social networks. We find significant diffusion of business practices only in terms of VAT registration and having a bank … current account. This diffusion is a combination of diffusion of innovation and simple imitation. At the time of our …

We study empirically technology diffusion across countries and over time. We find significant evidence that technology … geography plays in determining technology diffusion across countries …

This paper is an attempt to explain diffusion in the production of an innovation. Diffusion in production is defined as … more familiar problem in the literature on technical change, namely, the diffusion among producers in the use of new … simple model -- simple in terms of number of variables -- is sufficient to explain most of diffusion in the production of an …

marketing strategy of the drug reference firm …

unemployment rate Phillips curve, which is examined in a simulated out of sample forecasting framework. Inflation forecasts …

Forecasts of professional forecasters are anomalous: they are biased, forecast errors are autocorrelated, and forecast … revisions predict forecast errors. Sticky or noisy information models seem like unlikely explanations for these anomalies …

exists in the Canadian data, but is of only modest value in a forecasting context. The excess return on long-term bonds …

generated: 1) from time series of past inflation rates;2) by forecasting real rates from time series of past real rates and …