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Social Delay-Tolerant Network Routing
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Routing in mobile delay-tolerant networks faces new challenges such as mobility and the dynamic nature of the network. Social network information may be useful for routing since mobile nodes in...
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Construction by Configuration: Challenges for Software Engineering Research and Practice
January 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The past ten years have seen a radical shift in business application software development. Rather than developing software from scratch using a conventional programming language, the majority of...
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Responsibility Modelling For Contingency Planning
October 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a new approach to analysing and understanding contingency planning based on the notion of responsibility modelling combined with HAZOPS analysis of information requirements....
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A Survey of Wireless Sensor Networks Technology
March 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks were first used in military missions. They are currently deployed in a wide range of civil applications as a sensor is becoming smaller and production costs are smaller....
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An Approach to Extending the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are energy constrained. Every operation, particularly the use of radio, reduces the energy reserves of nodes. The aim of this work is to improve the useful network...
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A Survey of Transmission Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
July 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Firstly developed for military applications, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are currently deployed in a wide range of civil applications. The main drawback is the power constraint as it is...
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The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Addressing the Challenges of Cloud Adoption in Enterprise
March 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promises a radical shift in the provisioning of computing resource within enterprise. This paper describes the challenges that decision-makers face when attempting to determine the...
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Energy Measurement for the Cloud
May 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the aims of cloud-based services is to offer cost savings through elastic service provision. This elasticity refers to use of resources by the customer and the provision of resources by the...
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On Measuring The Efficiency Of Monetary Policy
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cecchetti et al. (2006) develop a method for allocating macroeconomic performance changes among the structure of the economy, variability of supply shocks and monetary policy. The authors propose...
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Enhancing Interns' Aspirations Towards The Labour Market Through Skill-Acquisition: The Second Chance Schools Experience
July 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Second Change School programmes are active in a number of European countries. These schools offer vulnerable young adults an alternative opportunity to enhance their employability skills by...
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Financial Distress In Chinese Industry: Microeconomic, Macroeconomic And Institutional Influences
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors paper the impact of both microeconomic factors and the macroeconomy on the financial distress of Chinese listed companies over a period of massive economic transition, 1995 to 2006....
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Growth And Survival Determinants Of Chinese Private Firms: Fieldwork Evidence And Econometric Estimates
November 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper reports on one of the first empirical attempts to investigate small firm growth and survival, and their determinants, in the Peoples' Republic of China. The work is based on field work...
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Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intangible Assets And Firm Growth: The Impact Of 'Spirit And Material' On The Growth Of Chinese Private Firms
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper has three contributions. First, it shows how field work within small firms in PR Chinese has provided new evidence which enables one to measure and calibrate Entrepreneurial Orientation...
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The Estimation Of Technical Efficiency Effects Models With An Example Applied To The Thai Manufacturing Sector
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper does two things. First, it presents alternative approaches to the standard methods of estimating productive efficiency using a production function. It favours a parametric approach...
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Are Two Tax Rates Better Than One?
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Should two - band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? The authors provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result...
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Social Networks In Determining Migration And Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence From The German Reunification
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of the German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the...
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Strategy Making In Cities: The Role Of Calculative Practices In Manufacturing Competition
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of cities develop corporate strategies. In this paper, the authors problematise the seemingly natural and self-evident link between cities,...
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Finance And Balanced Growth
July 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Uzawa (1961) theorem applied to finance and growth suggests that a long-run positive correlation between financial efficiency and depth is only present when variations in the extent of access...
