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Optimal industrial classification: [an application to the German industrial classification system]

Chipman, John Somerset; Winker, Peter - 1994

A widely used method in the analysis of complex econometric models is to replace the "true model" by an aggregative one in which the variables are grouped and replaced by sums or weighted averages of the variables in each group. The analysis of the problem of choosing an aggregative model...

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Issues in stability of European money demand: Adjustment speed versus error variance

Läufer, Nikolaus K. A. - 1997

The current discussion about stability of the European money demand function is flawed by a confusion of two different concepts of stability (adjustment speed versus error variance). The meaning and importance of the underlying notions of stability is clarified. It is demonstrated that necessary...

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Tax competition for foreign direct investment

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 1997

We analyze tax competition between two countries of unequal size trying to attract a foreign-owned monopolist. When regional governments have only a lump-sum profit tax (subsidy) at their disposal, but face exogenous and identical transport costs for imports, then both countries will always...

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Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties

Congleton, Roger D. - 1995

This paper uses a political principal-agent model to analyze the process by which international environmental treaties are negotiated and ratified. To the extent that political principals hire negotiators on the basis of their negotiation skills rather than their policy preferences, negotiators...

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Application of threshold accepting to the evaluation of the discrepancy of a set of points

Winker, Peter; Fang, Kai-Tai - 1995

Efficient routines for multidimensional numerical integration are provided by quasi-Monte Carlo methods. These methods are based on evaluating the integrand at a set of representative points of the integration area. A set may be called representative if it shows a low discrepancy. However, in...

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A game theoretical analysis of household migration decisions in a static and deterministic world

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Seifert-Vogt, Hans G. - 1987

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Asset markets and individual trade policy preferences

Feeney, JoAnne; Hillman, Arye L. - 1995

Protectionist industry interests stem from nondiversified individual income which derives from industry-specific factor ownership. This paper investigates how access to domestic and international asset markets moderates industry-affiliated individuals' preferences for protectionist trade...

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Public goods, international trade, and tax competition

Haufler, Andreas - 1992

The paper sets up an analytical framework within which the arguments for centralized vs. decentralized tax policy can be represented and weighed against each other. Two aspects of the debate are considered: first, the global welfare effects of 'harmonizing' tax reforms are discussed when...

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Multiple uncertainty, forward-futures markets and international trade

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 1995

The optimum behavior of a competitive risk-averse international trader who supplies or demands commodities invoiced in foreign currency is examined when his profits are subject to several forms of risk: production, domestic cost, the exchange rate and the commodity price. The focus of our study...

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Grundlagen der Theorie der Firma: Methodologie der Firma

Frohwein, Torsten - 2014

Zentrales Erklärungsobjekt der Forschung zur Theorie der Firma im strategischen Management ist die Firma. Das … strategische Management kennt nicht die eine Theorie der Firma. Hinter dem gemeinsamen Forschungsziel der Erklärung der Firma steht …-nomologischen Erklärungsschema hat der Pluralismus in der Theorie der Firma seine Ursache in der Verschiedenheit der zu erklärenden Ereignisse …

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