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Modelling in Distributed Telecommunications Networks
Tomasgard, Asgeir; Dye, Shane; Wallace, Stein W.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
The purpose of this paper is to formally describe new optimization models for distributed telecommunication networks.Modern distributed networks put more focus on the processing of information and less on the actual transportation of datathan we are traditionally used to in telecommunications....
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Do Services differ from Manufacturing? The Post-Entry Performance of Firms in Dutch Services
Audretsch, D.B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
services as they are for manufacturing. We use a longitudinal data base forDutch firms in the retail and hotel and catering … sectors to identify around 13,000 new-firm start-ups and47,000 incumbents in the services and track them over subsequent years …. We are then able test to seewhether the Stylized Results identified based on manufacturing still hold in the services …
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The Magnitude and Distance Decay of Trade in Goods and Services: New Evidence for European Countries
Burger, Martijn J.; Thissen, Mark; Oort, Frank G. van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Using a newly assembled, consistent and disaggregated dataset (12 goods and 7 services) on internal and bilateral trade … for 25 European countries, we analyse the difference between trade in goods and services. The measurement of both trade in … goods and trade in services is improved over earlier research, allowing us to compare trade in goods and services in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256784
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The Rat Race between World Cities: In Search of Exceptional Places by Means of Super-Efficient Data Development Analysis
Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Suzuki, Soushi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
See the article in <I>Computers Environment and Urban Systems</I> (2013). Volume 38, pages 67-77.<P> This paper aims to provide a new methodological and empirical contribution to the rising literature on the relative performance and benchmarking of large cities in a competitive world. On the basis of a...</p></i>
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The Effect of Noise in a Performance Measure on Work Motivation
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...
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The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
the decision to deviatefrom the default alphabetic name order to a significant extent.<P>This discussion paper has been …
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...
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Explaining Hedge Fund Investment Styles by Loss Aversion
Siegmann, Arjen; Lucas, André - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Recent research reveals that hedge fund returns exhibit a range of different,possibly non-linear pay-off patterns. It is difficult to qualify all these patternssimultaneously as being rational in a traditional framework for optimal financial decisionmaking. In this paper we present a simple...
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Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income Based Measures like Economic Value Added
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Journal of Economics and Management Strategy', forthcoming.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical...</p>
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