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Hábitos de Pago en Costa Rica
Leon, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This document studies the payments habits of economic agents in Costa Rica. With that purpose a survey has been done, with a representative sample of 929 consumers, the survey covered all provinces, and interviews were conducted in both urban and rural areas. The survey results indicate a...
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Relative efficiency of foreign and domestic Banks
Keshari, Pradeep K; Paul, Thomas M - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
attain higher levels of productivity and profitability. For this purpose, first, a stochastic frontier production function … also compared with respect to the other measures of performance, namely, productivity and profitability. The result shows … labour (or branch) productivity and profitability between domestic and foreign banks revealed that the same are respectively …
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Ronald Coase y los costos de transacción
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper relates to the implications of transaction costs in Ronald Coase. The economics of transaction costs (TCE) is a first-order theoretical framework for understanding both the constraints to the development of the company to warn gaps in current public policy developments with important...
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Costos de Transacciones en Costa Rica
Leon, Jorge; Rodríguez, Adolfo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this study we carry out the first formal estimation of the social cost of transactions in Costa Rica. The estimation considers transactions in cash and cards, covers the 2008- 2011 years and is based on the methodology applied by Bergman, Guibourg and Segendorf (2007) for Sweden, with...
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Mergers and acquisitions transactions strategies in diffusion - type financial systems in highly volatile global capital markets with nonlinearities
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The M&A transactions represent a wide range of unique business optimization opportunities in the corporate transformation deals, which are usually characterized by the high level of total risk. The M&A transactions can be successfully implemented by taking to an account the size of investments,...
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Анализ экономической целесообразности открытия франшизы Subway в Крыму
Tsoy, Nataly - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In article analysis the state of the modern fast-food market in Russian Federation. The author observes main trends in this area, the competitiveness of the different regions of the country. The special attention is given to the proposal of opening Subway franchise in the Crimea
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Global Competitiveness in Pharmaceuticals: A European Perspective
Gambardella, Alfonso; Orsenigo, Luigi; Pammolli, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The report examines the competitive position of the European pharmaceutical companies and industries, and compares them with the pharmaceutical companies and industries in other parts of the world, particularly the US. Over the last two decades, the industry has experienced some important...
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The Future Economic Consequences of Commoditization
Ryan, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Predicting the future is an imprecise science, and something that should always be carried out carefully and the results should be taken with a pinch of salt. That said it is sensible to assume that most of the drivers of commoditization are likely to remain in force for the foreseeable future....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089313
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Predicting the Profit Potential of a Microeconomic Process: An Information Theoretic/Thermodynamic Approach
George, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Abstract It would be of great benefit if management could predict the huge profits that would result from modest investments in process improvement initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma and Complexity reduction. While the application of these initiatives was initially restricted to manufacturing,...
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Where will commoditization take us?
RYAN, JOHN; HOLMES, ANDREW - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Predicting the future is an imprecise science, and something that should always be carried out carefully and the results should be taken with a pinch of salt. That said it is sensible to assume that most of the drivers of commoditization are likely to remain in force for the foreseeable future....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552784