The advanced in-house personnel training has been the dominated formof the human resources development in Japanese firms. The strategic strength ofthe advanced personnel training depends on the consistency with the skill requirements,which an actual production management demands. On the other...

We analyze the economic effects of a developer’s connectedness in the electronic gameindustry. Knowledge spillovers between developers should be of special relevance in this knowledgebasedindustry. We calculate measures for a developer’s connectedness to other developers atmultiple points in...

This paper presents an industry equilibrium model of vertical integration under contractualimperfections with speci…c input suppliers and external investors. I assume that vertical inte-gration economizes on the needs for contracts with speci…c input suppliers at the cost of higher…xed costs....

Market share objectives are prominent in many industries, especially where man-agers pay much attention to league table rankings. This paper explores the strategicrationale for giving managers incentives based on market share in an oligopoly com-peting in strategic substitutes. Moreover, the...

I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men’s andwomen’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the ItalianLabor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas(66 per cent of the...

[...]In this paper, I analyze the performance of theregion’s industries over the recent economic decline andrecovery. In the next section, I present the taxonomy ofindustries employed here. That taxonomy, adopted frominternational trade theory, displaces economic base theory,which sorts...

[...]This paper analyzes the industrial restructuringprocess in the New York metropolitan area in the first halfof the 1990s.1 It shows that the restructuring was accompaniedby a decline in the labor force, particularly in NewYork, where the decline persisted through the first half ofthe 1990s....

Die Bundesregierung hat sich endlich geeinigt: Die Kürzung der Solarförderung wird am1.Juli 2010 - und damit deutlich später als ursprünglich geplant - in Kraft treten. Dabei sinktdie Förderung für Dachanlagen um 16 Prozent, bei Freiflächen wird dagegen um 15 Prozentgekürzt. Die Regelung...

This study provides a unied growth theory to correctly predictthe initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortalityand net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the courseof their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...

The aim of this paper is to introduce Virtual Equivalence, a method to merge real circuits and virtual circuits. Also it is a new method to implement the Hyper-Bond (Bruns, 2001) for voltage and current flow. The electric power (current × voltage) interactions, at which the real electric...