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Public services and the GATS
Adlung, Rolf - 2005
The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional conditions governing supply (e.g. ownership status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326697
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A theory of the informal sector
Azuma, Yoshiaki; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2002
In many countries, especially poor countries, a heavy burden of taxes, bribes, and bureaucratic hassles drives many producers into the informal sector. Is this situation explicable only as a consequence of either the ignorance or the ineptitude of the state authorities? On the contrary this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318889
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Performance improvement in public organizations: How to enlarge ICT investments
Martikainen, Olli; Autere, Jussi; Nurmela, Markku - 2006
The research analyses effective ways and means of improving the performance of public sector organizations. Etlatieto and TietoEnator have organized the study on the basis of interviews of key public sector managers in four Nordic countries. Special attention was paid to methods employing...
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Land-price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations
Liu, Zheng; Wang, Pengfei; Zha, Tao - 2011
We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292308
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Investment spending, equilibrium indeterminacy, and the interactions of monetary and fiscal policy
Lubik, Thomas A. - 2003
guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293451
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Toward a theory of evaluating predictive accuracy
Kunst, Robert M.; Jumah, Adusei - 2004
using an empirical example of UK investment data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293709
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Econometric issues in estimating user cost elasticity
Schaller, Huntley - 2006
The user cost elasticity is a parameter of considerable importance in economics, with implications for the effects of budget deficits, tax-based savings incentives, monetary policy, corporate taxes, and tariffs and quotas on capital goods. This paper analyzes the econometric issues that account...
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Environmental Regulation and Investment: Evidence from European Industries
Leiter, Andrea M.; Parolini, Arno; Winner, Hannes - 2009
behavior. In particular, we ask whether and how strongly investment decisions of firms respond to stringency in environmental … estimate the differential impact of environmental stringency on four types of investment: gross investment in tangible goods …, in new buildings, in machinery, and in `productive' investment (investment in tangible goods minus investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294840
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Financial Risks, Bankruptcy Probabilities, and the Investment Behaviour of Enterprises
Kirchesch, Kai - 2004
The link between investment and finance usually enters the empirical literature in the form of financial constraints … credit market. In this context, the sensitivity of investment with respect to single internal or external finance indicators … resulting empirical investment function includes the probability of survival as an additional explanatory variable. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295432
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Financial constraints for investors and the speed of adaptation: Are innovators special?
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2004
?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … financing conditions. Financial constraints affect the distribution of investment over time in a fundamental way. Following a … on Schworm?s (1980) model of optimal investment under financial constraints, we use it to test the empirical content of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295647