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Understanding the Adoption of Web-Enabled Transaction Processing by Small Businesses
Dembla, Pamila; Palvia, Prashant; Krishnan, Balaji - 2007
The promise of the Internet and e-commerce has led to the increasing use of the web for transaction processing. Many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459118
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The declining profitability of litchi orchards in northern Thailand: Can innovations reverse the trend?
Schreinemachers, Pepijn; Potchanasin, Chakrit; Berger, … - 2009
Litchi is an important crop in the mountainous part of northern Thailand yet its profitability has declined during the last 15 years. The replacement of litchi fruit orchards for seasonal flowers and vegetables has external costs related to increased levels of soil erosion, pesticides, and...
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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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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
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Pollution perception. An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schuhmacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452479
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Anticipated shocks, optimal monetary policy, and welfare
Roland Winkler - 2009
Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...
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Nonindustrial private forestland owners: Estimating responses to economic and demographic changes
Snider, Anthony Glenn - 2002
This research endeavor consisted of two distinct efforts. First, following a literature review of the characteristics, objectives, and incentive programs available to nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners, the potential effects of wood chip mill harvests on forest management practices...
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14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2000
Autor, David H. - 2000
, educational credentials, health insurance markets, and Internet shopping. …
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Regulatory bias in the price structure of local telephone services
Pérez Montes, Carlos - 2012
Incluye bibliografía ; This article combines a discrete choice model of demand for residential local telephone access and an optimal price regulation model to estimate the welfare weights that state regulators place on consumers with different incomes and locations. I fi nd no evidence of a...
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Effects of ISP Interconnection Agreements on Internet Competition: TheCase of the Network Access Point as a Cooperative Agreement for InternetTraffic Exchange
Beltran, Fernando - Universidad de Los Andes - 2003
agreement for the exchange of domestic (national) traffichas been adopted all through the region; the Internet access market … Internet in South America. We have identified come crucialaspects such as the characteristics of the interconnection … stability of Internet growth in thecontext of the fast developing and ever more complex South AmericanInternet access markets …
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