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This paper studies an analytically tractable model of the formation and evolution of chains of production. Over time, entrepreneurs accumulate techniques to produce their good using goods produced by other entrepreneurs and labor as inputs. The value of a technique depends on both the...
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and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … together on each variable in fairly similar circumstances. Suppose, finally, that the geographic pattern of diffusion is the …
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on the economic impacts of this concept and especially the knowledge diffusion effects from trained to non … analyzing knowledge diffusion effects of FFS in Africa. Results show that the share of trained farmers in a community is a … decisive factor for adoption behavior and knowledge diffusion. It is concluded that when introducing an FFS, a critical mass of …
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This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...
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decisions in the option market. The article shows how the innovation emerged and what factors influenced the diffusion process. …
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how the European Emission Trading System (EU ETS) as the core climate policy instrument of the European Union has impacted innovation. Towards this end, we investigate the impact of the EU ETS on research, development, and demonstration (RD&D),...
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In this paper, we conduct a cross-country quantitative analysis of the replacement incentives generated by the EU ETS for the power sector in 2008-12. In order to do so, the allocation rules of the Member States are applied to concrete reference power plants for three different fuel types...
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violence, with diffusion variables that determine the degree to which ethnic violence diffuses across time and across … violence. In contrast to previous research we find that geographical distance does not affect the diffusion of ethnic violence … when controlling for social similarity which exerts a significant influence on diffusion. Results make a strong case for …
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The paper investigates the choice between conventional and organic production technologies for individual farmers in Hungarian agriculture. We employ sequential logit model on a cross-section data set of Hungarian farmers for the period 2007. Our estimations reveal that age of farmers has...
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The article presents the ISO/IEC 29110 Profile Implementation Methodology that was developed to manage consistent implementation of individual ISO/IEC 29110 Profiles in the open-source content management tool Eclipse Process Framework Composer. Such an implementation enables effective managing...
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