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Does The Kyoto Protocol Agreement Matters? An Environmental Efficiency Analysis
May 2011
This paper uses both conditional and unconditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models in order to determine different environmental efficiency levels for a sample of 110 countries in 2007. In...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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In Dubio Pro CES - Supply Estimation With Mis-Specified Technical Change
Apr 2010
Capital-labor substitution and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) estimates are essential features of growth and income distribution models. In the context of a Monte Carlo exercise embodying...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Unit-Root And Stationarity Testing With Empirical Application On Industrial Production Of CEE-4 Countries
Mar 2011
The purpose of this paper is to explain both the need and the procedures of unit-root testing to a wider audience. The topic of stationarity testing in general and unit root testing in particular...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Asymmetric Information, Dynamic Information Production And Initial Public Offerings
Jan 2008
This paper presents an information-theoretic model of IPO pricing in the presence of adverse selection and multiple trading periods. Initially investors produce information to reduce the...
Provided by Colorado State University
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The Effect Of Durable Goods And ICT On Euro Area Productivity Growth?
Sep 2008
The present System of National Accounts (SNA93) treats durable consumption goods as consumption goods rather than investment although rentals for owner occupied households is imputed into GDP. The...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Medium Run Redux: Technical Change, Factor Shares And Frictions In The Euro Area
Jun 2008
The authors develop a framework for analyzing "Medium-run" departures from balanced growth, and apply it to the economies of continental Europe. A time-varying factor-augmenting production...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Evolution And Sources Of Manufacturing Productivity Growth: Evidence From A Panel Of European Countries
Jun 2008
The paper aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Income Distribution Determinants And Public Spending Efficiency
Jan 2008
In this paper the authors examine the impact of public spending, education, and institutions on income distribution in advanced economies. They also assess the efficiency of public spending in...
Provided by European Central Bank
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Productivity Shocks And Real Exchange Rate: A Reappraisal
Apr 2009
The authors reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchange rates using a panel estimation framework that incorporates a large number of countries and importantly, a...
Provided by European Central Bank
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How GPS Fleet Tracking Can Reduce Fuel Costs For Your Business
May 2011
The rise in gas prices is always on the minds of vehicle owners, and has lately even become a weekly obsession and cause for serious concern. According to the US Energy Information Association,...
Provided by FleetMatics
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Trade And Location With Land As A Productive Factor
Sep 2008
This paper is motivated by the fact that, contrary to its importance in practice, the role of land for production has received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography....
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Exclusive Dealing Contract And Inefficient Entry Threat
Sep 2008
This paper examines the effects of exclusive dealing contracts in a simple model with manufacturers-distributors relations. The authors consider entrants in both manufacturing and distribution...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Bank Distress And The Borrowers' Productivity
Oct 2007
In this paper, the authors propose a theoretical model in which a banking crisis (or bank distress) causes declines in the aggregate productivity. When borrowing firms need additional bank loans...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Debt As A Bonding Mechanism: Evidence From The Relations Between Employee Productivity, Capital Structure, And Outside Employment Opportunities
Oct 2007
The authors investigate the disciplining role of debt in the publicly held firm by examining the relation between employee productivity and financial leverage. The unique feature of their paper is...
Provided by Georgia State University
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Efficient Repeated Implementation
Nov 2009
This paper examines repeated implementation of a Social Choice Function (SCF) with infinitely-lived agents whose preferences are determined randomly in each period. An SCF is...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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The Devil Is In The Shadow Do Institutions Affect Income And Productivity Or Only Official Income And Official Productivity?
Dec 2007
This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. The results confirm the usual positive...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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The Productivity Advantages Of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration From Firm Selection
Nov 2010
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two explanations have been offered: agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm...
Provided by IMDEA
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Structural Reform And Firm Profitability In Developing Countries
Jul 2008
The authors extend agency theory to propose that structural reform positively impacts firm profitability in developing countries because the improvements in external monitoring that accompany...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Efficient Development Portfolio Design For Sub Saharan Africa
Aug 2010
The Stiglitz report published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country's development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per...
