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Online consumer-to-consumer communication networks : an economic exploration of their formation and value

Harmsen-van Hout, Maria [Marjolein] Juliëtte Wilhelmina - 2009

Online Consumer-to-Consumer Communication Networks are characterized by informational and social benefits as well as time and effort costs for participants. Therefore, this dissertation takes an economic perspective on the network formation process as a determinant of value for consumers and...

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Simulation der langfristigen Entwicklung des europäischen Elektrizitätsmarktes

Paulun, Tobias - 2009

Mit der Liberalisierung des europäischen Marktes für elektrische Energie haben sich die Randbedingungen für alle in diesem Markt tätigen Unternehmen grundlegend verändert. Um das langfristige Ziel eines europäischen Binnenmarktes zu erreichen, sind erhebliche Eingriffe in die unter...

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Risk, Behavior and Evolution

Netzer, Nick - 2007

Diese Doktorarbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten, die in der Zeit von Oktober 2004 bis Oktober 2007 geschrieben wurden, während ich Teilnehmer am "Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance" an der Universität Konstanz war. Meine Forschungsinteressen...

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Strategic Misrepresentation of Information : Implications of Biased and Diverse Information in Capital Markets

Kleinert, Martin - 2006

Today's predominant disclosure philosophy calls for the fulldisclosure of all decision relevant information bycompanies. More publicly available information, theargument goes, limits the adverse selection problem by reducinginformation asymmetry among heterogeneous investors. Thus, theliquidity...

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Network Formation and International Trade

Jorzik, Nathalie - 2009

Die Gründung des GATT Abkommens im Jahr 1947 sowie die Welthandelsorganisation führten zu weltweiten Zollsenkung. Seit deren Gründung haben sich mehr als 150 Länder innerhalb von acht Verhandlungsrunden auf Zollsenkungen von durchschnittlich 40% auf nunmehr 4% geeinigt.Hauptsäule der WTO...

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Advances in strategic network formation : preferences, centrality, and externalities

Buechel, Berno - 2009

The importance of social and economic networks has meanwhile been widely acknowledged throughout social sciences. Network positions are supposed to be important for both, consumers and suppliers. Examples are R&D collaborations, strategic alliances, knowledge management within organizations,...

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ECONOMICS OF PATENTING A RESEARCH TOOL

Koo, Bonwoo; Wright, Brian D. - 2002

When a new technology consists of sequences of innovations that culminate in a finalconsumer product, the balance between successive innovators is one of the main concernsin the design of the patent system. While intertemporal aspects of incentive are critical inthis environment of sequential...

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Financial liberalisation in India and a new test of the complementarity hypothesis

Pentecost, E J; Moore, T - 2006

This paper reappraises the financial repression hypothesis for India in the light of the partial liberalisation of the financial sector in the early 1990s, using for the first time, state-of-art multivariate cointegration and vector error correction models (VECM). From this robust test we find...

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Inter-temporal Effect of Technological Capabilities on Firm Performance: a Longitudinal Study of the U.s. Computed Tomography Industry (1972-2002)

Chopra, Ankush - 2007

technological capabilities or not. I predict and find that in low complementarity contexts, as technology advances, customer demand …

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Complementarity between internal R+D and buying knowledge: the case of manufacturing and innovative plants in Chile.

Zamorano, Felipe V. - 2009

This study evaluates the hypothesis of complementarity in a case where a firm considers undertaking two types of … and innovative plants in Chile. The results do not support the hypothesis of complementarity and suggest a substitution … between innovation activities that were takeninto consideration. The absence of complementarity in the group of studied plants …

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