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Transfer Pricing and Generalized Implicit Support Networks
Macey-Dare, Rupert - 2016
This paper generalizes the standard transfer pricing concept of implicit support flowing from a parent company to its subsidiary. The first extension is to assume that implicit support might be ve or -ve for the recipient. The second is to consider the possibility of implicit support flowing...
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Value of Trust : Pricing Utility Tokens in a Blockchain-based Network
Izhutov, Pavel - 2019
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the way trusted computing is delivered to end users. One of the pillars enabling the shift is a decentralized token-based business model. While intuitively appealing, little is known about the economic properties of such models. In this...
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Cooperative R&D Networks Among Firms and Public Research Institutions
Marinucci, Marco - 2014
This paper provides theoretical background to the increasing R&D cooperation among firms and public research institutions. We find that R&D spillovers may impede cooperation among firms or research institutions even when the cost of forming a link is negligible. Further, the presence of...
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The Choice of Contract Duration in Franchising Networks : A Transaction Cost and Resource-Based View
Gorovaia, Nina - 2018
Contract duration as component of contract design has both a transaction cost savings function by mitigating exchange hazards and a strategic value creation function by leveraging knowledge-based resources. Previous studies have not explained the value creation function of contract duration in...
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Investment-specific Technological Progress in Production Networks
Shirota, Toyoichiro - 2022
This paper argues that investment-specific technological progress (ISTP) conventionally identified with the relative price of investment, inevitably correlate with neutral technological progress in heterogeneous production networks. Consequently, the ISTP is an elusive concept to examine the...
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The digital layer : how innovative firms relate on the web
Krüger, Miriam; Kinne, Jan; Lenz, David; Resch, Bernd - 2020
In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Digital Layer to empirically investigate inter-firm relations at any geographical scale of analysis. The Digital Layer is created from large-scale, structured web scraping of firm websites, their textual content and the hyperlinks among them. Using...
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Information Sharing and Privacy in Networks
Gradwohl, Ronen - 2017
Users of social, economic, or medical networks share personal information in exchange for tangible benefits, but may be harmed by leakage and misuse of the shared information. I analyze the effect of enhancing privacy in the presence of two opposing forces: network effects and informational...
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Between spilling over and boiling down : network-mediated spillovers, absorptive capacity and productivity in European regions
Cortinovis, Nicola; Oort, Frank van - 2017
Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …
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Trust Network Sclerosis : The Hazard of Trust in Innovation Investment Communities
Babcock-Lumish, T. L. - 2014
This article considers the role of trust in structuring and sustaining entrepreneurial networks in Anglo-American communities. Interviews with stakeholders involved in innovation investment demonstrate how shared identity and experience serve as proxies for trust in influencing decisions, and...
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Essays on interbank markets
Fryxell, Vanessa Sternbeck - 2019
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