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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437106
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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441225
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Keeping pace with change in SMEs: creating and maintaining congruence and consistency in SMEs in transition economies.
Robinson, David A - 2008
option; it is crucial to the ongoing success of global businesses. Leadership that encourage innovation and entrepreneurial … work culture that supports high productivity, they may be inclined to fall back on tried and tested approaches from their … create shared perceptions that support innovation and entrepreneurship. This paper argues for congruency, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441634
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What happens when firms patent? New evidence from US economic census data
Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2007
-sectional differences in size and total factor productivity between patentee firms and non-patentee firms, changes in patent … total factor productivity. This evidence suggests that patenting is associated with firm growth through new product … innovations (firm scope) rather than through reduction in the cost of producing existing products (firm productivity). Consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476587
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Price response in multiple item choice: spillover effects of reference price
Kwak, Kyuseop - 2007
In this thesis, we develop a SKU level market basket model and apply the model to investigate cross-category reference price effects. This research extends previous work on the category-level multivariate logit model (Russell and Petersen 2000). Our model is a generalization of the multivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466061
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Multiproject baselines for evaluation of electric power projects
Sathaye, Jayant; Murtishaw, Scott; Price, Lynn; … - 2008
Calculating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate change mitigation projects requires construction of a baseline that sets emissions levels that would have occurred without the project. This paper describes a standardized multiproject methodology for setting baselines, represented by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436192
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868
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Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations
Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; … - 2007
the commonly asserted productivity-gain argument, but from a much broader investment-for-the-future argument. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439141
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UNEMPLOYMENT, IDENTITY, AND SELF-CONFIDENCE: THEORETICAL MODELS AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Nolen, Patrick - 2006
In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466172
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Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.
Pugatch, Todd M. - 2011
This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476664