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Growth patterns and economic performance of french manufacturing firms

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

identify specific types of economic behaviour and to relate them to companies' investment, and particularly intangible …

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Corporate behaviour and competitive forces

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

The purpose of this article is to propose a typology of the economic behaviour of French industrial companies in 1993 … behaviour and the competitive forces ( M. Porter, 1986 ) affecting these companies is then examined on the basis of a sub-set of …

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

. But the dimension of the Combrain behaviour is wide&cover the whole world with Internet. Even if they are a menace, it …

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Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2001

This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for recent theoretical studies in economics. After defining the economic globalization and schematizing its relations with international trade, economic growth and technological change,...

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Asymmetric Information and Outcome-based Compensation in Health Care – Theoretical Implications

Schneider, Udo - EconWPA - 2005

The discussion about health care systems focuses on the dynamics of expenditures and on the weak growth of revenues. In …. Second, a double moral hazard model is developed. Here, the patient’s actions influence health outcome and cannot be … asymmetric information. In addition, lack of knowledge about health status and productivity of health inputs prevent a solution …

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Cultural Effects of Trade Liberalization

Suranovic, Steven M.; Winthrop, Robert - EconWPA - 2005

We incorporate culture into a standard trade model in two distinct ways. In the ¡°cultural affinity from work¡± model, workers receive a non- pecuniary cultural benefit from work in a particular industry. In the ¡°cultural externality¡± model, consumers of a product receive utility from...

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How Do People Learn by Listening to Others? Experimental Evidence from Thailand

Healy, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents experimental evidence about how individuals learn from information that comes from inside versus outside their ethnic group. In the experiment, Thai subjects observed information that came from Americans and other Thais that they could use to help them answer a series of...

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Necessary Conditions for Improving Civic Competence: A Scientific Perspective

Lupia, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

Many attempts to increase civic competence are based on premises about communication and belief change that are directly contradicted by important insights from microeconomic theory and social psychology. At least two economic literatures are relevant to my effort to improve matters. One is the...

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A Behavioral Model of Cyclical Dieting

Suranovic, Steven M.; Goldfarb, Robert S. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents a behavioral economics model with bounded rationality to describe an individual¡¯s food consumption choices that lead to weight gain and dieting. Using a physiological relationship determining calories needed to maintain weight, we simulate the food consumption choices of a...

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An Economic Model of Youth Smoking: Tax and Welfare Effects

Suranovic, Steven M. - EconWPA - 2005

smoking than informational campaigns that emphasize future health costs. However, youth taxes would have to be quite high to …

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