Essays on outsourcing, technological adoption and unemployment

... or reduction in the optimal level of employment amongst the firms Hence, we have this non-monotonic relationship between unemployment and technology adoption and also unemployment and human capital ... presentation I conducted and the summer meeting of the North American Economics and Finance Association held at the 80th Western Economics Association conference I would also li...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:28

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:30

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:42

... graduated with a M.Sc in Economics in August 2004 iv DISSERTATION ABSTRACT THREE ESSAYS ON REAL ESTATE, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND URBAN ECONOMICS USING THE HEDONIC PRICE MODEL TECHNIQUE Andres Jauregui Doctor ... Stephen L McFarland Acting Dean Graduate School THREE ESSAYS ON REAL ESTATE, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND URBAN ECONOMICS USING THE HEDONIC PR...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:21

... credit growth and banking structure of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) The first essay studies the importance of bank ownership on this growth, the second explores the influence of ... Credit Growth in Central and Eastern European Countries, studies the importance of bank ownership structure for the growth of cr...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2014, 14:20

... Contributions Monitoring vs Output Monitoring Weak Dominance of Contributions Monitoring We are going to propose a feasible contributions monitoring contract that weakly dominates the output monitoring ... contributions monitoring Strict Dominance of Contributions Monitoring Before showing strict dominance of contributions monitoring, let us note a property of the output monit...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:19

... Results 10 6 2.6 Discussion 11 3 2.7 EGARCH-in-Mean Forecasting Model 11 8 2.8 Concluding Remarks 12 7 References 12 8 Essay 3: Fiscal Impacts of Population Ageing in Singapore 13 9 3 .1 Introduction 13 9 ... Models 16 1. 5 Multivariate Conditional Volatility Models 30 1. 6 Lee-Carter Model with Time-Varying Correlations 41 1.7 Estimation Results of LC-VC-GARCH Model 43 1. 8...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

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Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

... the exploration vs exploitation construct to define innovation strategy—explorative innovation strategy vs exploitative innovation strategy, and test how exploration and exploitation can jointly ... firm-level innovation survey data, this research examines several important facets of innovation, including innovation strategy, innovation in services, innovation networks,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... ONE INTRODUCTION This chapter introduces the research questions investigated in the three essays of the dissertation, then summarizes the findings and contributions of each essay MOTIVATION AND ... alliances and (2) university alliances, based on the institutional regime, and then investigates their interdependency The next section elaborates on the research mode...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:07

... business and consumer uptake and continuance as well 1.2 Definition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) The acronym ICT is used to denote a concept which is a combination of two ... development and spread of information and communication technology (ICT) in the 1990s contributed to advancing industries and improving economic productivity of the countrie...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... Berkeley May 2000 Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds Copyright May 2000 by Kehong Wen Abstract Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds by Kehong Wen Doctor of Philosophy ... by the coe¢cients a and b: The magnitude of ´ measures the degree of erosion of old knowledge Remark This assumption and the assumpt...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... from the Light Symposium, a conference on photography co-sponsored by the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador The efforts of many members of these ... The Performance of Reading: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literature James R Hamilton The Art of Theater Scott Walden, ed Photography and Philosophy: Es...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:22

... Body Cultures Essays on Sport Space and Identity Eichberg, Henning Body cultures: essays on sport, space, and identity London; NY: Routledge, 1997 176p * Author: ... fortius These are non-sportised forms of body discipline arising through physical education and sport for all’, on the one hand, and the less constrained and freer bodily configurations ach...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20