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A Business Case Comparison of the IP NGN Carrier Ethernet Design to the Centralized BRAS Design for Triple Play Broadband Access Networks
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Today incumbent service providers are facing serious challenges. Cable companies and other new competitors are entering the telephone business while incumbent telecom service providers are...
Provided by: Network Strategy Partners
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Mandatory Or Voluntary Corporate Disclosure?:Full Disclosure Is Not Always A Moneymaker
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis on the importance of openness and transparency in society. Such sunlight can be a pretty profitable...
Provided by: Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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U.K. Inflation And Relative Prices Over The Last Decade: How Important Was Globalization?
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the IMF's new Global Economy Model (GEM) is used to estimate the relative importance of a number of factors argued to explain the differences in the trends in core inflation and...
Provided by: International Monetary Fund
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Indian Subnational Finances: Recent Performance
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The fiscal performance of the States in India has been an area of concern for quite some time. The Twelfth Finance Commission (TFC) recommended a three-pronged strategy to alleviate States' fiscal...
Provided by: International Monetary Fund
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Global Aging Pressures: Impact Of Fiscal Adjustment, Policy Cooperation, And Structural Reforms
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Demographic pressures will materialize in many economies over the next few decades. The authors examine the macroeconomic impact of alternative fiscal adjustment and structural reform strategies...
Provided by: International Monetary Fund
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Innovation 2007: A BCG Senior Management Survey
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Innovation is a key differentiator - perhaps the key differentiator - in the marketplace, separating winning companies from the also-rans. It takes a wide array of forms, from new-service and...
Provided by: Boston Consulting Group
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery With Virtualization and Double-Take
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
A growing number of enterprises have standardized on virtualization technologies because of the potential benefits provided by server consolidation and server rationalization, which can include...
Provided by: Dell
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Reliable D-Cinema Multicasting Over Heterogeneous Networks
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a packetization strategy for the reliable electronic distribution of Digital Cinema (DCinema, DC) content. In this paper, new experimental results and design improvements are...
Provided by: Academy Publisher
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Hedge Funds, Financial Intermediation, And Systemic Risk
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Hedge funds are significant players in the U.S. capital markets, but differ from other market participants in important ways such as their use of a wide range of complex trading strategies and...
Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Pricing The Option To Surrender In Incomplete Markets
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
New international accounting standards require insurers to reflect the value of embedded options and guarantees in their products. Pricing techniques based on the Black & Scholes paradigm are...
Provided by: University of Palermo
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Reinventing Healthcare Service Through M-Care Business Model: The Strategy Analysis of WiMAX Adoption
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
To address the emerging issues of aging society, new technology creates many opportunities to solve the problem of care service and increases added-value in the digital family. Therefore, this...
Provided by: Academy Publisher
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On the Delay and Throughput Gains of Coding in Unreliable Networks
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In an unreliable packet network setting, the authors study the performance gains of optimal transmission strategies in the presence and absence of coding capability at the transmitter, where...
Provided by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Technological Opportunity, Long-run Growth, And Convergence
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors derive an R&D-based semi-endogenous growth model where technological progress depends on the available amount of technological opportunity. Incremental innovations provide direct...
Provided by: Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Who Is Afraid Of Political Risk? Multinational Firms And Their Choice Of Capital Structure
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how multinational firms choose their capital structure in response to political risk. The authors focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of...
Provided by: University of Munich
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The Global Challenges Of The Knowledge Economy: China And The EU
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses some of the challenges confronting the European Union and China as they build their knowledge economies, and their on-going and possible future actions to address such...
Provided by: United Nations University
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Is Distance Dying At Last? Falling Home Bias In Fixed Effects Models Of Patent Citations
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the home bias of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). They present the...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Investment During The Korean Financial Crisis: A Structural Econometric Analysis
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper uses firm-level panel data to analyze the role of financial factors in determining investment outcomes during the Korean financial crisis. The identification strategy exploits the...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Spatial Growth And Industry Age
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Improved Access To Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity ... For Some Plants
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Trade Costs In The First Wave Of Globalization
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
What drives globalization today and in the past? The authors employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based on a standard model of trade in differentiated goods to address this...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
