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technology may influence its financing and, conversely, how the availability of funds influences technological advances. These … methods of funding innovation--whether it is in the auto industry or information technology--have important implications for …
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technology may influence its financing and, conversely, how the availability of funds influences technological advances. These … methods of funding innovation--whether it is in the auto industry or information technology--have important implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991843
use indirect financing structures--organizing themselves into groups with several tiers of ownership--to reduce worldwide … taxes. They spell out in detail how different tax policies affect corporations' choice of financing structures, discussing … by the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, Mintz and Weichenrieder confirm the prevalence of indirect financing structures …
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The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer workers making pension contributions than there are...
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The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education … -- and for formulating effective policies to improve the financing and provision of education. The relatively simple models … a comparison of education financing under different regimes, the authors explore fiscal decentralization; individual …
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Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology …. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection … of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social …
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For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and Change, Clair Brown and...
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In this book Youngil Lim explores the process by which the poverty-stricken agrarian economy of South Korea was transformed over the past three decades into a semi-industrial urban economy. The chief questions Lim addresses are: Where did South Korea's technological knowledge come from? What did...
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rates; the stochastic dimension of the American economy; the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations; and …
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. The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research …
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