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Driven by market opening and increased competition from electronic communication, postal operators have started extending their scope of business by offering hybrid mail services in addition to physical mail conveyance. This paper discusses commercial and regulatory aspects of reverse hybrid...
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We empirically investigate the pattern of complementarity between four organizational practices. Firm-level data were drawn from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) carried out in 2008 in Luxembourg. Supermodularity tests confirm the crucial role of organizational innovation in raising...
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This study uses a system-of-equations approach to model the substitution relationship between Australian domestic and … substitution analysis. Short-run demand elasticities are calculated based on the estimated dynamic almost ideal demand system. The … empirical results reveal significant substitution relationships between Australian domestic tourism and outbound travel to Asia …
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A Global Energy Market model (GEM) is used to analyze the market shares (i.e. the primary energy mix) of gases, liquids and solids in the Asia Pacific. The model is successful in matching the historical energy mix from 1850 to 2009. The model also provides a good match of the hydrogen to carbon...
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Most ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being, are globally declining, while the production of consumption goods, measured by GDP, is still growing. To adequately account for this opposite development in public cost-benefit analyses, it has been proposed - based on a...
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the US. Energy has a robust marginal product and significant substitution in a novel production function motivated by the …
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in which the individual sub-technologies have quasi-fixed proportions. Substitution across product lines is responsible …
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Mounting foreclosures and disclosures of abusive lending practices led many states to adopt new anti-predatory lending (APL) laws. Researchers have examined the impact of such laws on credit flows and the cost of credit. This research extends the literature by examining whether the market...
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approximates second order substitution effects. Poverty forecasts with these assumptions may overestimate or underestimate the … substitution by calculating a theoretically consistent food demand system, accounting for household responses to food price changes …
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