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This book develops and illustrates a comprehensive, multi-level framework for the evaluation of industrial R&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be...
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This innovative book analyses the geographical patterns in foreign direct investment flows by combining elements from the theory of international production and the theory of economic geography. It develops a model for explaining why foreign direct investment is attracted to certain locations....
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implications are tested in a comparative study of competitive performance in the EU, Japan and the USA. Typical mechanisms of …
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Enlargement of the EU increases economic diversity and inequality between countries and regions, making cohesion … entrepreneurship; a crucial factor in reducing the economic disparity caused by the geographic expansion of the EU. The book offers new … individual and cross-country analyses. FDI in accession countries is examined, as is the effect of EU integration on own …
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concentrated in complaints related to lax data security and privacy, identified using keyword searches and machine learning on …
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Using only 34 published tables, we reconstruct five variables (census block, sex, age, race, and ethnicity) in the confidential 2010 Census person records. Using the 38-bin age variable tabulated at the census block level, at most 20.1% of reconstructed records can differ from their confidential...
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. Privacy concerns have prompted regulations that restrict the use of personal data. To inform these policy debates, we develop … an equilibrium model of advertising and market structure to analyze the impact of privacy regulation on market outcomes … potential harms to both firms and consumers from privacy regulation …
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Third-party cookies and related 'offsite' tracking technologies are frequently used to share user data across applications in support of ad delivery. These data are viewed as highly valuable for online advertisers, but their usage faces increasing headwinds. In this paper, we quantify the...
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Low unionization rates, a falling real federal minimum wage, and outsourcing have hampered wage growth in the low-wage sector in the US. In recent years, a number of private employers have opted to institute or raise company-wide minimum wages for their employees, sometimes in response to public...
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