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Productivity is an important indicator of competitiveness and economic health.Recent debate about the competitiveness of the UK economy has focused attentionon the gap between UK productivity and the productivity of other players in the globaleconomy, such as the US, France and Germany.A more...
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Within the sample of the three departments (DTI, OGC and HMT):Small businesses account for 71% of suppliers and 30% of spending. They facegreater obstacles in supplying government than medium and large companies, andhave fewer resources to be able to overcome these obstacles.Women-owned...
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analysis which relies on pricingdata instead of choice data. Since pricing data lead in many cases to a different ordering … comparative performance of the single theories differs significantly under these threetypes of pricing data. …
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For the Euro 2000 Soccer Championships an experimental asset market was conducted, with traders buying and selling contracts on the winners of individual matches. Market-generated probabilites are compared to professional bet quotas, and factors that are responsible for the quality of the market...
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Obwohl die konkrete Aufgabenstellung der objektiven Unternehmensbewertungvon ihren Vertretern weder einheitlich noch eindeutig umschrieben wird, ist den Vertreterndieser Konzeption jedoch die Vorstellung gemeinsam, den Wert eines Unternehmensmöglichst losgelöst von konkreten Bezugspersonen als...
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Für anlagenintensive Unternehmen in regulierten Märkten spielt die Ermittlung der Abschreibungskosteneine wesentliche Rolle bei der Genehmigung kostendeckender Preise. Während zur Problematiksteigender Wiederbeschaffungswerte eine Vielzahl von Ansätzen und Methoden entwickelt wurde,erfährt...
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An der Fachhochschule des bfi Wien wurde in Kooperation mit der OesterreichischenNationalbank eine Studie über die Veränderungen von Kreditvergabe, Bepreisungund Geschäftsfeldauswahl der österreichischen Banken vor dem Hintergrund vonBasel II durchgeführt. Aufbauend auf einer theoretischen...
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The observed prices of out-of-the money put options seem too high given standardderivative pricing models. One possible … explanation is a Peso problem: crashes (forwhich the payoff of a put is high) are taken into account for pricing, but are under … derived pricing restriction controllingfor the peso problem is violated.In this paper, we argue that the approach presented by …
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Consumers use price of a product both as a signal of product quality and as a monetary constraint in choosing it. Consequently, price has two distinct roles - informational and allocative - in the evaluation of a product. In this paper, we test the validity of a research approach proposed by...
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Retailers have been criticized for heavily relying on odd prices although their advantage over even prices has not been convincingly proven. In this paper we argue that such behavior does not have to stem solely from tradition, but may be seen as a rational way of dealing with uncertainty. We...
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