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&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=2787342"><I>Land Economics</I></A>, 1999, 75(4), 547-561. …
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This paper discusses the value that data from mobile phone providers can bring into urban analysis. The novel argument is that the pervasiveness of mobile phone telephony has transformed mobile phones from a communications device to a tool for socio-spatial research. Put simply, mobile phone...
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Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economistsfor more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship intwo distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economicsand b) as it develops in the transitional context. In...
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Economics, in particular, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). The paper … analyses 299 leading international journals in Economics using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs), and highlights …
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This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wageincome going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...
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use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty … originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I argue that workers who take over part of the quantity uncertainty … from the employer get higher payments. Quality uncertainty on the other hand originates from the fact that employers are ex …
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This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate … investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch … general investment spending. Furthermore, expectationsand uncertainty have important although different effects on investment …
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economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results … data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on … indicate that the effect of uncertainty is moderated by two factors: an individual's perceived adequacy of current savings and …
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of uncertainty on travel times and the implications this has forestimations of travel time values has received much less … attention in the literature. In thispaper we compare various modelling approaches to address uncertainty and demonstrate … thatignoring uncertainty issues may easily lead to distorted estimates of values of travel time. Thisis of special relevance in …
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