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Do Employers Respond to the Costs of Continued Search?

Bren, Vera; ccaron; i; ccaron - In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72 (2010) 2, pp. 221-245

An analysis of US and Slovenian vacancy data sets reveals that an employer who is searching to fill a job vacancy is more likely to fill the vacancy by hiring an under-qualified worker when the search costs are higher; when, at the start of the search, the employer has less time to search at low...

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Intertemporal analysis of employment decisions on agricultural holdings in Slovenia

Juvan, Luka; ccaron; i; ccaron; Erjavec, Emil - In: Agricultural Economics 33 (2005) 2, pp. 153-161

The article attempts to quantify determinants influencing the dynamics of employment decisions on agricultural holdings in Slovenia and to test specific aspects of labor reallocation during the transition period by the application of an agricultural household model. Through the use of a...

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Invention and Transfer of Climate Change--Mitigation Technologies: A Global Analysis

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Haš, Ivan; … - In: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5 (2011) 1, pp. 109-130

This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....

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On the internationalization of corporate boards: The case of Nordic firms

Oxelheim, Lars; Gregori, Aleksandra; ccaron; Randøy, Trond - In: Journal of International Business Studies 44 (2013) 3, pp. 173-194

This study investigates the internationalization of corporate boards, using a sample of 346 non-financial listed Nordic firms during 2001–2008. Given a high level of international activity, these firms have surprisingly few foreign directors. The picture of international expertise changes...

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Stock Market Reaction to Debt Financing Arrangements in Russia

Godlewski, Christophe; Fungá, Zuzana; ccaron; ová; … - In: Comparative Economic Studies 53 (2011) 4, pp. 679-693

This paper investigates stock market reaction to debt arrangements in Russia. The analysis of the valuation of debt arrangements by stock markets provides information about the use of debt by Russian companies. We apply the event study methodology to check whether debt announcements lead to...

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On Fair Routing from Emergency Departments to Hospital Wards: QED Queues with Heterogeneous Servers

Mandelbaum, Avishai; Mom, Petar; ccaron; ilovi; cacute; … - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 7, pp. 1273-1291

inverted-<i>V</i> model. We introduce the randomized most-idle (RMI) routing policy and analyze it in the quality- and … policy requires information that is unavailable in hospitals on a real-time basis. <i>This paper was accepted by Assaf Zeevi …, stochastic models and simulation.</i> …

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The Asymptotic Distribution of the S-Gini Index

Ri; ccaron; Zitikis, ardas; Gastwirth, Joseph L. - In: Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 44 (2002) 4, pp. 439-446

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UKRAINIAN MIDDLEMAN SYSTEM OF LABOUR ORGANISATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

DITA; Ccaron; ERMÁKOVÁ; NEKORJAK, MICHAL - In: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 100 (2009) 1, pp. 33-43

Since the early 1990s, due to increasing immigration to the Czech Republic, a middleman system has been established in order to organise (irregular) labour of migrants mostly from Ukraine. Due to its extent, the breadth of activities involved and interconnection with Mafia structures, this...

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A statistical model for natural gas standardized load profiles

Brabec, Marek; Konár, Ondrej; Malý, Marek; Pelikán, Emil - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C 58 (2009) 1, pp. 123-139

We present a statistical model for construction and application of standardized load profiles. Standardized load profile curves give a typical natural gas consumption pattern throughout a year in various time resolutions. Our semiparametric regression model uses three types of information,...

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Adaptive pointwise estimation in time-inhomogeneous conditional heteroscedasticity models

P.; Ccaron; í; zcaron; ek; Härdle, W.; Spokoiny, V. - In: Econometrics Journal 12 (2009) 2, pp. 248-271

This paper offers a new method for estimation and forecasting of the volatility of financial time series when the stationarity assumption is violated. Our general, local parametric approach particularly applies to general varying-coefficient parametric models, such as GARCH, whose coefficients...

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