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Biodiversity Prospecting Over Time and Under Uncertainty: A Theory of Sorts
Batabyal, Amit; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014
a wild organism with a certain quality at a point in time then it will never use this same organism at a subsequent … point in time. Second, we show that if our PF uses a particular organism with its quality at a point in time then it will … continue to produce the drug with the chemicals from this organism at all later points in time. Third, we show that there is a …
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Biodiversity Prospecting over Time and under Uncertainty: A Theory of Sorts
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
a wild organism with a certain quality at a point in time then it will never use this same organism at a subsequent … point in time. Second, we show that if our PF uses a particular organism with its quality at a point in time then it will co … ntinue to produce the drug with the chemicals from this organism at all later points in time. Third, we show that there is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256729
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Are the Unskilled Really That Unaware? Understanding Seemingly Biased Self-Assessments
Krajc, Marian - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2008
The so-called unskilled-and-unaware problem was experimentally identified a decade ago: The unskilled are seemingly afflicted by a double curse because they also seem unaware of their (relative) lack of skills. Numerous authors have elaborated on this problem – experimentally as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357525
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Imperfect Recall and Time Inconsistencies: An experimental test of the absentminded driver "paradox"
Levati, Vittoria M.; Uhl, Matthias; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Absentmindedness is a special case of imperfect recall which according to Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) leads to time … provide evidence for time inconsistencies in all treatments. We introduce a behavioral principal, which best explains the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511322
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CONSUMER SEARCH: NOT ENOUGH OR TOO MUCH?
Zwick, Rami; Rapoport, Amnon; Lo, Alison King Chung; … - EconWPA - 2001
We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for the best alternative from a known and finite set of multi-attribute alternatives. In contrast to most previous studies, we make no distributional assumptions about the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408222
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Strategic Self-Ignorance
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013
experiment using prepared, restaurant-style meals—a good that is transparent in immediate pleasure (taste) but non-transparent in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818646
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The Impact of E-Commerce Strategies on Firm Value: Lessons from Amazon.com
Filson, Darren; Williams, Karyn - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College - 2001
Managers would like to understand which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments, and researchers are just beginning to explore this issue. Which strategies are useful and which are not? In a step towards answering this question, we estimate the impacts of several competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795962
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The Impact of E-Commerce Strategies on Firm Value: Lessons from Amazon.com and its Early Competitors
Filson, Darren - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College - 2002
Which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments? In a step towards answering this question, this paper estimates the impacts of several competitive strategies on the values of the well-known Internet retailer Amazon.com and three of its early competitors, BarnesandNoble.com, CDNOW,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005453652
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Perceived Barriers to E-commerce: Empirical Evidence from EU Countries
Simicevic, Vanja; Jakovic, Bozidar; Jezovita, Josip - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 11 (2013) 1, pp. 123-130
Internet usage is growing rapidly among the world. Furthermore, Internet usage is widely accepted among EU countries' citizens. In this paper intend is to research to what extent Internet sales by individuals is influenced by the barriers people perceive to buying/ordering over the Internet,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904438
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Market Structure and Entry: Where's the Beef?.
Toivanen, O.; Waterson, M. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2001
matters greatly: for both firms, rival presence increases the probability of entry. We control for market specific time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146927