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Systemic Risk in the Financial Industry: Mimetism for the Best and for the Worst

Warin, Thierry; Prasch, Robert E. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

In the wake of the worst financial crisis since 1929, economists are revisiting the received understanding of how financial markets and institutions actually operate. This paper aims to contribute to this reexamination. It builds upon the traditional and widely-accepted mean-variance approach to...

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Le projet Harmonie

Landry, Richard; Rivard, Suzanne - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000

Managing large software project in general, and the implementation of ERPs in particular, entails several risks. Such was project Harmonie the implementation of SAP R/3 in support of the human resources, finance, and materials management processes at Hydro-Quebec. The size of the project, along...

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Évaluation du risque en gestion de projets

Bourdeau, Simon; Rivard, Suzanne; Barki, Henri - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2003

Notwithstanding the domain of activities where they are conducted, projects often entail risks, and risk management has been widely recognized as a success factor in project management. While several lists of risk factors have been proposed in several domains, there exists no generic tool for...

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Learning Conditions in the Context of R&D and Development Projects: Empirical Evidence from a Research Centre

Bourgault, Mario; Sicotte, Hélène - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1998

Today's changing environment is bringing about a major transformation of the way organizations operate. Most of the discussion about such evolving environment focuses on the necessity for organizations to continuously renew their stock of knowledge and competencies. This renewal takes place...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity

Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2012

Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …

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Collaboration and contracting out versus funding and support Impact on the propensity to patent of Canadian biotechnology firms 1999-2005

Beaudry, Catherine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011

Using the four Biotechnology Uses and Development surveys of Statistics Canada, we analyse the relative importance of funding and support as well as collaboration and contracting, R&D and IP strategies on the propensity to patent of Canadian biotechnology firms. Our model accounts for the...

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The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?

Ambec, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A.; Elgie, Stewart; Lanoie, Paul - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

Twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter stood conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business on its head by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of...

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The Economics of Free and Open Source Software: Contributions to a Government Policy on Open Source Software

Boyer, Marcel; Robert, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006

This document seeks to lay the groundwork for a government policy on free and open source software. We briefly characterize the extent of the open source software phenomenon. We analyse its pros and cons for the government, in its role as both an engine of economic development and a large user...

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L'économie du logiciel libre et ouvert<br>Recommandations en vue d'une politique gouvernementale à l'égard du logiciel libre (open source software)

Boyer, Marcel; Robert, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2005

Ce texte vise à circonscrire les fondements d'une politique gouvernementale à l'égard du logiciel libre et ouvert (open source software). Nous caractérisons brièvement l'ampleur du phénomène du logiciel libre et nous en analysons les avantages et inconvénients pour le gouvernement tant...

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