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A literature review suggested that behavioral changes occur more rapidly when the learner assumed responsibility … field experiments. It produced more than twice as many long-term behavioral changes. It was superior also for attitude …
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Bidders have to decide whether and when to incur the cost of estimating their own values in auctions. This can explain why people seem to get carried away, bidding higher than they had planned before the auction and then finding they had paid more than the object was worth to them. Even when...
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In 1999, the Commonwealth Government referred the Broadcasting Services Act and related legislation to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report within twelve months. The inquiry stems from the Government’s commitment under the Competition Principles Agreement to review legislation...
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, consumers tend to perceive as a grouping the organic production movement and the integrated agricultural movement, as they both … deal with the environment. By contrast, consumers tend to group the fair trade movement and the ethical trade movement, as …
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This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of "Japanese" versus "American" organizational structures...
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diversity of products ( generic or dedicated ) and of organisation ( specifics or not specifics assets ) does not create … action system, i.e. a choice of products and of organisation which allow them to be profitable. …
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talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …
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It is difficult, even in 2005, to write the peaceful history of the French Institute of Chartered Accountants. Almost everywhere, it is written that it was founded in 1945. It would be more accurate to say that it was re-constituted in 1945. It was actually created in 1942 and its origins are...
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the past two decades, the return to college education has increased relative to high school education leading economists … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative … relationship between education spending and savings rates across OECD countries. In this paper, we present a model where a …
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