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Efficiency, Depth And Growth: Quantitative Implications Of Finance And Growth Theory
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a parsimonious finance and endogenous growth model with microeconomic frictions in entrepreneurship and a role for credit constraints. They demonstrate that though an...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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Tcpread: An Aid to Analysing tcpdump Traces
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In order to gather statistics about the traffic on a network it is necessary to have a capture of network traffic. When packet captures are examined connection state can be tracked to extract...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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FloodDrop - SYN Flood Detection and Recovery
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
FloodDrop is a SYN-flood detection and recovery tool. A SYN-flood is a distributed denial of service attack that takes advantage of the TCP protocol and exploits the three-way handshake to fill or...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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Policy, Prediction and Adaptation in a WSN
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
There are many competing protocols available for WSNs' that perform routing, security and physical media access control. Choosing the right one may depend on the environmental surroundings of the...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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Infrastructure Finance And Industrial Takeoff In England
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
That financial matters did not constrain industrial takeoff in the UK is generally accepted in the historical literature; in contrast, contemporary empirical analyses have found evidence that...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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Financial Shocks And The US Business Cycle
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Employing the Financial Accelerator (FA) model of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999) enhanced to include a shock to the FA mechanism, the authors construct and study shocks to the efficiency...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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Macroeconomic Conditions And Business Exit: Determinants Of Failures And Acquisitions Of UK Firms
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the impact of macroeconomic instability on business exit in a world where acquisition and bankruptcy are co-determined. The objective is to discover how the processes that...
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The Evolution Of Financial Institutions From The Seventeenth To The Twenty-First Century
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In one of the more influential papers in economic history of the past twenty years, North and Weingast (1989) described the connections between a singular event, the English Glorious Revolution of...
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Arbitrage And Simple Financial Market Efficiency During The South Sea Bubble: A Comparative Study Of The Royal African And South Sea Companies Subscription Share Issues
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Subscription shares of the early 18th century were early examples of what today would be called innovated securities. Either by intent or happenstance, they served to overcome imperfections in the...
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Single Versus Multiple Prize Contests To Finance Public Goods: Theory And Experimental Evidence
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates single and multiple prize contests as incentive mechanisms for the private provision of public goods, under the assumptions of income heterogeneity and incomplete...
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Practitioner Views On Financial Reporting For Smaller Entities
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper has four purposes. First, to establish the policy background leading to a special Financial Reporting Standard for Small firms (FRSSE), aimed at reducing compliance costs. An indirect...
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Decentralised Orchestration of Service-Oriented Scientific Workflows
February 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Service-oriented workflows in the scientific domain are commonly composed as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), formed from a collection of vertices and directed edges. When orchestrating...
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Unconditionally Optimal Monetary Policy
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a simple and intuitive approach for analytically deriving Unconditionally Optimal (UO) policies, a topic of enduring interest in optimal monetary policy analysis. The approach...
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Monetary Policy And Heterogeneous Expectations
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the implications for monetary policy of heterogeneous expectations in a New Keynesian model. The assumption of rational expectations is replaced with parsimonious forecasting...
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Endogenous Price Flexibility And Optimal Monetary Policy
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Much of the literature on optimal monetary policy uses models in which the degree of nominal price flexibility is exogenous. There are, however, good reasons to suppose that the degree of price...
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Optimal Monetary And Fiscal Policy In An Economy With Non-Ricardian Agents
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze if a rise in private consumption following an exogenous rise in government spending is a feature of the economy under optimal stabilization in a standard New Keynesian setting...
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Simple Monetary-fiscal Targeting Rules
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the characteristics of optimal dynamics in an economy in which neither prices nor wages adjust instantaneously and lump-sum taxes are unavailable as a source of government...
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Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise
April 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of using public IaaS...
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The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Supporting Cloud Adoption Decisions in the Enterprise
June 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promises a radical shift in the provisioning of computing resource within the enterprise. This paper describes the challenges that decision makers face when assessing the...
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Application Level Energy and Performance Measurements in a Wireless LAN
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an experimental evaluation of energy usage and performance in a wireless LAN cell based on a testbed using the 5GHz ISM band for 802.11a and 802.11n. They have taken an...
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A Comparison of Routing for Mobile Networks
December 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless mobile devices are becoming increasingly prevalent in society. As a result, aggregation of network connectivity through the use of mobile networks is becoming increasingly relevant to...
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TCP Testing: How Well Does ns2 Match Reality?
September 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
New transport protocols continue to appear as alternatives to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Many of these are designed to address TCP's inefficiency in operating over paths with a high...
