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Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...
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Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...
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We study equilibrium trading strategies, market liquidity, and price efficiency in an economy in which a fraction of better-informed speculators displays preferences consistent with Kahneman and Tversky’s (1979) Prospect Theory, i.e., loss aversion, risk seeking over losses, and nonlinear and...
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This dissertation studies two interesting business cycle issues. The first issue concerns the effectiveness of tax policies in stimulating an economic recovery. The second issue concerns the costs of business cycle fluctuations to an investor who chooses to invest in risky assets. The first...
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The consumption capital asset pricing model is the standard economic model used to capture stock market behavior. However, empirical tests have pointed out to its inability to account quantitatively for the high average rate of return and volatility of stocks over time for plausible parameter...
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Research on public good auctions is intended to initiate development on new approaches to finance public goods, beyond government and philanthropic efforts. The researchers evaluate the potential to identify economic value for a subset of ecosystem servicesand markets that have the potential to...
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Convergent evidence for detrimental effects of punishment on cooperation has been obtained in a wide variety of … detrimental effects. In a public goods game, privately implemented punishment reduces cooperation in relation to a baseline …, cooperation is sustained at significantly higher rates than in both baseline and private punishment treatments. Our data provide …
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cooperation, a community enforcement mechanism was used, whereby selfish nodes that drop packets were punished not only by the … cooperation. This scheme also eliminated the need to infer the private history of other nodes. Moreover, it simplified the …. A range of simulations was carried out that showed improved cooperation between selfish nodes when compared to older …
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lightweight trust-based security mechanisms and a cooperation enforcement protocol for wireless sensor networks.This dissertation ….The dissertation also addresses non-cooperation problems in multi-user wireless sensor networks. A scalable lightweight enforcement … algorithm using evolutionary game theory is also designed. The effectiveness of this cooperation enforcement algorithm is …
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