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The public and private spheres of knowledge within the field of space communications
HASSAN, emmanuel - EconWPA - 2002
The purpose of this paper is to examine the modalities of the organization of R&D activities between the main institutional sectors (higher-education, government, industry) within the field of space communications in the Triad countries. The analysis of these modalities is complex since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134489
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Modeling the Effect of Rigidity in Organizational Structure on Organizational Self-Renewal and Knowledge Diffusion: A Theoretical Framework
Datta, Avimanyu; RayChaudhuri, Sukumar - EconWPA - 2005
-renewal exercise and diffusion of knowledge. Ironically, the model also shows that absence of any structure also has a negative impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408240
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
In most OECD countries, the business services industry has grown much faster than the market sector as a whole. The industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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The LaTeX project: A case study of open-source software
Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004
This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412972
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Tijuana's Dynamic Unemployment and Output Growth
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004
restructuring of its economy. Surprisingly, the reform process seems to have had little impact on unemployment. An analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408347
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Counting chickens when they hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth
Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil - EconWPA - 2004
Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … positive, causal relationship between this 'short-impact' aid and economic growth (with diminishing returns) over a four …-year period. The impact is large: at least two-to-three times larger than in studies using aggregate aid. Even at a conservatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408143
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Exogenous shocks and real estate rental markets: An event study of the 9/11 attacks and their impact on the New York office market
Fuerst, Franz - EconWPA - 2005
Any attempt to measure the impact of the 9/11 attacks is faced with the difficulty of separating the effects of the … attacks from the impact of a wider economic recession and other simultaneous events. This study attempts to isolate the effect … of their spatial and temporal impact. While the New York office market as a whole has demonstrated remarkable resiliency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561660
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International versus Domestic Auditing of Bank Solvency
Feltenstein, Andrew; Lagunoff, Roger - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines alternative ways to prevent losses from bank insolvencies. It is widely viewed that transparency in reporting bank balance sheets is a key element in reducing such losses. It is, however, unclear just how such transparency would be achieved. Current approaches to avoiding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076731
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Book-Tax Gap. An Income Horse Race
Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents some stylised facts about the book-tax gap, i.e. the difference between book and taxable income, of Italian corporations. This divergence is a reflection of the usage of any tax shields and any applicable credits and rebates which, in turn, implies that the concept of taxable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125996
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Depreciation Rates in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
Lizal, Lubomir - EconWPA - 2001
This paper examines industrial differences in depreciation rates and the suitability of financial data for a microeconomic analysis. Depreciation is a main source of enterprise investment and serves as a source for replacement of obsolete or used-up capital. The findings on capital structure in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413248