Provided by United Nations University
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Understanding Multilevel Interactions In Economic Development
Jan 2010
National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative...
Provided by United Nations University
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ICT Externalities: Evidence From Cross Country Data
Nov 2009
This paper reports the findings of an empirical study on the external effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity at an aggregate level. It...
Provided by United Nations University
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Does Management Matter? Evidence From India
Jan 2011
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this the authors ran a management field experiment on...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Anatomy Of A Paradox: Management Practices, Organisational Structure And Energy Efficiency
Dec 2010
This paper presents new evidence on managerial and organizational factors that explain firm level energy efficiency and TFP. The authors interviewed managers of 190 randomly selected manufacturing...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Does Competition Raise Productivity Through Improving Management Quality?
Dec 2010
A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what mechanism? The author discusses recent empirical evidence from both large-scale...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads And Trade
Sep 2010
Much of recent Trade theory focuses on heterogeneity of firms and the differential impact trade policy might have on firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem is that most firm...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Spillovers In Space: Does Geography Matter?
Aug 2010
The authors simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technology and product - market proximity. To do this, they...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Why Is The US So Energy Intensive? Evidence From US Multinationals In The UK
Jan 2010
At present the USA is - in per capita terms - the top greenhouse gas polluter among the world's major economies. This is mirrored by the high energy intensity of all sectors of the US economy...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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The Macroeconomic Role Of Unemployment Compensation
Feb 2009
The standard motivation for unemployment compensation is consumption smoothing and most papers in the literature have analyzed trade-offs involving consumption smoothing and moral hazard. This...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?
Aug 2008
Entry regulations against big-box retailers have been introduced in many countries to protect smaller independent stores. Using a new dataset from the UK, the author shows that in fact these entry...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Productivity And The Sourcing Modes Of Multinational Firms: Evidence From French Firm-level Data
Dec 2007
The authors investigate the role of a firm's total factor productivity in its decision to import from its affiliates rather than from independent input suppliers. They propose a slightly modified...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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The Shimer Puzzle And The Correct Identification Of Productivity Shocks
Aug 2007
Shimer (2005a) claims that the Mortensen-Pissarides search model of unemployment lacks an amplification mechanism because it cannot generate the observed business cycle fluctuations in...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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Trade Liberalization, Outsourcing, And Firm Productivity
Jul 2007
Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel explanation for this finding. The author develops a simple general equilibrium model of...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences Of Works Council Relations
Apr 2011
The author uses a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Irreversibility, Ignorance, And The Intergenerational Equity-efficiency Trade-off
Feb 2011
The authors demonstrate the existence of an intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off in policy-making that aims at Pareto-efficiency across generations and sustainability, i.e. non-decreasing...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Productivity And International Firm Activities: What Do We Know?
Apr 2011
This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what the authors know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along The Productivity Distribution: First Evidence From A Quantile Regression Approach For Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Aug 2010
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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The Economic Consequences Of One-third Codetermination In German Supervisory Boards: First Evidence For The Service Sector From A New Source Of Enterprise Data
Jun 2010
There remains great uncertainty about the economic consequences of co-determination in German supervisory boards. Because employee representation on company boards is mandatory, depending on the...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Baumol's Cost-disease, Efficiency, And Productivity In The Performing Arts: An Analysis Of German Public Theaters
May 2010
This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Productivity Premia For German Manufacturing Firms Exporting To The Euro-area And Beyond: First Evidence From Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
May 2010
This paper makes three contributions. It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Offshoring And Firm Performance: Self-selection, Effects On Performance, Or Both?
Dec 2009
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications: Technology Concepts And Business Considerations
Jan 2010
This white paper focuses on the issues and solutions involved with virtualizing tier-one applications. It begins with a discussion of what sets tier-one applications apart from other...
Provided by EMC
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Microsoft Online Services : Giving Businesses A New Choice For Productivity Tools
Jul 2008
This white paper takes a look at three myths that are used to explain and even justify why over 85% of all organizations still run their own email and other productivity tools software. The...
Provided by IDC
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Firm-Specific Productivity Risk Over The Business Cycle: Facts And Aggregate Implications
Jun 2009
This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in...
