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Opt in Versus Opt Out : A Free-Entry Analysis of Privacy Policies

Degryse, Hans - 2006

There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy - anonymity, opt in, and opt out - within a two-period model of...

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Oil Project Selection by Metrics

Emhjellen, Magne - 2016

The recent fall in oil prices has led to extensive capital rationing, and thereby given rise to a renewed focus on parameters for project selection which supplement net present value. While the financial crisis was creating capital constraints, the oil industry seemed to be paying great...

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Determining the Success of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

Thronicker, Dominique - 2015

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is regarded as one of the most important technologies to mitigate climate change while providing fossil-fuel based energy security. During the past decade, projects in support of the development and deployment of the technology have been initiated across the...

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Selection Biases in Complementary R&D Projects

Choi, Jay Pil - 2011

This paper analyzes selection biases in the project choice of complementary technologies that are used in combination to produce a final product. In the presence of complementary technologies, patents allow innovating firms to hold up rivals who succeed in developing other system components....

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Dynamics of Open Source Movements

Athey, Susan - 2010

This paper considers a dynamic model of the evolution of open source software projects, focusing on the evolution of quality, contributing programmers, and users who contribute customer support to other users. Programmers who have used open source software are motivated by reciprocal altruism to...

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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. …

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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2013

down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …

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Sorting into Outsourcing: Are Profits Taxed at a Gorilla's Arm's Length?

Bauer, Christian Josef; Langenmayr, Dominika - CESifo - 2012

into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with …

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