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Parallel Imports and Music CD Prices
Chen, Yeh-ning; Png, I.P.L. - EconWPA - 2004
Parallel imports are a significant academic and policy issue. Official investigations into the impact of parallel imports on music CD prices have reached widely conflicting conclusions. This note reports an event study on an international panel of changes in copyright law to permit or disallow...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556152
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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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Does Globalization Affect Growth?
Dreher, Axel - EconWPA - 2002
The paper presents an index of globalization covering its three main dimensions: economic integration, social … globalization as well as sub-indexes constructed to measure the single dimensions on economic growth are analyzed empirically. The … results show that globalization promotes growth - but not to an extent necessary to reduce poverty on a large scale. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556005
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
, globalization; general welfare, social security and public pensions, macroeconomics – Asia including Middle East; macroeconomic …
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Politico-Economic Determinants of American Trade Policy Attitudes
Hoffman, Michael E. S. - EconWPA - 2005
the public perception of globalization, and the political response to those perceptions. Using detailed response and … demographic data from the Program on International Policy Attitudes survey “Americans on Globalization, Trade, and Farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556433
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Skriptum: Europäisches und internationales Sozialrecht. Europäische und internationale Sozialpoltik
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
LISTE EINIGER WICHTIGER ABKÜRZUNGEN 4 ZUM GELEIT 6 EINFÜHRUNG UND PROBLEMAUFRISS - INTERNATIONALE SOZIALPOLITIK BEDEUTET FÖRDERUNG DER KONVERGENZ DER LEBENSBEDINGUNGEN 7 TEIL A: SOZIALRECHT UND SOZIALPOLITIK DER EU 14 1) ENTWICKLUNGSLINIEN UND GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER EUROPÄISCHEN SOZIALPOLITIK...
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Rethinking Taxation:The Automated Payment Transaction (APT)Tax
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper examines the desirability and feasibility of replacing the present system of personal and corporate income, sales, excise, capital gains, import and export duties, gift and estate taxes with a single comprehensive revenue neutral Automated Payment Transaction (APT) tax. In its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556920
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Global Idea Sourcing - An empirical investigation into the mechanisms behind the usage of foreign business sources for innovation
Sofka, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2005
Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications …, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561402
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CAN WE DISCERN THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION? EVIDENCE FROM HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003
The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While … presents another attempt to discern the effects of globalization by using the new data derived directly from household surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561550