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Cloud Migration: A Case Study of Migrating an Enterprise IT System to IaaS
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper illustrates the potential benefits and risks associated with the migration of an IT system in the oil & gas industry from an in-house data center to Amazon EC2 from a broad variety of...
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Automatic Amortised Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis
November 9, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors' research focuses on formally bounded WCET analysis, where they aim to provide absolute guarantees on execution time bounds. In this paper, they describe how amortisation can be used...
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Context-Based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Location-Based Services (LBSes) are increasing in popularity, but create many privacy concerns for users. LBSes usually rely on the same default privacy settings for all users. In this position...
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Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones
February 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Continuous sensing applications (e.g., mobile social networking applications) are appearing on new sensor-enabled mobile phones such as the Apple iPhone, Nokia and Android phones. These...
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Self-Tuning Network Support for MANETs
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Rapid and unpredictable topology changes and resource constraints make delivering packets in a MANET (Mobile Ad hoc NETwork) a challenging task. Routing information has to be updated to reflect...
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Autonomic Tuning of Routing for MANETs
March 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs), timers have been widely used to maintain routing (state) information. The use of fixed-interval timers is simple to implement but, in practise, may be difficult...
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Exploiting Self-Reported Social Networks for Routing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
August 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile, delay-tolerant, ad hoc and pocket-switched networks may form an important part of future ubiquitous computing environments. Understanding how to efficiently and effectively route...
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Harmonised Resilience, Security and Mobility Capability for IP
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Military communications currently require secure end-to-end, resilient connectivity via multi-homed connections, and need to support both mobile hosts and mobile networks. Today, such functions...
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Mobile Networks: Naming vs.Tunnelling
March 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using data of passenger numbers and train schedules from the London Underground metropolitan railway system, the authors compare a Tunneling-based to a Naming-based approach for supporting mobile...
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Enabling Mobile Networks Through Secure Naming
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Networks are increasingly important in land-, sea and air-based military scenarios. The interest in supporting network mobility for Internet Protocol (IP) networks has led to the NEtwork...
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Site-Controlled Secure Multi-Homing and Traffic Engineering for IP
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Site multi-homing is an important capability in modern military networks. Resilience of a site is greatly enhanced when it has multiple upstream connections to the Global Information Grid,...
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TCP Testing: How Well Does ns2 Match Reality?
September 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
New transport protocols continue to appear as alternatives to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Many of these are designed to address TCP's inefficiency in operating over paths with a high...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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A Comparison of Routing for Mobile Networks
December 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless mobile devices are becoming increasingly prevalent in society. As a result, aggregation of network connectivity through the use of mobile networks is becoming increasingly relevant to...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Application Level Energy and Performance Measurements in a Wireless LAN
May 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an experimental evaluation of energy usage and performance in a wireless LAN cell based on a testbed using the 5GHz ISM band for 802.11a and 802.11n. They have taken an...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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White Papers
The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Supporting Cloud Adoption Decisions in the Enterprise
June 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing promises a radical shift in the provisioning of computing resource within the enterprise. This paper describes the challenges that decision makers face when assessing the...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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White Papers
Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise
April 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of using public IaaS...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Simple Monetary-fiscal Targeting Rules
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the characteristics of optimal dynamics in an economy in which neither prices nor wages adjust instantaneously and lump-sum taxes are unavailable as a source of government...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Optimal Monetary And Fiscal Policy In An Economy With Non-Ricardian Agents
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze if a rise in private consumption following an exogenous rise in government spending is a feature of the economy under optimal stabilization in a standard New Keynesian setting...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Endogenous Price Flexibility And Optimal Monetary Policy
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Much of the literature on optimal monetary policy uses models in which the degree of nominal price flexibility is exogenous. There are, however, good reasons to suppose that the degree of price...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Monetary Policy And Heterogeneous Expectations
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the implications for monetary policy of heterogeneous expectations in a New Keynesian model. The assumption of rational expectations is replaced with parsimonious forecasting...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Unconditionally Optimal Monetary Policy
