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Product variety and technical change
FRENSCH, Richard; GAUCAITE-WITTICH, Vitalija - Osteuropa-Institut <München> - 2006
Several trade-based measures of product variety have recently been used implicitly torepresent states of technology, promoting long-run growth. In this paper, we define thestate of technology as the range of specialised production processes and propose thevariety of capital goods available for...
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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds
Jackson, Matthew O.; Golub, Benjamin - 2007
We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and naïvely update their beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of their neighbors' opinions. A focus is on conditions under which beliefs of all agents in large societies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312406
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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds
Jackson, Matthew O.; Golub, Benjamin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and naïvely update their beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of their neighbors’ opinions. A focus is on conditions under which beliefs of all agents in large societies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423267
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Wu-Wei in Europe. A Study of Eurasian Economic Thought
Gerlach, Christian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This present paper focuses on the diffusion of wu-wei (an ancient Chinese concept of political economy) throughout … Europe, between 1648 and 1848. It argues that at the core of this diffusion process were three major developments; firstly … that the details of Chinese expertise entered Europe via the textual diffusion of Jesuit texts and the visual diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870828
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Modelling jumps in electricity prices: theoryand empirical evidence
Seifert, Jan; Uhrig-Homburg, Marliese - Institut für Industrielle Informationstechnik <Karlsruhe> - 2007
Objective of this paper is to enhance the understanding of modelling jumpsand to analyse the model risk based on the jump component in electricity markets.We provide a common modelling framework that allows to incorporate the main jumppatterns observed in electricity spot prices and compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008911537
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A Model of the Diffusion of Technology into SMEs
Thomas, Brychan - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2000
The paper considers technology diffusion and develops a model at the level of theSME. Technology diffusion in the form … developed elsewhere. A model oftechnology diffusion is developed including external sources, channels of technologytransfer, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022232
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Cross-Country Technology Diffusion:The Case of Computers
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1970and 1990 to investigate the determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strongevidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of human capital and withmanufacturing trade openness...
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Forecasting the Diffusion of anInnovation Prior to Launch
Albers, Sönke - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre <Kiel> - 2004
Companies that want to grow face a fundamental dilemma: They can only increasetheir current base of sales substantially if they introduce really new products into themarket. However, the risk of a market failure also increases with the degree of innovativenessof the product (Booz, Allen &...
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Instrumentelle Innovation im Change-Management -Die Übersetzungsleistungen des Managements
Berreth, Andrea; Zirkler, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2007
...In der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit soll der Eingang einer methodischen Innovation in einUnternehmen zum Zeitpunkt eines anstehenden Turnarounds genauer betrachtet werden. Innovationsteht dabei für Konzepte, Ideen und Methoden des Managements, die in dem Sinne ‚anders’ sind, alsdass sie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868118
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Grenzen der Diffusion von New Public Management : Eine polit-ökonomische Untersuchung für die Schweiz und ihre Gemeinden
Reber, Kilian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2006
Diffusion einer spezifischen Innovation analysieren zu können, ist es erst notwendig, sich überderen Eigenschaften im Klaren zu … Diffusion von New Public Management. Als Untersuchungsobjektewurden die Schweizer Gemeinden gewählt. Dies aus zwei Gründen … Grenzen der Diffusion von NPM mit einem polit-ökonomischenAnsatz erklärt werden kann. Dies wird sowohl theoretisch anhand …
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