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Investment Timing and Vertical Relationships
Billette de Villemeur, Etienne; Ruble, Richard; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We show that the standard analysis of vertical relationships transposes directly to investment dynamics. Thus, when a firm undertaking a project requires an outside supplier (e.g., an equipment manufacturer) to provide it with a discrete input to serve a growing but uncertain demand, and if the...
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Exploration for human capital: Theory and evidence from the MBA labor market
Kuhnen, Camelia M.; Oyer, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Drawing on insights from corporate finance and personnel economics, we show that firms consider potential employees using a real options approach, much as they do when making other types of capital investment decisions. Theoretically we find that firms’ hiring decisions are influenced by the...
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Risk-based cash demand in a firm
Michalski, Grzegorz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
negative part of the risk and hold cash to hedge against it. Second, cash balances are held to use chances that are created by … the positive part of the risk equation. Next, cash balances are the result of the operating needs of the firm. In this … article, we analyze the relation between these types of cash balances and risk. This article also contains propositions for …
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FINANCING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN ERITREA – SOME IMPLICATIONS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836463
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Human Capital, Higher Education Institutions, and Quality of Life
Winters, John V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper considers the effects of the local human capital level and the presence of higher education institutions on the quality of life in U.S. metropolitan areas. The local human capital level is measured by the share of adults with a college degree, and the relative importance of higher...
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Human capital development, knowledge spillovers and local growth: Is there a quality effect of university efficiency?
Zotti, Roberto; Barra, Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we test whether economic growth depends on human capital development using data disaggregated at territorial level and propose the use of efficiency estimates, measured using a non-parametric technique, as an alternative quality measure of higher education institutions (HEIs). The...
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The Role of Education for the Economic Growth of Bulgaria
Neycheva, Mariya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper presents results of a study which estimates the impact of human capital on growth in Bulgaria over the period 2000-12. The empirical models are based on the extended Cobb-Douglas production with three inputs ─ labor, physical capital and human capital. Export and Foreign Direct...
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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA – A CASE OF ERITREA
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Education has long been recognized as a central element in development. The human capital formation is receiving increased attention from policy makers and scholars in different parts of the world particularly in developing countries. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789784
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Особенности инвестирования в человеческий капитал
Belenkov, Alexey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Article about the features of investment in human capital. Explore different areas of investment in human capital, and also addresses the problems associated with investing in human capital and ways to solve them. The author proves the thesis futile investment in human capital and labor without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113729
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The use of economic tools to develop a consensus on alcohol policies within and between jurisdictions
Rinaldi, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Alcohol policies encounter major problems because of the lack of consensus within and between jurisdictions. Tools that economists have developed in other contexts may be of use in addressing these problems. The consensus between neighboring jurisdictions can be facilitated when a jurisdiction...
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