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A Taguchi method application for the part routing selection in Generalized Group Technology: A case Study
Hachicha, Wafik; Masmoudi, Faouzi; Haddar, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Cellular manufacturing (CM) is an important application of group technology (GT) that can be used to enhance both flexibility and efficiency in today’s small-to-medium lot production environment. The crucial step in the design of a CM system is the cell formation (CF) problem which involves...
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Environmental Policy à la Carte:Letting Firms Choose their Regulation
Krysiak, Frank C.; Oberauner, Iris Maria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2008
a permit market. This serves as a screening device; the firms reveal privateinformation by choosing an instrument. We …
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COST PADDING IN REGULATED MONOPOLIES
Bougheas, Spiros; Worrall, Tim - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2001
In this paper we consider a regulated monopoly that can pad its costs to increaseits cost reimbursement. Even while padding is ineácient the optimal incentivescheme tolerates some padding of costs to reduce the information rents paid tolow cost types. It is shown that high cost ßrms pad costs...
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What is good work? Different aspects of labor contracts in theory and experiment
Bleich, Sabrina - 2009
"Good work" is interpreted from an employer's and a worker's viewpoint. An economic experiment on the existence of intrinsic work motivation in a labor market setting is conducted. A theoretical model analyzes worker selection under exogenous unobservable intrinsic motivation and endogenous...
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Information technology in banking and entrepreneurship
Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2024
We study the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. Guided by a parsimonious model, we establish that job creation by young firms is stronger in US counties more exposed to banks with greater IT adoption. We present evidence consistent with banks' IT adoption...
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Welche Screeningmethode und Screeningtechnologie rechnet sich? - Eine exemplarische Kostenanalyse des Clamydienscreenings in Deutschland
Schulenburg, Johann-Matthias von der; Obermann, Konrad - 1997
in dieser Studie der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich aus ökonomischer Sicht ein Screening Programm bei geeigneter Wahl der … Screening-Technik lohnt. Dies ist der Fall, wenn die Kosten des Screenigs und der dann folgenden Infektions … entscheidend, wieviel Fälle durch ein Screening erkannt werden, und inwieweit sich die Infektionsraten und damit die Prävalenzraten …
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Der ehrbare Franchisegeber: Ein empirischer Beitrag
Ehrmann, Thomas - 2006
die untersuchten jungen Franchisesys teme werden die Screening- undSelbstselektionsargumente überwiegend bestätigt. Dabei … autonomy (the degree of organisation)resting with the franchisee are examined. For the young franchise systems in the analysis,screening …
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Screening with Multitasking
Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - 2022
heterogenous response improves screening efficiency: 1) all employees place similar value on staying in their current role; 2) the … announcement reduced the screening efficiency gap — defined as the reduction of screening efficiency stemming from the partial …
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Screening Green Innovation through Carbon Pricing
Ahlvik, Lassi; van den Bijgaart, Inge - 2022
subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We find that carbon pricing works as an innovation screening device … perfect screening and generalize results to screening policies under alternative intellectual property regimes and …
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Screening and loan origination time: Lending standards, loan defaults and bank failures
Bedayo, Mikel; Jiménez, Gabriel; Peydró, José Luis; … - 2023
strong bank distress events, overall consistent with lower screening (time). …
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