Provided by Deutsche Bundesbank
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Business Productivity Assessment For Professional Services
May 2009
Professional services firms such as architecture and engineering firms, marketing agencies and business consultancies face change in a unique and highly complex business environment. Responding to...
Provided by Deltek
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Improve Productivity With BP-VA Business Process Management Make Easy
Sep 2008
Business Process Modeling (BPM) is typically performed by business analysts who are seeking to improve process efficiency. Process oriented organizations break down the barriers of structural...
Provided by Visual Paradigm International
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Testing Mobile Business Applications
Mar 2009
The phenomenal growth of mobile devices has opened up avenues for organizations to integrate them into the mainstream computing environment. Today's mobile applications deliver complex...
Provided by Keane
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Mobile Line-of-Business Applications For The Midsize Business : An ROI Analysis
Jun 2008
Mobile solutions continue to make inroads into companies of all sizes. Once perceived as an ad hoc solution or tool, mobile solutions have become key components of core business processes. The...
Provided by IDC
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Microsoft Office 365 Data Sheet
Nov 2010
The Microsoft Office 365 services offering can help you achieve these results and help meet your needs for robust security, continual reliability, and user productivity. Office 365 brings together...
Provided by Microsoft
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Office 365: The Exchange Implications
Nov 2010
Office 365 in many ways is the first true Microsoft collaboration cloud offering. The current BPOS incarnation is based on the 2007 wave of products - Exchange, Office Communications Server (OCS)...
Provided by Gartner
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Google Apps For The University Of Minnesota
Aug 2010
This paper is to describe the various services associated with Google Apps for the University of Minnesota that are administered by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), and identify related...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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Reinventing The Business Workspace: How Salesforce.com And Google Are Bringing On Demand To The Enterprise
Apr 2008
The business workspace is going on demand. A new, connected way of working is breaking down the old, functional silos of activity that kept workers isolated in their desktop cubicles. Rippling...
Provided by Procullux
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Google Apps For Business - Secure, Reliable Business Applications In The Cloud
Jul 2010
More than two million businesses already use Google Apps for Business - moving to the cloud with secure, reliable workplace tools for email, document production, web publishing, and more. With...
Provided by Google
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Storage Consolidation Helps Small/Midsize Companies Grow
Jul 2008
One of the biggest obstacles to implementing networked storage is the transition: specialized hardware is expensive, system design can be complicated and the installation process can be...
Provided by StorMagic
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Building An Online Backup Business
Aug 2008
For service providers, the online backup services market presents a huge opportunity - but with around 1400 competitors already in the market, the path to success is no sure thing. This paper...
Provided by Atempo
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Business Productivity Online Standard Suite
Oct 2010
The Business Productivity Online Standard Suite Deployment Guide provides the detailed information and guidance your business needs to deploy enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions...
Provided by Microsoft
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Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) White Paper
Dec 2010
As more companies consider deploying mission-critical applications in a virtualized environment or look into deploying private clouds, it will be imperative for them to have complete real-time...
Provided by Virtual Instruments
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Advanced 365 - Managed Email Service: 'Pain Relief For Your Email Environment'
Oct 2010
For more and more organizations today, email is the most widely used application. However, the core environment is often extended to deliver related services such as mobile messaging through...
Provided by Advanced 365
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On The Performance Variability Of Production Cloud Services
Jan 2010
Cloud computing is an emerging commercial infrastructure paradigm that promises to eliminate the need for companies to maintain expensive computing hardware. Through the use of virtualization and...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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Ten Steps To Safeguard Business Data
Oct 2008
Your business has distinct needs that differ from either consumers or larger businesses. Sales and customer service are your main priorities, and while IT functions are important, you may not have...
Provided by i365
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About Advanced 365
Oct 2010
Advanced 365 Solutions utilise the best technology and people to deliver customised application solutions which deliver measurable business value. By utilising mainstream technologies as the core...
