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The effects of uncertainty avoidance on brand performance: Marketing creativity, product innovation and the brand duration
Giarratana, Marco S.; Torres, Anna - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007
creativity by increasing the complexity and the broadness of a brand. It determines also the rate of firm product innovations …. Marketing creativity and product innovation influence finally the firm marketing performance. Empirically, we study trademarked … complexity and the broadness of a trademark as a measure of marketing creativity and the rate of product innovations. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827442
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A century of global equity market correlations
Quinn, Dennis; Voth, Joachim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
In this paper, we use a unique long-run dataset of regulatory constraints on capital account openness to explain stock market correlations. Since stock returns themselves are highly volatile, any examination of what drives correlations needs to focus on long runs of data. This is particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827461
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Perceptual mapping of practical ethics along the value chain: A multiple correspondence analysis with industry and cultural indices as supplementary variables
Guevara, Antonio Ladrón de; Torres, Anna; Tribó, Josep A. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
This paper presents findings from a study investigating a firm’s ethical practices along the value chain. In so doing we attempt to better understand potential relationships between a firm’s ethical stance with its customers and those of its suppliers within a supply chain and identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772575
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Retribution in a cheap-talk experiment
Brandts, Jordi; Charness, Gary - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999
We use a two-person 3-stage game to investigate whether people choose to punish or reward another player by sacrificing money to increase or decrease the other person's payoff. One player sends a message indicating an intended play, which is either favorable or unfavorable to the other player in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772519
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Private borrowing during the financial revolution: Hoare’s Bank and its customers, 1702-1724
Temin, Peter; Voth, Joachim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
The financial revolution improved the British government’s ability to borrow, and thus its ability to wage war. North andWeingast argued that it also permitted private parties to borrow more cheaply and widely.We test these inferences with evidence from a London bank.We confirm that private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704946
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Risk sharing with the monarch: Excusable defaults and contingent debt in the age of Philip II, 1556-1598
Drelichman, Maurizio; Voth, Joachim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
Contingent sovereign debt can create important welfare gains. Nonetheless, there is almost no issuance today. Using hand-collected archival data, we examine the first known case of large-scale use of state-contingent sovereign debt in history. Philip II of Spain entered into hundreds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321254
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The network origins of aggregate fluctuations
Acemoglu, Daron; Carvalho, Vasco; Ozdaglar, Asuman; … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
This paper argues that in the presence of intersectoral input-output linkages, microeconomic idiosyncratic shocks may lead to aggregate fluctuations. In particular, it shows that, as the economy becomes more disaggregated, the rate at which aggregate volatility decays is determined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351454
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Audit quality: Attributes, private safeguards and the role of regulation
Arruñada, Benito - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
of fee income diversification as the key ingredient of private incentives for audit quality. The role of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772180
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Inventory-routing model, for a multi-period problem with stochastic and deterministic demand
Ribeiro, Rita; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003
The need for integration in the supply chain management leads us to consider the coordination of two logistic planning functions: transportation and inventory. The coordination of these activities can be an extremely important source of competitive advantage in the supply chain management. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707973
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Teaching metaheuristics in business schools
Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
In this work we discuss some ideas and opinions related with teaching Metaheuristics in Business Schools. The main purpose of the work is to initiate a discussion and collaboration about this topic,with the final objective to improve the teaching and publicity of the area. The main topics to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771955