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Moralische Grundlagen der liberalen Demokratie : über die Notwendigkeit und Bestimmung liberaler Bürgertugenden
Egle, Christoph - 2000
Untersuchung nach den Bestandsbedingungen der liberalen Demokratie, speziell nach deren moralischen Grundlagen. Diese werden im … Gegensatz zur klassischen politischen Theorie des Liberalismus nicht in der institutionellen Ordnung des Staates vermutet … Demokratie ist. Das zweite Ziel der Arbeit liegt in der Beantwortung der Frage, wie diese moralischen Orientierungen (liberale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476269
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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets
Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008
This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475007
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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
successful IT investments initiate a“virtuous cycle” of investment and gain. Our work alsoreveals other important estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435044
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The Impact of CO2 Emission Cuts on Income
Zhao, Xiaobing - 2011
We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444308
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A Nonparametric Kernel Representation of the Agricultural Production Function: Implications for Economic Measures of Technology
Livanis, Grigorios T.; Salois, Matthew J.; Moss, Charles B. - 2009
The issue of production function estimation has received recent attention, particularly in agricultural economics with … physical product through nonparametric estimation of the gradient of the production surface. Finally, the elasticities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444809
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446476
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Productiveness of czech organic farming
Kroupová, Zdeňka - 2012
The paper is focused on the identification of main production differences between Czech organic and conventional farming. The aim of this paper is a quantification of differences in production capability between organic and conventional farming and a quantification of differences in influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315962
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316020
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Oil prices and their effect on potential output
Estrada García, Angel; Hernández de Cos, Pablo - 2009
Despite the relevance in terms of policy, we still know little in Spain about where and by whom jobs are created, and how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that overcomes the problems encountered by other firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012529544