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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising
Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013
Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202908
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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising
Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013
Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210716
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Il mercato del vino : tendenze strutturali e strategie dei concorrenti
Cesaretti, Gian Paolo (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003383720
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Wine quality and price : a hedonic approach
Gabbert, Silke - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000943270
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557905
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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?
Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012
Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628101
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The value of advice : evidence from mobile phone-based agricultural extension
Cole, Shawn; Fernando, A. Nilesh - 2012
Mobile phones promise to bring the ICT revolution to previously unconnected populations. A two- year study evaluates an innovative voice-based ICT advisory service for smallholder cotton farmers in India, demonstrating significant demand for, and trust in, new information. Farmers substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009678190
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The Biofuel Connection : Impact of US Regulation on Oil and Food Prices
Avalos, Fernando H. - 2015
Biofuel policies are frequently mentioned in the policy and academic debates because of their potential impact on food prices. In 2005, the United States authorities passed legislation under which corn-based ethanol became in practice the only available gasoline additive. Some studies have then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028278
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Power in the heterogeneous connections model : the emergence of core-periphery networks
Persitz, Dotan - 2009
solely on the types of the two end agents. Core periphery networks are defined as networks in which the agents' set can be … over the other, controlling for path length. An exhaustive analysis shows that core periphery networks, in which the … many cases these networks are the unique pairwise stable networks and in all cases they are the unique strongly efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810996
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Markets and Mandates : Retirement in Chile and the United States
Padi, Manisha - 2022
comparative case study, this Essay demonstrates that this approach has significant disadvantages. In Chile, retirement pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083339