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Logistics in early-modern Europe: A discussion of specialization, flexibility and efficiency in the activities of the Dutch shipping community in the eighteenth century
Scheltjens, Werner - HAL - 2008
present a preliminary taxonomy of shipping patterns on the basis of a continuous trade-off between cargo, port of destination … and origin of the shipmaster. This taxonomy distinguishes between repetitiveness and flexibility in the shipmaster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738810
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Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies
Atran, Scott; Medin, Douglas; Ross, Norbert - HAL - 2002
Anthropological inquiry indicates that all human cultures classify animals and plants in similar ways. This pre-theoretical knowledge also provided common ground for competing scientific investigations. Paradoxically, despite rapid advances in biological science, our citizenry's practical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791085
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Lobbying by firms to influence public decision : is it a legal or an illegal networking ?The cases of France and the United kingdom
Rival, Madina - HAL - 2005
Lobbying by businesses is a practice that has become increasingly widespread today, but hardly studied in Europe. This paper endeavours to determine whether corporate political operations differ significantly from one country to the other. To address this question in Europe, lobbying by French...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792019
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TAXONOMY DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS: DEVELOPING A TAXONOMY OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Nickerson, Robert; Muntermann, Jan; Varshney, Upkar; … - HAL - 2009
provide ways to understand the similarities and differences among objects under study. Developing a taxonomy, however, is a … develop a systematic method for taxonomy development in information systems. The method we propose uses an indicator or … by using it to develop a taxonomy of mobile applications, which we have chosen because of their ever-increasing number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794249
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European economic perspectives of Serbia and the integration process.
Bazin, Damien; Redžepagić, Srdjan - HAL - 2013
This work represent a very brief and complex (on the same time) presentation of the actual situation in some Balkan countries - especially Serbia, on their way to the European Union (EU). The aim is to present clearly the "European conditions" necessary to be fulfilled by candidate and potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936651
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Do food scares explain supplier concentration? An analysis of EU agri-food imports
Jaud, Mélise; Cadot, Olivier; Suwa-Eisenmann, Akiko - HAL - 2009
This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that the decrease in overall concentration indices results from two diverging trends: the pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929094
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Is this all "Greek" in Europe ? Critical evaluation of the Euro zone policy response to debt crises
Ghani, Shazia - HAL - 2011
Eurozone is going though the worst ever crises since the adoption of the common currency in 1999. In the aftermath of financial crises of 2007, many EU government due to their own fragile banking system and imbalance economic structures persued a debt-spending financing which resulted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368002
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Are Small countries leaders of the European tax competition ?
Chatelais, Nicolas; Peyrat, Mathilde - HAL - 2008
The aim of this paper is to develop a better understanding of the literature dealing with strategic fiscal behaviours of small EU countries using estimations of tax reaction functions of competing national governments. Deriving a simple model of tax competition in a Nash and Stackelberg game, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738577
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Ambition and jealousy. Income interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States
Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2007
Using individual-level data from a large number of countries, this paper examines how self-reported subjective well-being depends on own income and reference income, where reference income is defined as the income of professional peers. It uncovers a divide between "old" -low mobility- European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738753
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Macroeconomic asymmetry and imbalances in the euro zone
Sifakis-Kapetanakis, Catherine - HAL - 2011
The recent sovereign debt crisis in Europe, now a Eurozone crisis, has prompted a growing awareness of the disparities in the economic conditions and competitive positions of Eurozone countries. Such disparities are reflected in the accumulation of imbalances to the disadvantage of countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711789