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University-industry partnerships (UIPs) are widely viewed as essential in leveraging research capability and economic performance in organizations and the nation as a whole. In Australia, as in many other countries, the national government commits significant funds to such ‘strategic’...
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The Stern/Nordhaus controversy has polarized the widely disparate beliefs about what to do in order to tackle the climate challenge. Between Nordhaus' ``policy ramp'' which recommends gradual action to avoid costly premature low-carbon investments and Stern's ``early strong emissions cut'', the...
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Money illusion is "frequently invoked and frequently resisted" by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes...
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In this paper we try to establish the link between book production and the spread of “ideas” as proxied by patents. Two mechanisms may be distinguished. First, in the initial phase of economic development, the production of books may stimulate the accumulation of knowledge already present in...
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World food production reached a record high in 1986, exceeding 1985's record by about 1 percent, despite declining food … output in Latin America, the United States, Western Europe, and Oceania. World food production generally increased faster … production for 1977-86 for 111 countries, 12 regions, and the world. The indices are calculated using a Laspeyres base …
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World food production reached a record high in 1986, exceeding 1985's record by about 1 percent, despite declining food … output in Latin America, the United States, Western Europe, and Oceania. World food production generally increased faster … production for 1977-86 for 111 countries, 12 regions, and the world. The indices are calculated using a Laspeyres base …
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Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to …
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fact, exposures to industry factors are surprisingly low—about 0.30 instead of over 0.90 for world and country factors. …
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In the debate whether country factors are typically more variable than sector factors, sparked off by e.g. Roll (1991) and Heston and Rouwenhorst (1994), one of the few uncontested facts is that the addition of emerging markets (EMs) does boost the ratio of country-factor variance relative to...
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in the world. Even while the country is investing its resources to create “India-the Global Brandâ€, what is its …
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