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ESSAYS ON COOPERATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS
Thompson, Theresa Marie - 2005
test an idea from relational contracting theory that informal relationships can substitute for formal enforcement through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450943
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Share, Price and Category Expenditure -- Geographic Market Effects and Private Labels
Putsis, William P.; Cotterill, Ronald W. - 2000
Focusing on the interaction between national brands and private labels, this paper has two main empirical contributions: i) a simultaneous system of demand (share), price and expenditure equations is estimated, and ii) differences in the structure of the local geographic market are incorporated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442577
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Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets
Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Pofahl, … - 2010
Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446101
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Production structure models and applications within a Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) Framework
Turner, Lyle Robert - 2007
Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) is an axiomatic and statistical theory of basic accounting measurement practice … techniques to such an analysis. This thesis, therefore, moves to extend the basic theory that has already been developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437995
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Exploring production-theoretical insights for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level
Van Meensel, Jef; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck, … - 2009
The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444853
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Production under uncertainty and choice under uncertainty in the emergence of generalized expected utility theory
Quiggin, J - 2001
analysis of production under uncertainty. Interest in the foundations of the theory of choice under uncertainty was stimulated … by applications of expected utility theory such as the Sandmo model of production under uncertainty. This interest led to … the development of generalized models including rank-dependent expected utility theory. In turn, the development of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447884
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Empirical Essays on the Elasticity of Substitution, Technical Change, and Economic Growth
Pereira, Claudiney M - 2003
We estimate the elasticity of substitution using two different production functions. The usual Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function and a Box-Cox production function for Japan (1890-1991), UK (1870-1991), and US (1890-1992; 1929-2000). The main results are that we find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431206
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Abhängigkeit in Geschäftsbeziehungen
Iwohn, Andrei - 1997
ökonomischen wie auch nicht-ökonomischen Modelle wird die mikroökonomische Theorie der Insitutionenökonomik, hier insbesondere des … surveying the transaction cost theory.// With alteration of mass production of standardised products into assembly of highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467182
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Portfolio Considerations in Automobile Purchases: An Application to the Japanese Market
Wakamori, Naoki - 2011
This dissertation empirically studies demand complementarities in automobile purchases using newly collected Japanese household-level panel data, Keio Household Panel Survey. It is motivated by the observation that approximately one third of Japanese households own more than one automobile and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438767
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Disentangling Investment Returns and Stock Returns: The Importance of Time-to-Build
Kuehn, Lars-Alexander - 2009
I provide new evidence on the failure of the Q-theory. The Q-theory implies the state-by-state equivalence of stock and … the Q-theory. This paper also proposes a rational explanation for this finding. A general equilibrium model with … interpreted as evidence for irrational markets since it cannot be reconciled with the Q-theory of investment. …
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