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The Deliberative Frugal Mindset: A model of managerial opportunity recognition for frugal innovation
Krohn, Malte; Petersen, Finn; Hochmuth, Dustin; … - 2020
The importance of growing economic powerhouses like India and China is increasing. Consequently, cost effective products and services and therefore, Frugal Innovations provide attractive business opportunities for globally operating companies. However, not all organizations seem to recognize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162751
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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870559
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Firm Migration and Stock Returns
Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009
This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022140
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Migration Correlation: Definition and Efficient Estimation
Gagliardini, Patrick; Gourieroux, Christian - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2004
The aim of this paper is to explain why cross-sectional estimated migration correlations displayed in the academic and … a model with stochastic migration in which the parameters of interest, that are migration correlations, are precisely … defined. The impossibility of estimating consistently the migration correlations from cross-sectional data only is emphasized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858516
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Gender dimensions of inequality in the countries of Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Western CIS
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2016
various dimensions of gender inequalities and their past dynamics in the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784648
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Family farming in Europe and Central Asia: History, characteristics, threats and potentials
van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe - 2016
Most people have a clear understanding of what the term 'family farm' means. This is especially true in Europe. The term refers, in a seemingly straightforward and unambiguous way, to well-known and self-evident realities. It is solidly internalised in the memory of most people, even those with...
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The impact of geography an natural resource abundance on growth in Central Asia
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
This paper examines the growth experience of the Central Asian economies after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In particular, it evaluates the impact of being landlocked and resource rich. The main conclusions are: (1) Over the period 1994-2006, the landlocked resourcescarce developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281703
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The role of trade facilitation in Central Asia: A gravity model
Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
With a decrease in formal trade barriers, trade facilitation has come into prominence as a policy tool for promoting trade. In this paper, we use a gravity model to examine the relationship between bilateral trade flows and trade facilitation. We also estimate the gains in trade derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286534
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Central Asia Oil and Gas Industry - The External Powers’ Energy Interests in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Raimondi, Pier Paolo - 2019
and abundance of hydrocarbon reserves. These hydrocarbon reserves are located mainly in three countries: Kazakhstan … of Beijing. The Western countries has gained influence particularly in Kazakhstan, but they have no political leverage in … industry of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The working paper is structured into four different sections. In the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146424
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Sometimes, winners lose: Economic disparity and indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - 2014
formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396832