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Cooperating for the Future: A Case Study of the Ashkelon Desalination Plant
Ziv, Sarina Traci - 2010
The purpose of this thesis was to determine when it could be advantageous for two competing technology companies to … competitor, if their collaboration promises to result in a breakthrough technology or advancement for an emerging market. In …
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The impact of plant-level resource reallocations and technical progress on U.S. macroeconomic growth.
Petrin, Amil; White, T. Kirk; Reiter, Jerome P. - 2011
's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010 …) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …
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A Subsidized Vickrey Auction for Cost Sharing
Schwartz, Jesse; Wen, Quan - 2007
We introduce a subsidized Vickrey auction for cost sharing problems. Although the average, marginal, and serial cost sharing mechanisms are budget-balanced, they are not allocatively efficient and they do not induce players to truthfully reveal their values as a dominant strategy. The...
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Financial considerations of policy options to enhance biomass utilization for reducing wildfire hazards.
Becker, Dennis R.; Larson, Debra; Lowell, Eini C. - 2009
The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted by federal and...
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Nile perch demand in the Netherlands: are exports from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda source-differentiated?
Muhammad, Andrew - 2009
This study examined Nile perch demand in the Netherlands and assessed the importance of country of origin as a … determining factor. Import demand equations were estimated using the absolute price version of the Rotterdam model where Nile …). The Armington framework (source-differentiation) is often used when estimating import demand for a similar product from …
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AEC industry culture: a need for change
Weippert, Achim; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2004
participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …
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Export specialization and economic growth
Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001
Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
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Government Services Information Infrastructure Management
Cavallini, J.S.; Aiken, R.J. - 2009
the adoption and use of industry standards, and that provide a significant technology marketplace. …
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Audit unto others{hor_ellipsis}
Maday, J.H. Jr. - 2008
My first encounter with a quality assurance auditor is reminiscent of an old Dodge commercial. You remember? The old sheriff, masked in mirrored sunglasses, paunch hanging over his gun belt, prophesying, ``You`re in a heap o` trouble boy!`` Well, my auditor could have been kin to the sheriff; they...
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