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Corporate Taxes and the Location of Intangible Assets Within Multinational Firms

Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2008

Intangible assets, like patents and trademarks, are increasingly seen as the key to competitive success and as the drivers of corporate profit. Moreover, they constitute a major source of profit shifting opportunities in multinational enterprises (MNEs) due to a highly intransparent transfer...

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Corporate Taxes, Profit Shifting and the Location of Intangibles within Multinational Firms

Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2008

Intangible assets are one major source of profit shifting opportunities due to a highly intransparent transfer pricing process. Our paper argues that multinational enterprises (MNEs) optimize their profit shifting strategy by locating shifting–relevant intangible property at affiliates with a...

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On the Structural Dimension of Competitive Strategy

Kaniovski, Serguei; Peneder, Michael - 2001

This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...

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Cumulative measures of absorbing joint Markov chains and an application to Markovian process algebras

Brenner, Freimut - 2007

Markov Models are of outstanding importance in the performance and reliability evaluation of computer systems and …

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Evaluating environment in international development

Uitto, Juha I. (contributor) - 2021

international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is … influenced efforts in a wide range of countries and what the implications are for evaluation. It also explores ways in which Big … scholars of environment studies, development studies, international relations, sustainable development and evaluation, as well …

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Evaluating national innovation systems: Key insights from the Finnish innoeval survey

Kotiranta, Annu; Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - 2009

This paper aims to provide new insights into the analysis of National Innovation Systems (NIS). Whereas the common approach is to analyze specific parts or a defined set of actors and their interactions, this paper attempts to take a more systemic approach by analyzing results of 13 surveys...

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Statistics e-learning platforms evaluation: Case study

Ahmad, Taleb; Härdle, Wolfgang Karl - 2008

students views? In this paper, we consider evaluate e-learning systems in statistics. We make an evaluation study, we analyze a … students sample of the methods: Factor analysis, Logit model. The common aim of this evaluation is to provide data to justify … questionnaire covers information about e-learning evaluation criterias. Some of these criterias are: Navigability, applicability …

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An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s

Sianesi, Barbara - 2001

The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system of active labour market programmes, which have thus frequently been regarded as a model for other countries to emulate. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the...

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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: Overall effectiveness and differential performance

Sianesi, Barbara - 2002

The 'Swedish model' of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general...

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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?

Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995

In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has …'experts locaux dans la planification et l'évaluation des programmes de développement a augmenté de façon constante. L …

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