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Vaporware
Levy, Stephan M. - EconWPA - 1995
This essay explores why firms would want to practice vaporware -- the issuance of intentionally false product announcements. In my model, a firm is able to release an upgraded version of its original product. However, consumers do not know the date at which the upgrade will first become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076858
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Competition and Innovation - Microeconometric Evidence Using Finnish Data
Kilponen, Juha; Santavirta, Torsten - EconWPA - 2005
innovation measures derived from patent data. We also find that the inverted-U relationship tends to be steeper when also R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134490
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Payment systems efficiency, policy approaches, and the role of the central bank
Khiaonarong, Tanai - EconWPA - 2004
payments system. And third, regulatory and financial innovations, in addition to technological means, are found to be equally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134703
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INOVATIONS - ENTREPRENEURSHIP - CREDIT in the Theory of  J.A. Schumpeter
Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005
Short explanation of Schumpeter's concepts of dynamics, innovations and entrepreneurship. It is argued, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062408
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Understanding Patents: The Role of R&D Funding Sources and the Patent Office
Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting process. Another important contribution is modeling the effect of a random delay in the ‘pendency’ time as a stochastic process and quantifying its effect on patenting. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561418
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Stable pricing in multiproduct natural monopoly (in French)
Iehlé, Vincent - EconWPA - 2004
We provide some existence results of stable pricings for natural monopoly as defined in the theory of contestable markets. The main addings are based on the assumption of separated markets and the possibilities of entries. We borrow tools from cooperative game theory. Following the work of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125630
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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais
Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005
of the sustainability of the Valais’ public debt in order to determine if its level is excessive or not. …
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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"
Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062608
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003
of sustainability while establishing a consistent system of units for both the solar flux and economic transformation … processes. Conditions for a virtuous cycle dynamic in relation to sustainability is expressed, adhering to non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062749