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Crowding Out or Complementarity in the Telecommunications Market?

Ribeiro, Ricardo; Vareda, Joao - London School of Economics; Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2007

There is a substantial number of cases where the a priori relationshipbetween products is not at all clear in the sense that although apparentto be clear substitutes may turn out to be in fact complements, orvice-versa. This paper aims to study the relationship between fixed andmobile telephony...

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Maintaining Analytic Utility while Protecting Confidentiality of Survey and Nonsurvey Data

Singh, Avinash C. - 2010

treatment by perturbation (i.e., substitution of IVs and not SVs) and suppression (i.e., subsampling-out of records). In this … records. Survey sampling techniques of sample allocation are used to assign substitution and subsampling rates to risk strata … defined by unique and nonunique records such that bias due to substitution and variance due to subsampling for main study …

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Beschaffung, Handel und Konsum illegaler Drogen im Strafvollzug - Eine Situationsanalyse -

Filter, Ilona - 2010

Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...

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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Musalem, Andres - 2010

information on product availability. Our model allows for flexible substitution patterns, which are based on utility maximization …

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Empirical and theoretical contributions to substitution issues

Frondel, Manuel - 2001

Empirische und Theoretische Beiträge zum Thema SubstitutionDer thematische Schwerpunkt dieser Dissertation besteht in derökonometrischen Schätzung von Produktionsfunktionen (primaler Ansatz)beziehungsweise den dazu dualen Kostenfunktionen (dualer Ansatz) zum Zweckeder Bestimmung von...

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Essays in Telecommunications Economics

Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008

In the past decades telecommunications markets all over the world have changed immensely. Liberalization and privatization stimulated competition in fixed line telecommunications and helped increasing efficiency. Prices in fixed line telecommunications markets have decreased significantly, and...

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Interpreting Ecological Economics in the Neoclassical Paradigm: Limits to Substitution and Irreversibility in Production and Consumption

Stern, David I - 1996

economics is characterized by various arguments concerning limits to substitution between various inputs (energy, natural …, various authors have also expressed concerns regarding limits to substitution in consumption. Ideas about irreversibility in …

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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2009

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift towards more...

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“Entrepreneurial management” as a strategic choice in firm behavior : linking it with performance

Kuhn, Brite; Sassmannshausen, Sean; Zolin, Roxanne - 2010

Establishing the core principals of “entrepreneurial management” within an organization describes a certain strategic choice that affects a company in six dimensions, according to Stevenson (1983). Our aim is to empirically measure entrepreneurial management (it’s existence and degree) and...

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Three Essays on Firm Behavior and Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslav Republics.

Koman, Matjaz - 2009

This dissertation shows how the transformation of social ownership to private ownership affected the behavior of firms and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ objective remains the maximization of income per worker and, on the other...

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