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Non-additivity in accounting valuation: Internally generated goodwill as an aggregation of interacting assets
Casta, Jean-François; Paugam, Luc; Stolowy, Hervé - HAL - 2011
In this paper we propose a new method to explain the creation and measure the value of internally generated goodwill (IGG). Our method is based on the idea that firm value is affected by interactions between assets used in combination to conduct business. This novel approach contrasts with the...
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Assessing and ordering investments in polluting fossil-fueled and zero-carbon capital
Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2013
Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739038
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The geography of innovation : challenge to technology policy within regions
Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009
The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …
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Evaluation of Nonlinear time-series models for real-time business cycle analysis of the Euro area
Billio, Monica; Ferrara, Laurent; Guegan, Dominique; … - HAL - 2009
In this paper, we aim at assessing Markov-switching and threshold models in their ability to identify turning points of economic cycles. By using vintage data that are updated on a monthly basis, we compare their ability to detect ex-post the occurrence of turning points of the classical...
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Economic analysis of the European cement industry
Boyer, Marcel; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2013
We present a methodology to assess the profitability of a capital intensive industry over a business cycle and to make projections of profitability for different investment strategies under various hypothetical scenarios for environmental and competition policies. The methodology is applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821134
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Trend shocks and business cycles in Sub Saharan Africa
Naoussi, Claude Francis; Tripier, Fabien - HAL - 2010
This article explores the role of trend shocks in explaining the specificities of business cycles in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using the methodology introduced by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007) [Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend Journal of Political Economy 115(1)]....
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Welfare Cost of Fluctuations: when Labor Market Search Interacts with Financial Frictions
Iliopulos, Eleni; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - HAL - 2014
We provide a quantitative assessment of welfare costs of fluctuations in a search model with financial frictions. The matching process in the labor market leads positive shocks to reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. We show that the magnitude of this non-linearity is...
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A Revision of the US Business- Cycles Chronology 1790–1928
Charles, Amélie; Darné, Olivier; Diebolt, Claude - HAL - 2011
This article extends earlier efforts at redating the US business cycles for the 1790–1928 period using the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) constructed by Johnson and Williamson (2007). We compare the alternative chronology with those of the NBER and Davis (2006) as well as Romer (1994) for...
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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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