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This paper assesses financial sector development in Latin America, both in the banking system and in the capital markets. After a brief review of the explanatory factors and the definitions of financial development found in the literature, Latin American countries are classified in groups of...
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A problemática deste artigo centra-se nas diferenças de competitividade entre interior e litoral, tomando os territórios concelhios como espaço de análise. Não obstante as enormes diferenças conhecidas, supôs-se poder existir um potencial de competitividade nas cidades do interior do...
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The selection of ‘representative’ farms in farm level modelling where results are aggregated to the sector level is critically important if the effects of aggregation bias are to be reduced. The process of selecting representative farms normally involves the use of cluster analysis where the...
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Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...
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the related phenomenon of standardization. Secondly, it aims to show a broadened and evolutionary view of the process of … technology standardization, avoiding the habitual determinism of conventional models of technology diffusion and lock-in. Finally … attributes of the technology standardization processes in them. To achieve these goals we have developed an agent based model …
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Information intermediaries deliver information about a supplier's product. They are paid by those same suppliers they certify. This introduces conflicts of interests as the intermediaries want to retain customers by delivering truthful information about suppliers, while suppliers would want the...
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Flat – rated internet pricing is increasingly becoming the most common mode of dial - up access nowadays. However, the … always the case, both sides are probably right. This paper addresses an important issue on dial up internet access and … end and assuming flat – rated internet pricing, several interconnection models are studied. Among the metered models, the …
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and services via Internet. The remote banking becomes one of the main channels for bank services distribution. This paper … services available via Internet; online application forms; online banking application; other online/remote services. In spite … of the small number of Bulgarian banks, which offer their products and services via Internet, the research shows that …
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services via Internet. The remote banking become one of the main channels for bank services distribution. The Internet … expansion of the Bulgarian banks is at its beginning. The showed results are based on the Internet research, which has aimed to … describe actual picture of Bulgarian banks present in Internet. …
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the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet …
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