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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999

Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009

This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the performance of the United States and Japan, two of the...

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Investments in energy technological change under uncertainty

Shittu, Ekundayo - 2009

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...

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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning

Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009

As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...

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Essays in international finance and search theory.

Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992

This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...

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Role Model Performance Effects on Development of Entrepreneurial Career Preference

Scherer, Robert F.; Adams, Janet S.; Carley, Susan; … - 1989

Critics of the trait approach to the study of entrepreneurship have called for adaptation of theory from other … entrepreneurial career preference is developed. Social Learning Theory was used to investigate the link between a parent role model …

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Transition economies and European integration: Role of the state and the banking sector

Wasiak, Radoslaw - 2002

Transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe have already completed the initial stabilization reforms and initiated the process of accession to European political and economic structures. Nonetheless, consensus exists that transition reforms are not complete. The state continues to exhibit...

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Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level

Song, Xiaojiang

Through the remarkable growth of over a decade China's rural industry has already become an important pillar of its national economy. The primary goal of this dissertation is to place China's rural industry in a historical and a market economic perspective in an efforts to link its rapid...

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SRAFFA AND THE CIRCUIT OF PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL

MCLEOD, WILLIAM DENNETT

In this dissertation I establish the common Physiocratic heritage shared by Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa. For Marx, this heritage finds expression in his second volume of Capital, Chapter Two, "The Circuit of Productive Capital", and for Sraffa, in his work, Production of Commodities by Means of...

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THEORIES OF ECONOMIC VALUE: VALUE THEORY IN ECONOMICS AND ITS FOUNDATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY

KERR, IAN ALEXANDER

The last three decades have witnessed a revival of interest in value theory in economics, accompanied by mounting … challenges to the neoclassical orthodoxy. Not only has neoclassical price theory come under attack, especially from the neo …-Ricardian critique of contemporary capital and distribution theory, but there has also been dissatisfaction with the performance of …

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TWO ESSAYS ON SOVEREIGN DEBT

PATTAPHONGS, DANAI

This dissertation is composed of two papers. In the first paper, we draw a distinction between the "optimal debt" and the "debt capacity" of a sovereign nation. It is shown that for a sovereign nation, its debt capacity is at most equal to its optimal debt. The existence and the type of...

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