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a simple and intuitive approach for analytically deriving Unconditionally Optimal (UO) policies, a topic of enduring interest in optimal monetary policy analysis. The approach...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Decentralised Orchestration of Service-Oriented Scientific Workflows
February 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Service-oriented workflows in the scientific domain are commonly composed as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), formed from a collection of vertices and directed edges. When orchestrating...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Practitioner Views On Financial Reporting For Smaller Entities
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper has four purposes. First, to establish the policy background leading to a special Financial Reporting Standard for Small firms (FRSSE), aimed at reducing compliance costs. An indirect...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Single Versus Multiple Prize Contests To Finance Public Goods: Theory And Experimental Evidence
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates single and multiple prize contests as incentive mechanisms for the private provision of public goods, under the assumptions of income heterogeneity and incomplete...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Arbitrage And Simple Financial Market Efficiency During The South Sea Bubble: A Comparative Study Of The Royal African And South Sea Companies Subscription Share Issues
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Subscription shares of the early 18th century were early examples of what today would be called innovated securities. Either by intent or happenstance, they served to overcome imperfections in the...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
The Evolution Of Financial Institutions From The Seventeenth To The Twenty-First Century
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In one of the more influential papers in economic history of the past twenty years, North and Weingast (1989) described the connections between a singular event, the English Glorious Revolution of...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Macroeconomic Conditions And Business Exit: Determinants Of Failures And Acquisitions Of UK Firms
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the impact of macroeconomic instability on business exit in a world where acquisition and bankruptcy are co-determined. The objective is to discover how the processes that...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Financial Shocks And The US Business Cycle
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Employing the Financial Accelerator (FA) model of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999) enhanced to include a shock to the FA mechanism, the authors construct and study shocks to the efficiency...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Infrastructure Finance And Industrial Takeoff In England
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
That financial matters did not constrain industrial takeoff in the UK is generally accepted in the historical literature; in contrast, contemporary empirical analyses have found evidence that...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Policy, Prediction and Adaptation in a WSN
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
There are many competing protocols available for WSNs' that perform routing, security and physical media access control. Choosing the right one may depend on the environmental surroundings of the...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
FloodDrop - SYN Flood Detection and Recovery
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
FloodDrop is a SYN-flood detection and recovery tool. A SYN-flood is a distributed denial of service attack that takes advantage of the TCP protocol and exploits the three-way handshake to fill or...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Tcpread: An Aid to Analysing tcpdump Traces
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In order to gather statistics about the traffic on a network it is necessary to have a capture of network traffic. When packet captures are examined connection state can be tracked to extract...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Efficiency, Depth And Growth: Quantitative Implications Of Finance And Growth Theory
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a parsimonious finance and endogenous growth model with microeconomic frictions in entrepreneurship and a role for credit constraints. They demonstrate that though an...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Finance And Balanced Growth
July 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Uzawa (1961) theorem applied to finance and growth suggests that a long-run positive correlation between financial efficiency and depth is only present when variations in the extent of access...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Strategy Making In Cities: The Role Of Calculative Practices In Manufacturing Competition
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of cities develop corporate strategies. In this paper, the authors problematise the seemingly natural and self-evident link between cities,...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Social Networks In Determining Migration And Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence From The German Reunification
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of the German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Are Two Tax Rates Better Than One?
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Should two - band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? The authors provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
The Estimation Of Technical Efficiency Effects Models With An Example Applied To The Thai Manufacturing Sector
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper does two things. First, it presents alternative approaches to the standard methods of estimating productive efficiency using a production function. It favours a parametric approach...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intangible Assets And Firm Growth: The Impact Of 'Spirit And Material' On The Growth Of Chinese Private Firms
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper has three contributions. First, it shows how field work within small firms in PR Chinese has provided new evidence which enables one to measure and calibrate Entrepreneurial Orientation...
Provided by University of St Andrews
-
White Papers
Growth And Survival Determinants Of Chinese Private Firms: Fieldwork Evidence And Econometric Estimates
November 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper reports on one of the first empirical attempts to investigate small firm growth and survival, and their determinants, in the Peoples' Republic of China. The work is based on field work...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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