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Abstract. A recent study shows that industry-specific analysis has no incremental advantage over economy-wide analysis in forecasting firm profitability. This result seems puzzling because some earlier studies have documented the importance of industry effects in explaining firm profitability....
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Democracy resolves conflicts in difficult games like Prisoners’ Dilemma and Chicken by stabilizing their cooperative outcomes. It does so by transforming these games into games in which voters are presented with a choice between a cooperative outcome and a Pareto-inferior noncooperative...
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weights as an imaginary voter submitting preferences over alternatives in the form of an ordered list. With this voting …
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executive (President) are riddled with voting paradoxes. Superior to a single vote are some methods with preference orderings …
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European cultural identity reflects both the image of homogeneity and that of cultural diversity. This double … deny the existence of a European cultural area, whether a diversity cultural area, or one of “disrupted continuity …”. Cultural diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism are elements specific to the European area. The European integration process …
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-2013. CONTENTS Mircea BRIE, István POLGÁR, Florentina CHIRODEA, Cultural Identity, Diversity and European Integration. Introductory … CIUCANU, Making Diversity Work in European Higher Education the Interplay Between Performance and Diversification ; Mirela …
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cultural area cannot be denied, although one may speak of diversity or of “disrupted continuity”. The paper is a survey on the … identity area. The specific of the European culture is provided precisely by diversity and multiculturalism as means of …
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relevant to the location decisions of creative professionals, diversity is analyzed in particular, as it might stimulate growth … because of its potential to increase the rate of interchange of different ideas and knowledge. Diversity is therefore a … “knowledge production factor." The analysis of both - creative professions and diversity - is related to two current topics in …
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promote diversity by making more room for domestic content and hence foster a more diverse production. However, this intuitive …) types of programming, whereby reducing program diversity. This mechanism applies both in a monopoly and an imperfectly …
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In this paper we examine the innovative performance of Greek firms in terms of the women participation in research and technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and science, based on 279 questionnaires...
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