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We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 and 2014. We show that previous analyses of the nexus between population size and government size are incorrectly specified and fail to consider the influence of cross-sectional...
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Copula modelling is a popular tool in analysing the dependencies between variables. Copula modelling allows the investigation of tail dependencies, which is of particular interest in risk and survival applications. Copula modelling is also of specific interest to economic and financial modelling...
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In real-world applications, costs for products are not deterministic: neither static nor dynamic. They actually tend to be non-stationary and cross-correlated. To overcome this drawback, there have been some efforts by researchers to extend the Wagner-Whitin algorithm to consider stochastic...
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Procurement has to find further levers and advance its contribution to corporate goals continuously. This places pressure on its organization in order to facilitate its performance. Therefore, procurement organizations constantly have to evolve in order to match these demands. A conceptual model...
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= 0.27, p < 0.001). Propensity-score matching models confirmed the above results. Overall, supply-side public spending … purchasing inpatient care services from private providers may not be a suitable strategy for such contexts. …
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paper investigates which individual factors support packaging free purchasing and what barriers hinder consumers to purchase … unpackaged food products. Additionally, it is tested whether the perception of barriers towards purchasing unpackaged food … products mediates the influence of pro-environmental personal norms on purchasing unpackaged food products. The main barriers …
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This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the … purchasing may be oriented, and c) suggest promising areas for future research. …
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individual parts. This paper explains how additive manufacturing will influence purchasing processes and network structures of … processes of purchasing. Traditional purchasing and modern processes affected by the implementation of additive manufacturing … of benefits e.g. reduced inventory. This exploration of the impact of additive manufacturing is focused on purchasing …
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the intangible value resources, creation of business valuation, intangible assets valuation methods and models - the … cooperation of scientific research and business. It's important to avoid a repeat of guidelines, methods, models and systems of …
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Virtually all Latin American and Caribbean countries have established specialized organizations to promote their exports. Existing analyses of these organizations are at best partial and fragmentary. This paper aims at overcoming these limitations of the literature by presenting a consistent,...
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