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Dairy Food Consumption, Production, and Policy in Japan

Beghin, John; Campo, Isabelle Schluep - Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute … - 2005

-term prospects of various segments of the industry. The paper concludes with policy recommendations of how to reform the Japanese …

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Japanese pricing policies

Howard, Carol; Herbig, Paul - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 13 (1996) 4, pp. 5-17

Reviews the strategy and cultural foundations of Japanese pricing practices. Looks at: pricing objectives, pricing factors, pricing tactics, discounts, rebates and credits. Concludes that for Japanese companies it is not the apparent profit an individual product can earn, but the profitability...

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Job Rotation and Public Policy: Theory with Applications to Japan and the USA

Mourdoukoutas, Panos; Roy, Udayan - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 6, pp. 57-71

Argues that the high job mobility observed most prominently among workers in Japanese firms is consistent with the behaviour of risk‐averse individuals when neither private nor public income insurance is widely available to displaced workers. Laissez faire is suboptimal and involves higher job...

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Walls and Fences: A Journey Through History and Economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control …

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How do you defend a network?

Dziubiński, Marcin; Goyal, Sanjeev - In: Theoretical Economics 12 (2017) 1, pp. 331-376

study of targeted defense. What are the 'key' nodes to defend to maximize functionality of the network? What are the … collective welfare? We first provide a characterization of optimal attack and defense in terms of two classical concepts in graph … resources spent on attack and defense) and helps us identify a new class of networks-windmill graphs-that minimize conflict. We …

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Growth and Collapse of Empires: A Dynamic Optimization Model

Yegorov, Yuri; Grass, Dieter; Mirescu, Magda; … - 2019

, transport costs and military (for defense and expansion). The emperor controls the military force subject to the constraints …

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Choosing to Serve: Understanding the Military Participation Decision

Mann, David R - 2011

With 2.4 million employees, the military is America's largest employer. Individuals make the military labor force participation decision within the context of other labor market opportunities, which may vary by race and over the business cycle. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic...

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The Ombudsman: Value of Expertise for Forecasting Decisions in Conflicts

Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - 2007

In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...

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National borders, conflict and peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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O setor de defesa brasileiro no exterior: Desafios, oportunidades e subsídios para a revisão dos documentos de defesa

Barros, Pedro Silva; Lima, Raphael Camargo; Barros, … - 2024

defense policy, support planning, and collaborate with democratic controls over the defense sector. The study's conclusion are …This paper aims to offer a panoramic view of the international performance of Brazilian defense sector. Based on an … exploratory study from a new dataset, our goal is to analyze both the international performance of the Brazilian defense sector …

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