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Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

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Shattering the Myth of Costless Price Changes: Emerging Perspectives on Dynamic Pricing

Bergen, Mark; Ritson, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we argue that pricing is all about price changes, and that the costs of price changes are often simultaneously subtle and substantial. We discuss a framework to deal with the dynamics of changing prices. This framework incorporates customer interpretations of price changes, an...

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Comparison between minimum purchase, quantity flexibility contracts and spot procurement in a supply chain

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

When, in a supply chain, a supplier and a buyer have the choice of transaction form to do business, the equilibrium transaction form which emerges is much more constrained than previously envisaged in literature. In this paper, two forms of long-term supply contracts and procurement in the spot...

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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...

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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy – an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2003

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD … endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that globalization (measured by an index covering 23 variables) did not generally … decrease the leeway for independent economic policy. Globalization even increased implicit tax rates on capital (as calculated …

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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and …

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GLOBALIZATION AND GOALS: Does soccer show the way?

Milnaovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

foreign clubs. This provides an example as how forces of efficiency but also inequality unleashed by globalization can be …

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A TALE OF TWO “GLOBALIZATIONS”: CAPITAL FLOWS FROM RICH TO POOR IN TWO ERAS OF GLOBAL FINANCE

Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005

globalization. The paper extends recent research on the developmental effects of international financial integration, long …-term trends in capital mobility and “globalization in historical perspective”. Analyzing the patterns of international financial … a central element of 19th century financial globalization, but plays only a minor role today. The Lucas paradox of …

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The Empire Effect: Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880-1913

Ferguson, Niall; Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005

conclude that these findings have important implications for the current globalization debate: lacking jurisdictional …

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Uneven geographies of organizational practice: explaining the cross-national transfer and adoption of ISO 9000

Neumayer, Eric; Perkins, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

associated with a high number of certificates. We conclude that globalization has increased the mobility of organizational …

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