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Process spillovers and growth
Luckraz, Shravan - 2008
This paper develops an R&D based endogenous growth model in which the firm’s free-riding behavior, prompted by an incomplete technological protection at the industry level, can drive economic growth. Unlike existing endogenous growth models, it shows how free-riding behavior and process...
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Globalization, Rent Protection Institutions, and Going Alone in Freeing Trade
Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Şener, Fuat - 2009
We construct a two-country North–South Product-cycle model of trade with endogenous growth and trade barriers. We remove the scale effects on growth by incorporating rent protection activities by Northern incumbents. We examine the effects of two forms of globalization – an expansion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471711
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Globalization, rent protection institutions, and going alone in freeing trade
Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - 2009
We construct a two-country North–South Product-cycle model of trade with endogenous growth and trade barriers. We remove the scale effects on growth by incorporating rent protection activities by Northern incumbents. We examine the effects of two forms of globalization – an expansion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471783
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Cooperation under indirect reciprocity and imitative trust
Saavedra, Sergui; Smith, David; Reed-Tsochas, Felix - 2010
involving both reciprocity and social imitation when making cooperative decisions. However, currently, we have no systematic … understanding of how imitation, a mechanism that may also generate negative effects via a process of cumulative advantage, affects … favoring social imitation as an adaptive mechanism in populations of cooperating social actors. …
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Learning, bounded memory, and inertia
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos - 2008
This paper considers bounded-memory players in a coordination game, who imitate the most successful remembered actions. With exogenous inertia, risk-dominant equilibria are selected independently of the length of memory. Without inertia, Pareto-dominant equilibria arise when memory is long enough.
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Contagion and Efficiency
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Weidenholzer, Simon - 2008
We consider a population of agents, either finite or countably infinite, located on an arbitrary network. Agents interact directly only with their immediate neighbors, but are able to observe the behavior of (some) other agents beyond their interaction neighborhood, and learn from that behavior...
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Imitacinių IT įmonių informacinės sistemos sukūrimo galimybių tyrimas
Dulskis, Nerijus - 2011
Pastaruoju metu IT paslaugas teikiančių įmonių sparčiai daugėja, todėl ugdymo institucijos pasaulyje didelį dėmesį skiria praktinio darbo gebėjimų ugdymui šioje srityje. Tam taikomi įvairūs mokymo metodai ir technologijos. Pedagogai nuolat siekia priartinti praktinio darbo...
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Contractor Financial Capability Assessments
Ng, Thomas S.; Skitmore, Martin - 1999
The insolvency rate of construction companies is much higher than that of other types of companies. In order to survive, many contractors may try to submit suicidally low bids and/or obtain work that is beyond their financial capability. The employment of financially incapable contractors not...
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Infusion of information systems in the stockbroking sector
Gharavi, Hosein - 2006
The Australian stockbroking sector has been at the forefront of integrating information systems (IS) in its daily operations. Trade and clearance account for a large percentage of processes undertaken in a brokerage house. Upon integration of IS, the trade and clearance processes of the sector...
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LOGÍSTICA INTERNA DE FRUTAS, LEGUMES E VERDURAS (FLV) EM SUPERMERCADOS: UM ESTUDO MULTICASOS EM CAMPO GRANDE/MS.
Campeao, Patricia; Oliveira, Leidy Diana Souza De; … - 2008
A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de investigação o sistema de logística interna de FLV em supermercados. Estabeleceu-se como objetivo geral caracterizar as operações logísticas internas de FLV utilizadas pelos supermercados. Especificamente: a) identificar as atividades e fluxos da...
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