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Benchmarking the production of audit services: An efficiency frontier approach

C, Schelleman; S, Maijoor - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2000

which economics oriented research has seen many applications. The application to auditing however is, as far as we know … auditing, economics; audit production, cost and labor efficiency, stochastic frontier estimation Data availability: The data … correspondence: Caren Schelleman, Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, MARC, PO Box 616, 6200 MD …

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Learning during the New Financial Service Innovation Process: Antecedents and Performance Effects

Vera, Blazevic; Annouk, Lievens - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2003

This article theoretically and empirically examines the antecedents and consequences of project learning during the new financial service innovation process. We analyze the impact of project learning on project performance and performance of the financial institution. Next we investigate the...

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Throughput Rate Optimization in High Multiplicity Sequencing Problems

Alexander, Grigoriev; de, Klundert Joris van - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2001

Mixed model assembly systems assemble products (parts) of differenttypes in certain prespecified quantities. A minimal part set is a smallestpossible set of product type quantities, to be called the multiplicities,in which the numbers of assembled products of the various types are inthe desired...

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On solving multi-type line planning problems

Jan-Willem, Goossens; van, Hoesel Stan; Leo, Kroon - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2002

An important strategic element in the planning process of a railway operator is the development of a line plan, i.e. a set of routes (paths) on the network of tracks, operated at a given hourly frequency. The models described in the literature have thus far considered only lines that halt at all...

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Antecedents of industrial brand equity: An empirical study

van, Riel Allard C.R.; Charles, Pahud de Mortanges; … - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2004

Industrial branding has emerged as an important issue, allowing firms to gain substantial competitive advantage, especially in markets where product commoditization and electronic procurement are on the increase. This article proposes, and empirically validates, a theoretically structured...

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Social Rationalizability

Jean-Jacques, Herings P.; Ana, Mauleon; Vannetelbosch J. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2002

Social environments constitute a framework in which it is possible to study how groups of agents interact in a society. The framework is general enough to analyse both non-cooperative and cooperative games. We identify a number of shortcomings of existing solution concepts that are used for...

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Good economics, bad economics, and European economics

Backhaus Jürgen G. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 1996

The editors of Kyklos have asked the question: Is there a European economics? This short essay tries to give an answer … by first trying to provide a framework for a sensible answer in economics, and then following suit by illustrating how in … ORDO-approach, the sub-discipline of law and economics and the problem of European institutions as they are different from …

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Multi-Regime Common Cyclical Features

Bertrand, Candelon; Alain, Hecq - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2002

In this paper we consider the hypothesis that particular short-run co-movements indicationg that shocks have similar responses might only exist for a particular regime and not for the whole sample. A two-step procedure is set up to test and estimate the multi-regime common cyclical feature. This...

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A Globally Convergent Algorithm to Compute All Nash Equilibria of n-Person Games

Jean-Jacques, Herings; Ronald, Peeters - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2002

In this paper an algorithm is presented to compute all Nash equilibria for games in normal form on the only premises that the number of Nash equilibria is finite. The algorithm relies on decomposing the game by means of support-sets. For each support-set, the set of totally mixed equilibria of...

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Regular Online Assessment, Motivation and Learning

Bart, Rienties; Geert, Woltjer - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2004

In 2002 regular online assessment was introduced as one of the pillars of an improved course in economics for business … interested in the subject-matter of the course (i.e. economics). It is obvious that the increase in work effort and motivation as …

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