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Testing Optimal Punishment Mechanisms under Price Regulation: the Case of the Retail Market for Gasoline
Gagné, Robert; Norden, Simon Van; Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2006
We analyse the effects of a price floor on price wars (or deep price cuts) in the retail market for gasoline. Bertrand supergame oligopoly models predict that price wars should last longer in the presence of price floors. In 1996, the introduction of a price floor in the Quebec retail market for...
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Inefficiencies in the sale of ideas: theory and empirics
Allain, Marie-Laure; Henry, Emeric; Kyle, Margaret - HAL - 2011
The sale of ideas (e.g. through licensing) facilitates vertical specialization and the division of labor between research and development. This specialization can improve the overall efficiency of the innovative process. However, these gains depend on the timing of the sale: the buyer of an idea...
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Human capital accumulation over the life cycle under multiple sources of uncertainty
Hanchane, Saïd; Touahri, David - HAL - 2004
In this paper, we analyse the human capital accumulation process over the life cycle of individuals under the hypothesis of earnings uncertainty. To do so, we develop a continuous time dynamic programming model which takes into account several sources of uncertainty, concerning the human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618141
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Human Capital over the Life Cycle
Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006
Human Capital over the Life Cycle: A European Perspective identifies the problem of human capital creation as one of the fundamental issues in the development of knowledge-based economies.
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Human capital as a risky asset and the effect of uncertainty on the decision to invest
Hanchane, Saïd; Lioui, A.; Touahri, David - HAL - 2006
In this paper, we analyse the human capital accumulation process over the life cycle of individuals under uncertainty. To do so, we develop a continuous time dynamic programming model which takes into account several sources of uncertainty, concerning the human capital accumulation process and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899522
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Management Tools for RetD Project Portfolios in Complex Organizations – the case of an international pharmaceutical firm
Bayart, Denis; Bonhomme, Yves; Midler, Christophe - HAL - 2000
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a growing issue in both professional and academic circles. The typology of Cooper et al. (1998) has pictured the variety of PPM formalized approaches into four types (financial, strategic, scoring and “bubble diagram”). While the use of formalized...
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External referencing and pharmaceutical price negotiation
Mariñoso, Begoña Garcia; Jelovac, Izabela; Olivella, Pau - HAL - 2011
External referencing (ER) imposes a price cap for pharmaceuticals based on prices of identical products in foreign …
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The persistence of firms' knowledge base: a quantile approach to Italian data
Colombelli, Alessandra; Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2014
The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …
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Contre les territoires jetables. Première approche critique des systèmes d'identification des territoires.
Gwiazdzinski, Luc - HAL - 2013
"Vertige" est le mot qui vient immédiatement à l'esprit quand nous contemplons le tourbillon des logos et marques territoriales qui s'étalent désormais sous nos yeux. " Inquiétude " c'est le sentiment que l'on peut ressentir à la vue des bricolages visuels et des simplifications qui...
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How to improve Kline and Rosenberg's chain-linked model of innovation: building blocks and diagram-based languages
Micaëlli, Jean-Pierre; Forest, Joelle; Coatanéa, Eric; … - HAL - 2014
The "hierarchical and linear model of innovation" (HLMI) is often used to describe how innovations are produced. HLMI … conceiving innovation systems as associations of building blocks and using contemporary engineering diagram-based languages to … display them. Nevertheless, this improvement does not challenge the dynamic features of innovation systems …
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