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Modelling spatially correlated error structures in the time-space extrapolation of purchasing power parities
Rambaldi, Alicia N.; Rao, D. S. Prasada; Ganegodage, K. … - 2010
This book deals with the currently most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the … international comparisons of macroeconomic aggregates, a re-consideration of index numbers theory, the measurement of production in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448528
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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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Transaction cost-theory based investigation of the space management in supermarkets
Vogler, Thomas - 2006
Im traditionellen Lebensmittel-Supermarkt stellt die Verkaufsfläche neben dem Personal wohl den wichtigsten Leistungsfaktor dar. Dieser Faktor ist aber mit hohen fixen Kosten belastet. Ein Ziel von Lebensmitteleinzelhandelsunternehmen ist, den Ertrag auf der bestehenden Verkaufsfläche zu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448913
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Regional differences in agricultural profitability, government payments, and farmland values: Implications of DuPont expansion.
Mishra, Ashok K.; Moss, Charles B.; Erickson, Kenneth W. - 2009
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to use the DuPont expansion to examine those factors underlying differences in (rates of) return on different crop portfolios over space (ten regions) and time (1960-2004). The paper also estimates the impact of government payments on farmland values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429430
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Uncertainty in TMDL Models.
Shirmohammadi, A.; Chaubey, I.; Harmel, R.D.; Bosch, D.D.; … - 2006
Although the U.S. Congress established the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program in the original Clean Water Act of 1972, Section 303(d), it did not receive attention until the 1990s. Currently, two methods are available for tracking pollution in the environment and assessing the effectiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429563
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Optimality, Sub-optimality, Nirvana, and Transaction Costs Foraging on the Commons
Feeny, David - 1995
Published as Feeny, David, "Sub-Optimality and Transaction Costs on the Commons," in Edna Tusak Loehman and D. Marc Kilgour (eds.), Designing Institutions for Environmental and Resource Management (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 1998), 124-141. "Much of the literature on the...
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The Missing Link: Collective-Choice Policymaking in Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Public Child Care Centers
Bushouse, Brenda K. - 1999
to explain nonprofit production of certain types of goods. Hansmann (1980, 1986) developed Contract Failure Theory to …. Weisbrod (1977, 1988) developed the theory of Market/Government Failure to explain nonprofit production of collective goods … primary justification for the nonprofit institutional form. In Contract Failure Theory it signals quality to consumers because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468484
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468491
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459022