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The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...
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El documento analiza la evolución del costo de uso del capital en el periodo 1997 –2003 en Colombia. A diferencia de los trabajos anteriores se construye una serie del costo de uso del capital a partir de la información suministrada por las empresas a la Superintendencia de Sociedades, lo...
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Open source software development has organizational characteristics that are out of the ordinary (e.g., flatter hierarchy, self-organization, self-regulation, and no ownership structure). The study suggests that this organization of work can be explained by combining the recently developed...
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During the 1990's, Mexico successfully implemented a program of economic reforms and free trade aimed at a complete restructuring of its economy. Surprisingly, the reform process seems to have had little impact on unemployment. An analysis of trends indicates that, even in the worst years of...
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A number of papers in the theoretical auction literature show that the release of information regarding the seller’s valuation of an item can cause bidders to bid more aggressively. This widely accepted result in auction theory remains largely untested in the empirical literature. Recent...
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This is a monograph that presents both a comprehensive literature review and original research results on the diffusion and the implications of e-business technologies. The diffusion of e-business technologies among firms is regarded as part of the ongoing process of technological change and...
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This essay will consider the relevance of the social sciences - especially economics - to the foundations of sustainable development. Looming environmental crises have served as a prime motivating force for reevaluating fundamental principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability,...
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We model a homogeneous product environment where identical e-retailers endogenously engage in both brand advertising …; indeed, we show that price advertising is a substitute for brand advertising. In contrast to models where loyalty is … of these equilibria, including the limit equilibrium. While each firm finds it optimal to advertise its brand in an …
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dependence on foreign subcontractors, they should create a brand mark image. Inside this new digital and interactive context …
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