also involves imitation, where empathy is irrelevant. While the former may attenuate the principal’s emotion, the latter …

In this paper we analyze a tax evasion game with taxpayer learning by imitation. If the authority commits to a fixed …

imitation. …

countries via skills acquisition, competition, exports and imitation. These spillovers channels are used to transfer … technological knowledge among firms, while the imitation is used by many multinational enterprises (MNEs) and it is considered one …

search for and outsource to specialists, the production costs decrease, but an imitation risk arises by specialists, who may … show that in outsourcing, all firms outsource to the same specialist to minimise the possibility of successful imitation in … even though the selected specialist put effort into imitation. …

betreffend die Messung und Imitation bzw. Diffusion des technischen Fortschritts in der Schweiz zu liefern. Die dabei erzielten …. - Imitation spielt in der technologischen und industriellen Praxis eine zentrale Rolle und ist gerade für kleine … imitationsfähiger Unternehmen, Imitationszeit und Imitationskosten zeigen, dass die Bedingungen für Imitation bzw. Diffusion, zumindest …

facilitates normative analysis of imitation in location choice by explicitly quantifying losses in aggregate efficiency following …

. - The median estimated ratio of imitation cost to innovation cost is about 80% for major patented, 50% for major unpatented … about ten months. Since there is a significant correlation between cost and time of imitation, the conclusions are the same …