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In this paper we contend that – contrary to what argued by a vast part of the literature – computer software and, more in general, digital goods (i.e. symbolic strings on an electronic medium with some eco- nomic value) do not present the characteristics of a public good as they do not...
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Nowadays, the world’s scientific community has been publishing an enormous number of papers in different scientific fields. In such environment, it is essential to know which databases are equally efficient and objective for literature searches. It seems that two most extensive databases are...
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TradeProd, the CEPII trade, production and bilateral protection database, provides an updated version of the worldwide … data used in Mayer and Zignago (2005), and available on CEPII's website. The database contains three groups of information … available. The second is an extension of industrial production figures from the Trade, Production and Protection database by …
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Measuring the contribution of services to the Indian economy is a challenging task because it presents problems not encountered in the primary and secondary sectors. The authors discuss problems found particularly in quantifying the contribution of the banking and software sectors and suggest...
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In this new version of the database we have included pilot social assistance programmes. A number of pilot cash … several of the pilots covered in the database, and many of those in the pipeline, represent instead a specific route to the … database, do not fit fully into this description. We have accumulated a large body of evidence and knowledge about the design …
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needs can be realised using a DBMS (Database Management System) which is, in fact, software for a database. Technically …Almost every organization has at its centre a database. The database provides support for conducting different … activities, whether it is production, sales and marketing or internal operations. Every day, a database is accessed for help in …
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This paper flags the basis weaknesses of the 1993-94 series of index of industrial production (IIP) data and calls for both base year revisions as also an overhaul of its contents so that it correctly captures the structural changes that have occurred in the economy. While highlighting some of...
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The paper presents the structure and the concepts at the basis of a database on world transport infrastructure … regulation, to be launched. The database will be built promoting a “soft” survey on the world regulatory practices, to be filled … by scholars and experts on a voluntary basis. The goal of the database is to stimulate research on best practices and …
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Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the...
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After deriving a model describing the law of evolution of innovators and imitators the article focuses on their relationships under two different scenarios: prey-predator, in which innovators are regarded as preys, and competing species. Analytic results show that among the feasible equilibria...
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