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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
reconstructed by modelling the functioning of their cognitive processes when innovations appear. Recognition of the possibilities … propagates to the whole economy triggering an investments upswing. likewise, unsuccessful innovations can trigger a downswing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077089
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The Demand for Stored Value Payment Instruments
Ingo, Pippow; Detlef, Schoder - EconWPA - 2002
Due to their functionality, stored value purses based on smart card technology are prominent candidates for being the dominant medium of exchange for micropayments. However, the overall prospects of these payment systems are yet ambiguous, both from the perspective of practice and monetary...
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The Role of R&D Technology in Asymmetric Research Joint Ventures
Dakhlia, Sami; Menezes, Flavio M.; Temimi, Akram - EconWPA - 2005
We characterize asymmetric equilibria in two-stage process innovation games and show that they are prevalent in the different models of R&D technology considered in the literature. Indeed, cooperation in R&D may be accompanied by high concentration in the product market. We show that while such...
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Value Creation and Profit Optimization
Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...
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Incentives and spillovers in R&D activities: an agency-theoretic analysis of industry-university relations
Lacetera, Nicola - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper, I study industry-university relations in a principal- agent framework. Following the existing literature, these relations are interpreted in two ways: (1) as occurring through spillovers of knowledge among different groups of researchers, working for different institutional...
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Economies of scale and technological development in securities depository and settlement systems
Schmiedel, Heiko; Malkamäki, Markku; Tarkka, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
The paper investigates the existence and extent of economies of scale in depository and settlement systems. Evidence from 16 settlement institutions across different regions for the years 1993–2000 indicates the existence of significant economies of scale. The degree of such economies,...
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Economies of scale and technological development in securities depository and settlement systems
Schmiedel, Heiko; Malkamäki, Markku; Tarkka, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
The paper investigates the existence and extent of economies of scale in depository and settlement systems. Evidence from 16 settlement institutions across different regions for the years 1993–2000 indicates the existence of significant economies of scale. The degree of such economies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135106
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Biased Technical Change and the Malmquist Productivity Index
Fare, R.; Grifell-Tatje, E.; Grosskopf, S.; Lovell, C.A.K. - EconWPA - 1995
The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …
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REDEFINED PRODUCTIVITY & SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED MANAGEMENT DECISIONS.
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2004
In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions … InputQuantum ratio also for a favourable condition. This is presented in 2.Part1:Expanded Productivity Algebraic Model Part2 …:Integrated Management Decision Algebraic Model. CONCEPTS DERIVED :- (SED=SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNITS)01.PRODUCTIVITY …
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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.
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