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El Geomarketing y la distribución comercial

Chasco-Yrigoyen, Coro - EconWPA - 2004

Geomarketing is a powerfull recently developed scientific methodology which allows decision makers to visualise marketing strategies and discover those areas that are most likely to produce results. Marketing and geography leads to a whole system and provides adequate tools to analyse the...

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The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change

Dow, Gregory K.; Olewiler, Nancy; Reed, Clyde G. - EconWPA - 2005

Until about 13,000 years ago all humans obtained their food through hunting and gathering, but thereafter people in some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving force behind the agricultural transition in southwest Asia....

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Population distribution and telecommunication costs

Cribbett, Peter - EconWPA - 2001

This paper examines the impact of population distribution on the costs of providing local telephone service. The study was undertaken to examine the extent to which price differences in international comparisons of telecommunications costs can be attributed to differences in the distribution of...

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SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYMENT AND POPULATION DENSITY: THE CASE OF THE AGGLOMERATION OF DIJON, 1999

Baumont, Catherine; Ertur, Cem; Gallo, Julie Le - EconWPA - 2003

The aim of this paper is to analyze the intra-urban spatial distributions of population and employment in the agglomeration of Dijon (regional capital of Burgundy, France). We study whether this agglomeration has followed the general tendency of job decentralization observed in most urban areas...

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The Changing Concept of Financial Risk

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

financial risk based on asset classes only is ready for a epistemological change. Currently, the definition of financial risk … suffers from three major deficiencies: (1) financial risk is insufficiently measured by the conventional second - order … moments; (2) financial risk is assumed to be stable and all distribution moments are assumed to be time-invariant; and (3 …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries?

Neumayer, Eric; Spess, Laura - EconWPA - 2004

Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to- state dispute settlement...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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