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Bitcoin : Future Transaction Currency?
Hosain, Sajjad - 2018
Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that has attracted substantial interest in recent years from the general people, profit seekers, risk takers, academic practitioners and last but not the least, from economists. Most recently, particularly, after 2015, it has succeeded to gain even more...
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Factors Behind International Relocation and Changes in Production Geography in the European Automobile Components Industry
Lampón, Jesús; Lago-Peñas, Santiago - 2013
This article analyses business strategies in the automobile sector to determine the key factors behind production relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector not only in terms of location advantages but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159354
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Eurasian Integration and Its Institutions : Possible Contributions to Security in Eurasia
Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - 2017
The authors turn to the large family of institutions that came into existence in post-Soviet Eurasia (and, in some ways, beyond it) over the last two decades. The researchers review their current state, agenda, real and perceived mandate, and their respective achievements and constraints. The...
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The dynamics of urban traffic congestion and the price of parking�
Fosgerau, Mogens; de Palma, André - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
not be politically feasible. We study the benefit of a substitute: a parking fee at the workplace. An optimal time …-varying parking fee is charged at zero rate when there is queuing and eliminates queuing when the rate is non-zero. Within certain … limits, inability to charge some drivers for parking does not reduce the potential welfare gain. Drivers who cannot be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259396
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Individuals’ behaviour with respect to parking alternatives: a laboratory experiment
Bergantino, Angela Stefania; De Carlo, Angela; Morone, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The aim of this paper is to analyse the trade-off between parking space availability and cost, in terms of time saving …. This information is pivotal when designing parking policies in terms of fares, investments and regulation. A relevant body … of literature has focused on parking behaviour (e.g. travellers’ choice of parking type and location). However, little …
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Voting on traffic congestion policy with two levels of government
Russo, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
lower (higher) charge emerges. Next, I consider the case of two government levels involved in traffic policy: parking … charges in (resp. cordon tolls around) a city's CBD and capacity investments are chosen by a local (resp. regional) government … lead to higher overall charges than in the case of a single government, strong preferences for driving across the …
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Cost of inpatient rehabilitation care in the Department of Veterans Affairs
Wagner, Todd H.; Richardson, Samuel S.; Vogel, Bruce; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract—We investigated the determinants of inpatient rehabilitation costs in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and examined the relationship between length of stay (LOS) and discharge costs using data from VA and community rehabilitation hospitals. We estimated regression models to...
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Déterminants du développement du porte-monnaie électronique: Analyse Théorique et empirique: l’exemple Moneo
Brack, Estelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This work exposes the nature of electronic money and analyses the development potential of the French experience Moneo. Our study shows the unsufficient capacity of the model itself to reach 500 million transactions, seen as a mature market.
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The reflections of new economy on monetary policy and central banking
Haydar, Akyazi; Seyfettin, Artan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Developments in the information and communication technologies have been causing significant changes on the working mechanisms of the economy both at the national and international areas. Some of the developments can be indicated as follows: the dramatic increasing of capital movements amongst...
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Cashless banking in Nigeria and its implications
Olajide, Victor C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Electronic money has ushered in the cashless banking framework across different countries of the world and this is made possible by the advances in information technology and invention that began in Japan and later the West. However this new introduction into the various economies of the world...
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