Provided by Advanced 365
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Solutions For Migrating To The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite
Jan 2011
Free Discovery and Analysis of Your Notes Applications Notes Migrator for SharePoint enables you to discover Notes databases, classify applications and analyze their usage and complexity. You can...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Protecting Vital Business Interests With A Simplified Storage Solution
Nov 2007
Enterprises that do implement backup and recovery systems end up with a mix of complex and costly storage and network technologies that require a wide range of specialized skills to operate. For...
Provided by Dell
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Business Connection: Helping Organizations Achieve Greater Value Through The Advancement Of Fiber Optic Telecommunications
May 2009
Customer requests have encouraged Dakota Carrier Network to begin providing businesses in North Dakota options for backing up and storing critical data in hardened, secure facilities. According to...
Provided by Dakota Carrier Network
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Digital Storage In Consumer Electronics
Jan 2008
The data storage requirements for consumer devices are increasing. This demand is fueled by the availability of inexpensive digital storage devices, increasing interface and Internet bandwidth as...
Provided by Coughlin Associates
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The Business Case For Cloud Computing Services
Jun 2010
Cloud Computing requires that the provider determine which of the 3 cloud computing models they will adopt into their solution stack, in what priority and time frame they will be adopted, and...
Provided by Ingram Micro
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Intermediate Goods And Business Cycles: Implications For Productivity And Welfare
Nov 2008
This paper presents an aggregate demand-driven model of business cycles that provides a new explanation for the procyclicality of productivity and simultaneously predicts large welfare losses from...
Provided by JSTOR
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Whitepapers
The Benefits Of A Cloud-Based Email Archiving Service
Jun 2010
The need to protect sensitive corporate information contained in emails and their attachments is cited by organizations as among the prime motivations for investing in email archiving...
Provided by Bloor Research
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New Ways To Improve Efficiency, Increase Performance, And Better Manage Your Business
Jul 2009
Improved company performance comes from saving money and ensuring employees spend their time in more productive activities. Many new features in Sage Accpac focus on helping companies become more...
Provided by Sage Group
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Managing Change Effectively With ERP: The Impact On 5 Key Business Functions
Feb 2010
This white paper examines the impact of using disparate systems versus an integrated ERP system on the manufacturing operations. The detailed charts on the following pages document the effect of...
Provided by Infor
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Network Storage And Its Future
Aug 2010
Computing is based on information. Information is the underlying resource on which all computing processes are based. Information is stored on storage media and is accessed by applications...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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Cost Reduction Through Virtualization And Cloud Computing
Jan 2009
Cost reduction is a "Top-of-mind" issue for most business executives in today's turbulent environment. Many organizations are looking to drive costs out of the IT function, and still others are...
Provided by Ernst & Young
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Proposing A Comprehensive Storage Virtualization Architecture With Related Verification For Data Center Application
Sep 2010
A successful IT Company is characterized by its ability to put the right information in front of the right decision-makers at the right time while concerns about security issues. These objectives...
Provided by AICIT
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HP Storageworks Virtualization
Jul 2009
Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure ("Pool"), and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications or other...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard Development Company
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How Can You Realize The Full Benefits Of Virtualization?
Jun 2009
Some enterprises are already reaping the benefits of virtualization. They are ramping up utilization, slashing server counts, consolidating compute locations and controlling power costs. By all...
Provided by Siemens
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Server And Storage Virtualization Solutions And Services: Ensure Business Continuity For Critical Data Applications While Reducing Overall It Costs By More Than Half
Sep 2010
Although virtualization of a company's IT infrastructure can reduce IT costs and increase overall efficiency of existing assets most companies still have only virtualized a small portion of their...
Provided by Tempest Networking
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Advanced Network Storage Readynas 1500
Dec 2010
Reliability means protecting business-critical data. With the 1500, users can implement a disk backup solution for workstations and servers data protection by using the integrated backup manager,...
Provided by NETGEAR
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Acxiom Infrastructure Cloud Services
Jun 2010
Acxiom's Utility Data Protection (UDP) service is an on-demand platform built to provide you with a cost-effective backup and recovery solution for optimizing protection of your corporate data....
