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A retrospective stated preference approach to assessment of coastal infrastructure investments : an application to Barbados
Banerjee, Onil; Boyle, Kevin J.; Rogers, Cassandra T.; … - 2016
Ex-post economic impact evaluations are standard requirements for loans and grants from multilateral international development institutions. In many cases, however, lack of sufficient baseline or historical data, or the very nature of the investment itself renders orthodox economic impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545433
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Tax incentives and job creation in the tourism industry of Brazil
Garsous, Grégoire; Novoa, David Corderi; Velasco, Mercedes - 2015
tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …
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Economic and environmental sustainability : a dynamic approach in insular systems
Cavallaro, Fausto; Ciraolo, Luigi - 2002
Environmental resources constitute the 'raw materials' for tourism. This sector represents the driving force behind the …. This work systematically examines the effects and the feedbacks that the economy of tourism may generate in small areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596428
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Industrial Economics in Scandinavia: 1880-1980
Foss, Nicolai J.; Møllgaard, Peter - 2004
Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries....
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Assessing the consequences of natural disasters on production networks : a disaggregated approach
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - 2008
This article proposes a framework to investigate the consequences of natural disasters. This framework is based on the disaggregation of Input-Output tables at the business level, through the representation of the regional economy as a network of production units. This framework accounts for (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799163
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Open versus Closed Source - Eine organisationsökonomische Betrachtung zum Wettbewerb der Betriebssysteme Windows und Linux
Franck, Egon; Jungwirth, Carola - 2001
In spite of Microsoft´s quasi monopoly position in the market for operating systems Linux has succeeded to become a serious competitor of Microsoft Windows. From an economic standpoint this fact raises some puzzles.(...)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005844440
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Connections among farsighted agents
Vannetelbosch, Vincent J.; Grandjean, Gilles; Mauleon, Ana - 2009
We study the stability of social and economic networks when players are farsighted. In particular, we examine whether the networks formed by farsighted players are different from those formed by myopic players. We adopt Herings, Mauleon and Vannetelbosch's (Games and Economic Behavior,...
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Theories of diversity within organisation studies : debates and future trajectories
Janssens, Maddy; Steyaert, Chris - 2003
Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing...
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Simple priorities and core stability in hedonic games
Dimitrov, Dinko; Borm, Peter; Hendrickx, Ruud L. P.; … - 2004
In this paper we study hedonic games where each player views every other player either as a friend or as an enemy. Two simple priority criteria for comparison of coalitions are suggested, and the corresponding preference restrictions based on appreciation of friends and aversion to enemies are...
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Optimal information transmission in organizations : search and congestion
Arenas, Àlex; Cabrales, Antonio; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - 2004
We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective specialized solvers by relying on local information alone. The...
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