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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 …

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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 Computers Environment and Urban Systems (2013). Volume 38, pages 67-77. 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...

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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. Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical...

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The Effects of Performance Measurement and Compensation on Motivation

Herpen, Marco van; Praag, C. Mirjam van; Cools, Kees - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between pay and performance. Economic and psychological theories predict that the design and implementation of a performance measurement and compensation system affect the motivation of employees. Our survey results demonstrate a positive...

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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study

Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...

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First Author Determinants: An Empirical Analysis

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

matters and indeed take ordering seriously:Several characteristics of an author group composition determine the decision to …

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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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