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Bankruptcy : is it enough to forgive or must we also forget?
Elul, Ronel (contributor); Gottardi, Piero (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712514
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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers : dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations
Li, Yao - 2009
of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833339
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854416
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Investing in biogas: timing, technological choice and the value of flexibility from inputs mix
Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele - 2009
In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872196
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Pay as you go : a new proposal for museum pricing
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
, which are charged according to the time spent in a museum. This scheme has a number of notable advantages, in particular the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997593
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Social norms, cognitive dissonance and the timing of marriage
Balestrino, Alessandro (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597973
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A simple model of service offshoring with time zone differences
Kikuchi, Tōru; Long, Ngo Van - 2010
conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i … dramatic change in industrial structure due to entrepreneurial relocation (i.e., service offshoring) to take advantage of time … resulting increase in service offshoring may reduce a country's welfare. -- service offshoring ; time zone differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945833
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Spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK
Holly, Sean; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2010
effect of shocks using generalised spatio-temporal impulse responses. These highlight the diffusion of shocks both over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925268
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Optimal Investment and Financial Strategies under Tax Rate Uncertainty
Fedele, Alessandro; Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2010
In this paper we apply a real-option model to study the effects of tax rate uncertainty on a firm's decisions. In doing so, we depart from the relevant literature, which focuses on fully equity-financed investment project. By letting a representative firm borrow optimally, we show that debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965108
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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation
Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011
Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school … learning being a cumulative process by relying on rather poor proxies for instructional time. Highschool ninth graders from the …-instructional time measured in cumulated form from first up to ninth grade. Besides total instructional time exposure, we identify eight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301092