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The significance of yardstick competition among governments is now confirmed with regard to fiscal variables. This is an important result but the significance of the mechanism must also be sought in a context broader than that of fiscal federalism and without limitation to relations and...
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-depth in management studies. The paper briefly details LRV in the cybernetics context before “translating” it to social systems …
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Variability, in general, has a deteriorating effect on the performance of stochastic inventory systems. In particular …
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We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...
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outside his coalition. To predict the coalitional networks that are going to emerge at equilibrium we propose the concept of …
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Consumers and organisations are increasingly considering longer term sustainability issues when they purchase or supply goods or services: "green buying" appears to be gaining momentum. However, progress is slow and the percentage of green purchases has remained static at 2% for the last two...
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points out that social networks are the most important way of finding a job. It focuses on a comparison between an informal …, sex), while social networks exclude people with poor connections in the labour market but might favour applicants without …
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airlines and railroads considered as networks industries. In this light, we then analyse their possible strategies in a context …
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outside his coalition. To predict the coalitional networks that are going to emerge at equilibrium we propose the concept of …
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communication network. We provide an explicit link between players' preferences and the equilibrium strategic communication networks … they communicate. Apart from some specific cases, the equilibrium communication networks are quite complex despite our … simple one-dimensional description of preference heterogeneity. In general, strategic communication networks cannot be …
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