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Investment and Risk-taking in Procurement and Regulation
Hubert, Franz - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / Chair … - 1999
This note analyses investment and risk-taking in a simple agency model of public regulation/procurement borrowed from …
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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter forProductivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
. These allowaccounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance andthe indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral inputoutputlinkages. Our econometric … the globaltechnological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivitygrowth both …
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The effect of business regulations on nascent and actual entrepreneurship
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864969
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On the nature of price competitionunder universal service obligations: a note
Gautier, Axel; Wauthy, Xavier - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2009
The imposition of universal coverage and uniform pricing constraints, as part of the universalservice obligations, makes the universal service provider less aggressive in the price game when itcompetes with a firm that does not cover the whole set of markets (Valletti et al., 2002). In...
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Kontinuierliche Verbesserung von Desktop-Services mittels Benchmarking
Woltering, Ansgar - Stralsund Information Management Team - 2010
Das neue, von Dr.-Ing. Ansgar Woltering, DB Systel GmbH, verfasste Arbeitspapier befasst sich mit der bedarfs- und marktgerechte Ausgestaltung und Bereitstellung von Services in Bezug auf Informations- und Telekommunikationstechnik (ITK). Insbesondere wird auf das Instrument des Benchmarking...
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Compositionand the Measurement of Labor Productivityin the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appearsto be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are duesimply to changes...
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Innovative Organisational and Procurement Strategies in the Management of Highway Networks, an Examination of England’s Road Administration
Winter, Christoph - Bergakademie <Freiberg> / Fachbereich … - 2006
In their quest to become highly efficient and professional asset managers in maintaining their roadnetworks and delivering a programme of network improvements some road administrations haveundergone significant changes in the way they operate in order to become more efficient and provide amore...
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Quasirenten, Prüferwechsel und rationale Adressaten
Stefani, Ulrike - 1999
In der Literatur zur Abschlußprüfung ist ein negativer Effekt eines ökonomischen Vorteils aus der wiederholten Mandatsannahme, der aufgrund von Transaktionskosten entsteht, auf die Unabhängigkeit des Abschlußprüfers diskutiert worden. Anders als die bisher vorgestellten Ansätze wird im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005840363
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Regulatory Risk underOptimal IncentiveRegulation
Strausz, Roland - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2009
The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk underoptimal incentive regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939792
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Multinationals, tax competition and outside options.
Olsen, Trond E.; Osmundsen, Petter - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business … - 2009
Lower barriers to entry and developments in world capital markets have increasedthe actual and potential mobility of multinational enterprises. This poses challengesfor host countries' tax policies. The paper examines implications for such policies, formultinantionals' investment decisions and...
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