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Productive Complements : Too Often Neglected in the Principles Course?

Galles, Gary M.; Graves, Philip E.; Sexton, Robert L. - 2013

Many great economic thinkers, including Alfred Marshall and William Stanley Jevons discussed the importance of joint production, or productive complements, and there are important applications. Yet many students today could complete an economics major and never be introduced to this important...

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Explaining Clustering in Social Networks : Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Cascading Benefits

Levine, Sheen S.; Kurzban, Robert - 2007

Individual and organizational actors enter into a large number of relationships that include benefiting others without ensuring the equality of reciprocal benefits. We suggest that actors have evolved mechanisms that guide them in the choice of exchange partners, even without conscious...

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'Don't Fear the Reaper' : Why Transferable Assets and Avoidable Costs Should Not Resurrect Predatory Pricing

Close, David Perry - 2003

Average Variable Cost Test. Baumol argues that avoidable costs (i.e., the costs that a firm can avoid by choosing not to … predate) represent the most economically accurate costs to include in the below-cost pricing analysis. In combination with the … extremely large avoidable costs. If courts choose to utilize the proposed avoidable cost approach in cases where these …

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Partnership and trust in gift-exchange games.

Chalvignac, Benoît - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2013

In this paper we extend the gift-exchange game setting to include a new experimental treatment where subjects are paired with the same partner for the whole game. We observe that the matching mode is more critical to cooperation levels than the contractual arrangement, and that trust-based...

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Post-keynesian micro theory on business enterprise and the veblenian´s aproach: ¿are there commonalities?

Corrales, Jairo Parada - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL CARIBE (2008)

The main objective of this paper is to explore the possible common grounds, divergences and complementarities between the Veblenian´s approach on the Theory of Business Enterprise followed by Institutional economists, and the modern Post Keynesian Micro theory on Business enterprise. Due to the...

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Post-Keynesian Theory of Business Enterprise and the Veblenian´s Approach: Are there commonalities?

Parada, Jairo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The main objective of this paper is to explore the possible common grounds, divergences and complementarities between the Veblenian’s approach on the Theory of Business Enterprise followed by Institutional economists, and the modern Post Keynesian Micro theory on Business enterprise. Due to...

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A Study on Growth and Financial Efficiency of Selected Sugar Companies in India

Chellaswamy, P.; Revathi, S.V. - In: Journal of Global Economy 5 (2009) 3, pp. 239-249

Sugar industry is the largest agro-based industry located in the rural India. About 45 million sugarcane farmers, their dependents and a large mass of agricultural labours are involved in sugarcane cultivation, harvesting and ancillary activities, and constituting 7.5 per cent of the rural...

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SUSTAINING COMPETITIVENESS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY: INSIGHTS OFFERED BY TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS FOR THE U.S.

Mutsune, Tony - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 3 (2010) 2, pp. 53-64

Determination and implementation of effective policies that enhance and sustain U.S. competitiveness internationally requires a clear understanding of the concept of competitiveness as it relates to a nation. This paper addresses the ambiguity that surrounds the notion of nations competing, and...

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Management practices and productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016

Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...

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Management practices and productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016

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