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Driving Honda : inside the world's most innovative car company

Rothfeder, Jeffrey - 2014

makes the company tick. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at its revolutionary factory in Lincoln, Alabama, a paradigm of …, Alabama, a paradigm of Honda's unique flexible manufacturing system. At Lincoln, several different types of cars can be … makes the company tick. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at its revolutionary factory in Lincoln, Alabama, a paradigm of …

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Budgeting : a comparative theory of budgetary processes

Wildavsky, Aaron B. - 1975 - 1. print

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European and Japanese investments in Alabama

Abe, Kiyoshi - In: Best papers proceedings 3 (1993) 2, pp. 140-147

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Divergence – Is it geography?

Straubhaar, Thomas; Suhrcke, Marc; Urban, Dieter M. - 2002

This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold regression technique in econometrics. In...

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Do energy prices induce progress in energy-related technology? An empirical study

Schmitz, Simon - 2001

Research efforts towards new energy sources and towards the efficiency of energy use will be vital to reducing CO2 abatement costs in the long term. Can such efforts be induced by price instruments? Economists often cite induced technological change as a possible consequence of environmental...

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Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Lüders, Erik; Schröder, Michael - 2004

This paper presents and compares several time-series models for returns of broadbased stock indices. These models nest a nonlinear asymmetric GARCH (NGARCH) model as a special case. Some of these models are empirically motivated ad-hoc specifications others are derived from a representative...

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Trade Policy: 'Political' vs. 'Economic' Factors

Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002

The ongoing discussion of U.S.-Japanese trade relations suggests that national differences such as in the institutional environment may be relevant for assessing international trade policies. However, economic trade theory often assumes countries to be organized around common notions of complete...

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Labor Market Incorporation of Immigrants in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...

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Complementarities in Corporate Governance - A Survey of the Literature with Special Emphasis on Japan

Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1999

The present paper uses a comparison of Japan and the US to argue that the debate about corporate governance reform is best framed in terms of systems of complementary instruments and institutions. It argues that the Japanese and US systems of corporate governance differ along many dimensions,...

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Deflation, Kreditklemme, Bankenkrise - Erwacht Deutschlands Finanzindustrie 2004 aus ihrem (medialen) Albtraum?

Paul, Stephan; Stein, Stefan; Thieme, H. Jörg - In: ifo Schnelldienst 57 (2004) 01, pp. 14-23

»Deflation«, »Kreditklemme« und »Bankenkrise« waren die Schlagworte in derFinanzpresse des Jahres 2003. Insbesondere hier zu Lande wurde über Monate in den Medien davon gesprochen, dass sich Deutschland in der japanischen Malaise befände. In ihrem Beitrag gehen Prof. Dr. Stephan Paul,...

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