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Trade Policy of Transition Economics
Moraga, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2000
This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are primarily characterized by a low quality of their products, large depreciations of their currencies, and a high degree of government intervention in economic activity. These...
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu- reaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422184
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Informationsbedarf auf dem Spendenmarkt
Dickertmann, Dietrich; Piel, Viktor - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 75 (1995) 1, pp. 49-56
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Small is beautiful: Experimental evidence of donors' preferences for charities
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
This paper studies the effect of information about a charity's size on individuals' donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the opportunity to donate for various charitable purposes. The results show that if subjects are...
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Was bestimmt die finanziellen Reserven spendensammelnder NPOs? Eine empirische Analyse möglicher Einflussfaktoren
Neubert, Luzius - 2006
die Angemessenheit des Finanzvermögens einzelner Organisationen im Vergleich mit der Gesamtbranche. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315398
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Standardization in information systems
Kimms, A. - 2001
common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …
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Normung und Innovation sind keine Gegensätze
Konrad, Anne; Zloczysti, Petra - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 40, pp. 10-15
Die Rolle von Normen innerhalb des Innovationssystems ist sehr umstritten. Es wird sogar vermutet, dass die Zeit der Normung bereits abgelaufen sei. Andererseits wird von einer erstarrenden Regelsetzung gesprochen, die die notwendige Flexibilität für Erfindungen und Innovationen verhindere....
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On platforms, incomplete contracts, and open source software
Niedermayer, Andras - 2007
standard cases of integration and non-integration: platform standardization (both parties can veto changes) and open source (no …
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Network effects, compatibility decisions, and monopolization
Woeckener, Bernd - 1998
This paper analyzes the compatibility decision of a dominant hardware supplier. There are two substitutive variants of the hardware component of a hardware-software system, they are horizontally differentiated, and one of the two has a quality advantage. Among other things, we show under what...
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Calling on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council: How to deliver for the planet and the economy
Guinea, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2024
This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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