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Économie de la PME : de l’artefact statistique à une réalité économique

Bernard, Paranque - EconWPA - 2003

Cet essai traite de ce qu’on appelle habituellement les PME ( Petites et Moyennes entreprises, incluant donc les TPE, très petites entreprises). Mais il pose en préambule la question de la pertinence, d’un point de vue économique, de cette catégorie statistique, définie, par exemple,...

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Toward a Cognitive Experimental Economics

Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2002

This paper aims to analyze and exemplify some methodological implications on the way to conduct experiments related to the adoption of a cognitive approach in Economics. Many differences arise in relation to a more traditional way. In fact cognitive economics has strong descriptive attention and...

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Use of ICTs and the Economic Performance of SMEs in East Africa

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Wolf, Susanna - EconWPA - 2004

This paper assesses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their impact on the economic performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) of three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Findings of the paper suggest that the diffusion of ICT among...

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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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Measuring Loss Potential of Hedge Fund Strategies

Prado, Marcos Mailoc López de; Peijan, Achim - EconWPA - 2005

We measure the loss potential of Hedge Funds by combining three market risk measures: VaR, Draw-Down and Time Under … results clearly state that market risk may be substantially underestimated by those models which assume Normality or, even … considering Non-Normality, neglect to model time- dependence. Moreover, VaR is an incomplete measure of market risk whenever the …

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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition

Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we try to explain some restructuring patterns of Czech textile and clothing industries from a microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994,...

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SECTEURS DE FINANCEMENT ET GESTION DE LA RENTABILITE Flexibilité financière et performances - Sectors of financing and profitability

Bernard, Paranque - EconWPA - 2004

Le présent article se situe dans le prolongement d’un précédent travail exploratoire sur les régimes de financement et se réfère à l’économie des conventions. Cette problématique ne se prête que difficilement à l’observation dans la mesure où nombre des modalités y concourrant...

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Goodwill des groupes français de 1992 à 2002 - French group goodwill from 1992 to 2002

Bernard, Paranque - EconWPA - 2004

La fin des années 90 et le début des années 2000 ont été marqués par de fortes progression des goodwill des entreprises non financières débouchant sur un brutal retournement. Nombreux sont ceux qui ont alors mis en cause les marchés financiers, en particulier les grandes firmes et leurs...

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Capacity Utilization in Indian Paper Industry

Barik, Kaustuva - EconWPA - 2005

The study estimates the rate of capacity utilization for the Indian paper industry for the period 1973-74 to 1997-98 on the basis of the theoretical framework of variable cost function. It is based on the basic premise that deviation from full utilization of capacity takes place as the levels of...

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Lobbying, Information Transmission, and Unequal Representation

Lagerlof, Johan; Frisell, Lars - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission between a lobbyist and a policymaker. Employing a dynamic cheap-talk model in which the lobbyist cares instrumentally about his reputation for truthtelling, we show that the...

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