Provided by Acxiom
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Making The Business Case For Automated Tiered Data
Mar 2010
Businesses are dealing with a tidal wave of data growth and they need to manage that growth strategically or run the risk of drowning in data. While the price of storage has gone down through the...
Provided by BlueArc
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The Future Of Business-Critical Networking
Jan 2010
Communications networks are the backbone of business operations, and management teams - in particular the CIO and CFO - have a direct and vested interest in the successful operation of the...
Provided by Cavalier Telephone
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Efficient Integrity Checking Of Untrusted Network Storage
Oct 2008
The authors propose an architecture for verifying the integrity of untrusted outsourced storage. For the method to work, no trust is needed at either the storage server or the authentication...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
Understanding Multilevel Interactions In Economic Development
Jan 2010
National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
ICT Externalities: Evidence From Cross Country Data
Nov 2009
This paper reports the findings of an empirical study on the external effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity at an aggregate level. It...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
Does Management Matter? Evidence From India
Jan 2011
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this the authors ran a management field experiment on...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Anatomy Of A Paradox: Management Practices, Organisational Structure And Energy Efficiency
Dec 2010
This paper presents new evidence on managerial and organizational factors that explain firm level energy efficiency and TFP. The authors interviewed managers of 190 randomly selected manufacturing...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Does Competition Raise Productivity Through Improving Management Quality?
Dec 2010
A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what mechanism? The author discusses recent empirical evidence from both large-scale...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads And Trade
Sep 2010
Much of recent Trade theory focuses on heterogeneity of firms and the differential impact trade policy might have on firms with different levels of productivity. A common problem is that most firm...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Spillovers In Space: Does Geography Matter?
Aug 2010
The authors simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three sources of research and development spillovers: geographic, technology and product - market proximity. To do this, they...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Why Is The US So Energy Intensive? Evidence From US Multinationals In The UK
Jan 2010
At present the USA is - in per capita terms - the top greenhouse gas polluter among the world's major economies. This is mirrored by the high energy intensity of all sectors of the US economy...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
The Macroeconomic Role Of Unemployment Compensation
Feb 2009
The standard motivation for unemployment compensation is consumption smoothing and most papers in the literature have analyzed trade-offs involving consumption smoothing and moral hazard. This...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?
Aug 2008
Entry regulations against big-box retailers have been introduced in many countries to protect smaller independent stores. Using a new dataset from the UK, the author shows that in fact these entry...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Productivity And The Sourcing Modes Of Multinational Firms: Evidence From French Firm-level Data
Dec 2007
The authors investigate the role of a firm's total factor productivity in its decision to import from its affiliates rather than from independent input suppliers. They propose a slightly modified...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
The Shimer Puzzle And The Correct Identification Of Productivity Shocks
Aug 2007
Shimer (2005a) claims that the Mortensen-Pissarides search model of unemployment lacks an amplification mechanism because it cannot generate the observed business cycle fluctuations in...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Trade Liberalization, Outsourcing, And Firm Productivity
Jul 2007
Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel explanation for this finding. The author develops a simple general equilibrium model of...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
-
White Papers
The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences Of Works Council Relations
Apr 2011
The author uses a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
-
White Papers
Irreversibility, Ignorance, And The Intergenerational Equity-efficiency Trade-off
Feb 2011
The authors demonstrate the existence of an intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off in policy-making that aims at Pareto-efficiency across generations and sustainability, i.e. non-decreasing...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
-
White Papers
Productivity And International Firm Activities: What Do We Know?
Apr 2011
This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what the authors know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
The Exporter Productivity Premium Along The Productivity Distribution: First Evidence From A Quantile Regression Approach For Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Aug 2010
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
The Economic Consequences Of One-third Codetermination In German Supervisory Boards: First Evidence For The Service Sector From A New Source Of Enterprise Data
Jun 2010
There remains great uncertainty about the economic consequences of co-determination in German supervisory boards. Because employee representation on company boards is mandatory, depending on the...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
Baumol's Cost-disease, Efficiency, And Productivity In The Performing Arts: An Analysis Of German Public Theaters
May 2010
This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
Productivity Premia For German Manufacturing Firms Exporting To The Euro-area And Beyond: First Evidence From Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
May 2010
This paper makes three contributions. It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
Offshoring And Firm Performance: Self-selection, Effects On Performance, Or Both?
