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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies

Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005

of the ongoing process of technological change and economic development. It is shown that increasing returns to adoption … for the technological development of a firm and adoption decision today affect the expected value of any other related … 2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

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STOCK MARKET VALUATION IN THE UNITED STATES

BISCIARI, Patrick; DURRE, Alain; NYSSENS, Alain - EconWPA - 2003

This paper gives an overview of some issues related to market aluation, focusing on the developments on the New York equity markets. The 42.4 p.c. fall in the S&P 500 price index between 24 March 2000 - when it reached its all-time high - and 31 December 2002 is situated in a very long term...

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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade

Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003

This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading...

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Why Individual Investors Want Dividends

Dong, Ming; Robinson, Chris; Veld, Chris - EconWPA - 2004

The question of why individual investors want dividends is investigated by submitting a questionnaire to a Dutch investor panel. The respondents indicate that they want dividends partly because the cost of cashing in dividends is lower than the cost of selling shares. Their answers provide...

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and … investment climate. The survey findings suggest that key policy, institutional and governance indicators affect the growth of a …

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Offshore investment by Australian firms: survey evidence

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This paper presents the findings of a new survey by the Commission on what motivates Australian firms to operate or … Australian firms of operations overseas typically complements their domestic activities. The survey confirms that relatively few …

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The Economic Costs of Corruption: A Survey and New Evidence

Dreher, Axel; Herzfeld, Thomas - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption affects economic growth, the level of GDP per capita, investment activity, international trade and price stability negatively. Additionally, it biases the composition of government expenditures. The...

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ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES IN NPD PROJECTS WITHIN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE VALENCIAN REGION (SPAIN)

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala; Melón, Mónica García - EconWPA - 2005

The decisions made during the design process have a critical impact both on the design solution obtained but also on the design process itself. It can be observed that while the way in which products are developed differs not only across firms but within the same firm over time, what is being...

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MyQuestLight User’s Guide

Yossifov, Plamen - EconWPA - 2003

MyQuestLight is a free Excel add-in for processing questionnaire responses, which can be downloaded from IDEAS (search under Software Components). It leverages on Excel’s flexibility in organizing data, supplementing it with a set of powerful tools for automating the inputting of questionnaire...

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Risk and Insurance in Sharecropping

Braido, Luis H.B. - EconWPA - 2005

This essay summarizes some recent empirical contributions on two aspects of sharecropping: (i) the effects of the contractual form (incentive power and contract length) on resource allocation and farm performance; and (ii) the exogenous elements behind the choice of different contractual forms.

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