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The birth of a new industry: Entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth. The case of encryption software

Giarratana, Marco S. - 2003

The paper analyses the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new niche in the software industry. Using a …

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Intellectual property rights and market dynamics

Cesaroni, Fabrizio; Giuri, Paola - 2005

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Implications of the Changes in the System of National Accounts for Measured Growth and the Business Cycle

Vanhoudt, Patrick - 2002

The recent changes in the national accounts unequivocally imply that the nature of the measured growth rate and business cycle has changed. This note investigates to what extent.

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The economic properties of software

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

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The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Ó Gráda, … - 2004

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society. These arguments are often...

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Equal size, equal role? Interest rate interdependence between the Euro area and the United States

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2003

This paper investigates whether the degree and the nature of economic and monetary policy interdependence between the United States and the euro area have changed with the advent of EMU. Using real-time data, it addresses this issue from the perspective of financial markets by analysing the...

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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the millennium challenge corporation: Other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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Sincronización entre los cicles económicos de México y Estados Unidos: Nuevos resultados con base en el análisis de los indices coincidentes regionales de México

Delajara, Marcelo - 2012

In this paper we analyze the synchronization between the business cycles of US and Mexican regions. Regional economic activity in Mexico is measured using regional coincident indexes recently developed at Banco de México, while US aggregate economic activity is measured with the national...

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Secularism or catholicism? The religious composition of the United States to 2043

Skirbekk, Vegard; Goujon, Anne; Kaufmann, Eric - 2008

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue, Hispanic Catholics will experience rapid growth,...

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How successful are exchange rate communication and interventions? Evidence from time-series and event-study approaches

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates over the medium- to long-run. It compares empirical evidence based on time-series analysis with that obtained from an eventstudy approach. Both the time-series approach based...

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