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Making Economic Sense Out of Unisex Life Insurance (Or the Difference Between Cost and Value and Why It Matters to Real People)

Booth, Richard A., Marbury Research Professor of Law - 2002

In this piece, I take issue with one of the fundamental tenets of law and economics as it has been used to justify gender discrimination in the pricing of life insurance and annuities, namely, that individuals should bear their own identifiable costs so as to avoid misallocation of society's...

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Privacy, Value and Control Issues in Four Mobile Business Applications

Renegar, B. D.; Michael, K.; Michael, M. G. - 2008

This paper presents four case studies that explore the adoption and acceptance of mobile technologies and services within the context of the privacy-value-control (PVC) trichotomy. The technologies studied include: the mobile phone, electronic toll payment tags, e-passports, and loyalty card...

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Unlocking sustained business value from IT investments

Peppard, Joe; Ward, John - 2005

Surveys continue to highlight that most senior business executives aredissatisfied with the value they believe their organizations are deriving frominvestments in information technology. What is often forgotten is that IT initself has no inherent value. This value must be unlocked, and only...

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From Focus on Price to the Pyramid of Innovation, Information, Cooperation, Value and Trust: A Success Story of Five Swedish Building Material Manufacturers

Jan Sundquist - Halmstad Universitet - 2010

This is a reprint from vol 8 no 2 which has not previously beeen available electronically.In the building sector, value for the customer, is often regarded as being value for money and this, in turn, is achieved by means of competitive tendering. However, there are companies that also focus on...

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INOVAÇÃO DE VALOR COMO INSTRUMENTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DO AGRONEGÓCIO NA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL

Castro, Alberto William Viana De; Tourinho, Manoel Malheiros - 2008

A participação de centros de pesquisas aplicadas, na busca de solução para os problemas de inovação para o agronegócio na região amazônica, está ligada não somente às demandas do setor, mas também, a capacidade da utilização de suas habilidades e capacidades internas e de...

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Labor Cost and Value of Citrus Operations with Alternative Technology: Enterprise DCF Approach

Iwai, Nobuyuki; Emerson, Robert D.; Roka, Fritz M. - 2009

The prospect of immigration policy reform has renewed growers’ concerns of serious labor shortages and cost increases given that a large portion of the workforce is unauthorized for U.S. employment. This concern of labor shortages and cost increases is more serious for specialty crop...

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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

theory suggest that they work against efficiency when membership grows too diffuse. To address this issue, this study uses a …

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Explaining Economic Growth: Factor Accumulation, Total Factor Productivity Growth, and Production Efficiency Improvement

Limam, Yasmina Reem; Miller, Stephen M. - 2004

productivity growth, and production efficiency improvement. In addition, this paper incorporates the quality of inputs in analyzing …

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Simple-Offer vs. Complex-Offer Auctions in Deregulated Electricity Markets

Baltaduonis, Rimvydas - 2007

allocative efficiency more quickly. …

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Efficiency in Deregulated Electricity Markets: Offer Cost Minimization vs. Payment Cost Minimization Auction

Baltaduonis, Rimvydas - 2006

This study of the wholesale electricity market compares the efficiency performance of the auction mechanism currently … of the current auction with respect to efficiency is not that obvious. We present a case where the proposed auction … outperforms the current mechanism on efficiency even if all offers reflect true production costs. We also find that a market …

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