, Trond - In: Journal of International Business Studies 44 (2013) 3, pp. 173-194

This study investigates the internationalization of corporate boards, using a sample of 346 non-financial listed Nordic firms during 2001–2008. Given a high level of international activity, these firms have surprisingly few foreign directors. The picture of international expertise changes...

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Stock Market Reaction to Debt Financing Arrangements in Russia

Godlewski, Christophe; Fungá, Zuzana; ccaron; ová; … - In: Comparative Economic Studies 53 (2011) 4, pp. 679-693

This paper investigates stock market reaction to debt arrangements in Russia. The analysis of the valuation of debt arrangements by stock markets provides information about the use of debt by Russian companies. We apply the event study methodology to check whether debt announcements lead to...

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On Fair Routing from Emergency Departments to Hospital Wards: QED Queues with Heterogeneous Servers

Mandelbaum, Avishai; Mom, Petar; ccaron; ilovi; cacute; … - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 7, pp. 1273-1291

inverted-<i>V</i> model. We introduce the randomized most-idle (RMI) routing policy and analyze it in the quality- and … policy requires information that is unavailable in hospitals on a real-time basis. <i>This paper was accepted by Assaf Zeevi …, stochastic models and simulation.</i> …

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Species identity cues: possibilities for errors during vibrational communication on plant stems

Groot, Maarten de; Andrej; Ccaron; okl; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 22 (2011) 6, pp. 1209-1217

The efficiency of communication depends on the ability of conspecifics to recognize and locate each other, and the environment can impose important limitations on reliability of transmitted and received information. In contrast to the 3D space of airborne sound communication, substrate-borne...

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Backward FDI linkages as a channel for transferring technology and building innovation capability: The case of Slovenia

Bu, Maja; ccaron; ar; Rojec, Matija; Stare, Metka - In: The European Journal of Development Research 21 (2009) 1, pp. 137-153

Backward linkages of foreign subsidiaries with their local suppliers prove to be one of the main channels of knowledge spillovers via foreign direct investment. This paper analyses the potential of backward linkages of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia for the transfer of technology and for the...

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Why Are Criminals Less Educated than Non-Criminals? Evidence from a Cohort of Young Australian Twins

Webbink, Dinand; Koning, Pierre; Sun; ccaron; Vuji, ica; … - In: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 29 (2013) 1, pp. 115-144

in early crime. (JEL code: I2, K42). The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Yale University …

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Prospect Performance Evaluation: Making a Case for a Non-asymptotic UMPU Test

Bai, Zhidong; Hui, Yongchang; Wong, Wing-Keung; Ri; ccaron - In: Journal of Financial Econometrics 10 (2012) 4, pp. 703-732

We propose and develop mean-variance-ratio (MVR) statistics for comparing the performance of prospects (e.g., investment portfolios, assets, etc.) after the effect of the background risk has been mitigated. We investigate the performance of the statistics in large and small samples and show that...

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Avoidance of aposematic prey in European tits (Paridae): learned or innate?

Exnerová, Alice; Štys, Pavel; Fu, Eva; ccaron; íková; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 18 (2007) 1, pp. 148-156

Predators may either learn to avoid aposematic prey or may avoid it because of an innate bias. Learned as well as innate avoidance has been observed in birds, but the existing evidence is based on experiments with rather few unrelated model species. We compared the origin of avoidance in...

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