Dec 2009
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
What Is Sustainability Economics?
Sep 2009
While economists have been contributing to the discussion of various aspects of sustainability for decades, it is just recently that the term "Sustainability economics" was used explicitly in the...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
One-third Codetermination At Company Supervisory Boards And Firm Performance In German Manufacturing Industries: First Direct Evidence From A New Type Of Enterprise Data
Aug 2009
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination - firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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The Efficiency Of German Public Theaters: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach
Jul 2009
In recent years the economic performance of public non-profit sectors such as cultural services has become an interesting economic issue. This is due to the high dependence of cultural...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Product Differentiation And Profitability In German Manufacturing Firms
Jan 2009
The authors use a unique rich newly built data set for German manufacturing enterprises to investigate the product differentiation - firm performance relationship. They find that an increase in...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
Firm Dynamics And Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence From Mexico´s Manufacturing Sector
Jun 2010
In this paper, the authors study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of the Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. They argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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Exploring The Relationship Between R&D And Productivity: A Country-level Study
Jun 2008
Research and Development (R&D) has been considered a source of growth in productivity starting from Schultz (1953). Since then, significant research has studied this relationship at the firm,...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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Is Ownership Structure A Determinant Of Bank Efficiency?
Jan 2008
When owners could easily sell a company if it is not performing well enough provide additional incentive to the administration to act in the best interest of the stockholders, since in the merger...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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The Role Of Interest Rates And Productivity Shocks In Emerging Market Fluctuations
Jan 2008
In this paper, the authors use a quantitative model to explore the potential frictions that distinguish emerging market business cycles from developed small open economies. Following Aguiar and...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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Globalization, Structural Change And Productivity Growth
Jun 2011
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, the authors document these gaps, and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Confidence And The Transmission Of Government Spending Shocks
May 2011
There seems to be a widespread belief among economists, policy-makers, and members of the media that the "Confidence" of households and businesses is a critical component in the transmission of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Incentives And The Effects Of Publication Lags On Life Cycle Research Productivity In Economics
May 2011
The authors investigate how increases in publication delays have affected the life-cycle of publications of recent Ph.D. graduates in economics. They construct a panel dataset of 14,271...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Intermediate Goods, Institutions And Output Per Worker
Jun 2007
This paper tests a specific channel through which institutions affect output per capita: the role of institutions in firm-level division of production. The authors argue that weaker institutions...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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Productivity, Energy Prices, And The Great Moderation: A New Link
Mar 2008
The authors study how Total Factor Productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First they estimate a joint stochastic process for the energy price and TFP and establish...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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The Pragmatist's Guide To Comparative Effectiveness Research
Apr 2011
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private budgets. Adopting any treatment that improves health...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Webcasts
Free Webinar - eClosing: Selling Smarter with eSignatures
Jul 2008
Worry Less. Close More. In the time it takes to read an email, you could get a contract signed -- legally, easily and instantly. In this free webinar, you'll learn how it's possible, and how to...
Provided by EchoSign
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Tools & Templates
Company Property Receipt
Sep 2007
Use this template to track company property checked out to employees. This template is intended to be used on paper, though it can also be used electronically.
Provided by JaxWorks
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Efficiency Wages, Financial Market Integration, And The Fiscal Multiplier
Feb 2007
The authors have used a "New-open-economy macroeconomics" model featuring a labor-market friction in the form of efficiency wages to analyze the implication of financial market integration for the...
Provided by Saarland University
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Webcasts
Greener By Design 2009: Packaging Outside The Box
Jun 2009
For some products, packaging represents a significant portion of its impact. A great many products are overpackaged, or contain materials that are unrecyclable. Others use petro-based plastics...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
One Great Idea: Transforming An Industry Without Pulling Teeth - Ina Pockrass
Feb 2011
How one woman's passion to transform an entrenched industry has brought together patients, practitioners and products purveyors to make dentistry's future green? And why this is something we can...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
