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Spatial Proximity and Complementarities in the Trading of Tacit Knowledge

Aydogan, Neslihan; Lyon, Thomas P. - EconWPA - 2004

We model knowledge-trading coalitions in which the transfer of tacit knowledge is unverifiable and requires face-to-face contact, making spatial proximity important. When there are sufficient “complementarities” in knowledge exchange, successful exchange is facilitated if firms can meet in a...

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Value Creation and Profit Optimization

Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

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The Role of R&D Technology in Asymmetric Research Joint Ventures

Dakhlia, Sami; Menezes, Flavio M.; Temimi, Akram - EconWPA - 2005

We characterize asymmetric equilibria in two-stage process innovation games and show that they are prevalent in the different models of R&D technology considered in the literature. Indeed, cooperation in R&D may be accompanied by high concentration in the product market. We show that while such...

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The Statistical Mechanics of Complex Product Development: Empirical and Analytical Results

Braha, Dan; Bar-Yam, Yaneer - EconWPA - 2005

In recent years, understanding the structure and function of complex networks has become the foundation for explaining many different real- world complex biological, technological and informal social phenomena. Techniques from statistical physics have been successfully applied to the analysis of...

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Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance

Bardhan, Pranab; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - EconWPA - 1998

When asymmetry or non-verifiability of information, or non- excludability of users, makes contracts incomplete or unenforceable, and where for these and other reasons there are impediments to efficient bargaining, we show that private contracting will not generally assign the control of assets...

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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2004

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves … some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing …

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International benchmarking of the Australian waterfront

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This study is part of a continuing program of research into the performance of economic infrastructure industries … consequences of failure to match levels of performance achieved overseas. It is based on data collected throughout 1997. …

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Firms' demand for occupational profiles: a theoretical and empirical study

Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2002

This paper aims at analysing, both theoretically and empirically, possible determinants of firm's demand of occupations. Even if traditionally neglected within economics literature, this issue can, in fact, be very useful for Economics, as this paper tries to shows. The theoretical analysis...

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Standards Coalitions Formation and Market Structure in Network Industries

Economides, Nicholas; Skrzypacz, Andrzej - EconWPA - 2004

We discuss the formation of technical standards platforms in industries with network externalities where firms are free to choose their degree of technical compatibility with competitors. In our model, firms choose affiliation to a technical standards coalition in the first stage of a game, and...

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Use of ICTs and the Economic Performance of SMEs in East Africa

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Wolf, Susanna - EconWPA - 2004

performance of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) of three East African countries: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Findings of …

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