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Revenue Sharing and Control Rights in Team Production: Theories and Evidence from Joint Ventures.*
Bai, Chong-En; Tao, Zhigang; Wu, Changqi - 2003
Grossman-Hart-Moore Property Rights Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory of the firm, and emphasizes the impact of … control arrangements o?ers strong support to our Property-Rights-Theory motivated model with self investment but rejects that … with cooperative investment. The Transaction-Cost-Theory motivated model leaves some important empirical findings …
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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Kim, E. Han - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476932
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Coordination Costs, Organization Structure and Firm Growth.
Zhou, Yue Maggie - 2008
This dissertation views firms as systems of interdependent activities and investigates the role of coordination costs in setting limits to firms’ growth strategies and organization structure. It contains three interrelated studies. Study I examines the impact of coordination costs on firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477098
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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models
Parker, Frederick - 2011
generate dead weight loss whenmaximizing producer surpluses as expected under prevailing microeconomic theory. Theuse of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443786
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Shared Versus Separate Networks - The Impact of Reprovisioning
Sen, Soumya; Guérin, Roch A; Hosanagar, Kartik - 2009
As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438861
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Essays in international finance and search theory.
Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992
This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439095
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Equilibrium, efficient-markets, and liquidity in the cash-in-advance model
Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez; Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez - 1991
equilibrium theory. Consider, for instance, the case of the efficiency of forward exchange rates vis-a-vis spot rates. Depending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441845
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ESTIMATION OF THE LINEAR AND QUADRATIC EXPENDITURE SYSTEMS FOR COLOMBIAN HOUSEHOLDS
MARTIN, THOMAS LEE; MARTIN, THOMAS LEE - 1981
This study is an empirical analysis of household expenditure behavior using the Linear and Quadratic Expenditure Systems. The expenditure systems are estimated using data collected in 1972 by the Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadisticas (DANE) of Bogota, Colombia. The Linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441861
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Essays on parametric and nonparametric modeling and estimation with applications to energy economics
Gao, Weiyu; Gao, Weiyu - 1999
My dissertation research is composed of two parts: a theoretical part on semiparametric efficient estimation and an applied part in energy economics under different dynamic settings. The essays are related in terms of their applications as well as the way in which models are constructed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441863
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Three essays on time series with nonstandard nonstationary models
Miller, James Isaac; Miller, James Isaac - 2005
In the first chapter; we consider nonlinear transformations of random walks driven by thick-tailed innovations with infinite means or variances. In particular, we show how nonlinearity, nonstationarity, and thick tails interact to generate persistency in memory, and we clearly demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441866