Narrow search
Showing 72,801 - 72,810 of 74,522
Cover Image
ENTREPRENORIAL ACTIVITY VERSUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
Anghel, Flavia; Glăvan, Bogdan - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 4 (2009) 1, pp. 59-64
Entrepreneurship is one of the fastest-growing discipline throughout the world. However, the importance of entrepreneurship in economic theory is not new and consistent interest in this topic can be traced back to almost a century ago. As with any young discipline, the role and content of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487219
Cover Image
TWO-MACHINE FLOW-SHOP MINIMUM-LENGTH SCHEDULING WITH INTERVAL PROCESSING TIMES
NG, C. T.; MATSVEICHUK, NATALJA M.; SOTSKOV, YURI N.; … - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 26 (2009) 06, pp. 715-734
The flow-shop minimum-length scheduling problem with n jobs processed on two machines is addressed where processing times are uncertain: only lower and upper bounds of the random processing times are given before scheduling, but their probability distributions are unknown. For such a problem,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487389
Cover Image
Open University Admission Policies and Drop Out Rates in Europe
Oppedisano, Veruska - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2009
The paper develops a model of educational choices with uncertainty to account for the high drop out rate in countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487702
Cover Image
The (Adverse) Effects of Expanding Higher Education: Evidence from Italy
Oppedisano, Veruska - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2009
of educational choices with uncertainty is derived and estimated. Findings suggest that enrollment rose, particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487709
Cover Image
Intergenerational justice when future worlds are uncertain
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009
Ethical Observer (EO) who maximizes intertemporal welfare under this uncertainty, with expected-utility preferences. Various … utilitarian program diverges, then we prove it is optimal for the extended Rawlsian to ignore the uncertainty concerning the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555419
Cover Image
An Integrated CVaR and Real Options Approach to Investments in the Energy Sector
Fortin, Ines; Fuss, Sabine; Hlouskova, Jaroslava; … - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2007
adoption decision of particular technologies under uncertainty. These technologies are coal-fired power plants, biomassfired …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572024
Cover Image
Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2002
The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572065
Cover Image
Complete Monotonicity, Background Risk, and Risk Aversion.
Caballe, J; Pomansky, A - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1996
This paper analyzes how the statistical properties of a risk affect the attitutde of individuals towards accepting another independent risk. We conduct the analysis for the class of increasing utility functions having all their derivatives with alternating sign.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572168
Cover Image
Information-Sharing Implications of Horizontal Mergers
Albert Banal-Esta?l - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2002
We analyze the effects of uncertainty and private information on horizontal mergers. Firms face uncertain demands or … costs and receive private signals. They may decide to merge sharing their private information. If the uncertainty parameters … are independent and the signals are perfect, uncertainty generates an informational advantage only to the merging firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572209
Cover Image
Equitity prices and Monetary Policy: An Overview with an Exploratory Model
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2002
to the misalignment of equity prices is desirable. However, the presence of uncertainty in the estimation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572444