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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
Schniewind, Achim - 2000
In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research
Morgan, Betty - 1995
"The rapidly emerging 'new science' of nonequilibrium systems theory may offer common property researchers and scholars …. Deriving from the dynamical holism of quantum physics, nonequilibrium theory engages the spontaneity, chaos, interrelatedness … paper explores the aspects of nonequilibrium theory which may be instructive in an expanded vision of common property …
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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435043
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Which Came First, IT or Productivity? The Virtuous Cycle of Investmentand Use in Enterprise Systems
Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Wu, D.J. - 2008
While it is now well established that IT intensive firms are moreproductive, a critical question remains: Does IT cause productivity orare productive firms simply willing to spend more on IT? We address thisquestion by examining the productivity and performance effects ofenterprise systems...
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Discussão dos retornos à escala nos contextos das funções de produção e de custo
Alves, Eliseu - 2007
form in the sense that it can be deduced from the axioms of production theory. But the articles points out the plausibility …
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Productiveness of czech organic farming
Kroupová, Zdeňka - 2012
agriculture production systems. The production functions were specified as the random effects models and estimated by generalized … Czech agriculture and their efficient use in frame of multifunctional agri-food systems“. …
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Crop yields in relations to dosage of nitrogen in the soil and economic conditions
Voltr, Václav; Leština, Jan; Froněk, Pavel - 2012
The article is dealing with the relation of the soil value and nitrogen needs as the major intensification factor jointly affecting the quality of the environment. According to the obtained data and knowledge from about 500 surveyed plots, the premises of production function proposals are...
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