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Industrial Targeting: Defensive or Offensive Strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
This paper introduces an experimental economy with boundedly rational agents that compete with local, and largely incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more or less unbounded, commercial opportunities. Predictability of outcomes at the micro level is...
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Business decision-making under uncertainty : evidence from employment and number of businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2013
uncertainty on firms' decisions and market outcomes. We construct alternative measures of uncertainty based on survey of … index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment and the … generally non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on firms' decisions …
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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2014
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of … non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428770
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Trapped in the "zero-risk" society and how to break free
Sornette, Didier; Cauwels, Peter - 2020
We live in a ‘zero-risk society', characterized by a culture that is obsessed with controlling and removing any possible risks. Obviously, one of the fundamental objectives of any civilization is to improve the safety and security of its citizens. However, we should not let the cozy comfort...
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Aggregate uncertainty and sectoral productivity growth : the role of credit constraints
Choi, Sangyup; Furceri, Davide; Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash - 2017
We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty - measured by stock market volatility - reduces productivity growth … uncertainty, firms that are credit constrained switch the composition of investment by reducing productivity-enhancing investment … uncertainty (Baker et al., 2016) is used instead of stock market volatility as a measure of aggregate uncertainty. …
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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops
Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - 2009
standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299491
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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops
Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-9, pp. 1-33
standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of …
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Web switching and international outsourcing: A matching approach
Hanley, Aoife; Ott, Ingrid - 2010
Formulating a model comprising transportation, uncertainty and price, we describe how Web procurement is likely to …
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Optimal Degree of Foreign Ownership under Uncertainty
Bircan, Çağatay - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2011
and uncertainty. I incorporate continuous levels of integration to the study of organizational choice in an existing model …
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Who Decides about Change and Restructuring in Organizations?
Meagher, Kieron; Wait, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
) controllable uncertainty increases; (ii) uncontrollable uncertainty decreases; (iii) the number of plants in the firm decreases …
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