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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies
Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005
2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
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Product Variety under Brand Influence: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Computer Demand
HUI, Kai-Lung - EconWPA - 2002
literature does not measure how brand value affects product similarity and consumer choice. This paper examines demand response …
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Valuation Equilibria
Jehiel, Philippe; Samet, Dov - EconWPA - 2003
. The moves of each player are partitioned into similarity classes. A valuation of the player is a real valued function on … the set of her similarity classes. At each node a player chooses a move that belongs to a class with maximum valuation … similarity class is the player expected payoff given that the path (induced by the strategy profile) intersects the similarity …
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W.E. Johnson’s 1913 Paper and the Question of His Knowledge of Pareto
Moscati, Ivan - EconWPA - 2005
In 1913, the Cambridge logician W.E. Johnson published a famous article on demand theory in the Economic Journal. Although Johnson’s treatment of the subject strongly resembles the analysis set forth by Pareto in the Manual of Political Economy, Johnson does not cite the Italian economist....
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Spillovers Reconsidered: Analysing Economic Welfare under Complementarities in R&D
Graevenitz, Georg von - EconWPA - 2005
We analyse economic welfare in R&D intensive industries under varying assumptions on the spillover process. The focus lies on spillover processes with complementary R&D investments such as those modelling absorptive capacity. There spillovers give rise to both negative and positive...
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Complementarity, Search, and Price Dispersion
Rauh, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
We study an equilibrium sequential search model where buyers have potentially downward-sloping demand and with bilateral heterogeneity in buyers' search costs and firms' production costs. We show that downward- sloping demand and heterogeneity in production costs are necessary to ensure price...
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Die ökonomischen Effekte der Hochschulausgaben des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt – Fiskalische, Humankapital- und Kapazitätseffekte der Hochschulen in Magdeburg (Teil 2)
Rosner, Ulf; Weimann, Joachim - EconWPA - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert, in welchem Umfang und auf welchen Wegen der Wissens- und Humankapitaltransfer durch die Otto-von-Guericke- Universität Magdeburg und die Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) in die Wirtschaft Sachsen-Anhalts stattfindet. Ausgehend von der wirtschaftlichen Ausgangslage...
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Environmental Technology Transfer in a FDI Regime A Developing Country Perspective
One, Author; Two, Author; Thirdone, U. - EconWPA - 2002
The environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment is still to be explored totally. It is often argued that investment may come to a region or country where environment protection norms are less strict. Investors may be induced to outsource their pollution-intensive production where the...
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IE WP 01/03 Technology transfer and sustainable development in emerging economies
Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier; Chafla, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
This paper aims to show how the process of diffusion of 'clean technologies' confronts a variety of forces at the macro level that create systematic, technological and institutional barriers to their adoption. There is abundant literature on the role of technology transfer in the development of...
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Hidden Costs of Technology Transfer
Gürak, H. - EconWPA - 2003
Global operations of Giant Firms seem to restructure the division of production and income distribution on a global scale while increasing the interdependence of nations. In this process, the FDIs seem to be the principal mechanism linking national economies, in addition to trade. But,...
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