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HR Field Guide: 5 Tips To Effective Performance Management
Nov 2010
Performance management systems enable organizations to automate and optimize their performance processes and align employee development and goals with corporate objectives. This field guide will...
Provided by SumTotal Systems
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Program Execution
Jan 2011
Execution is the key to delivering tangible business results from any transformation program. CastlePointe's suite of services will help one to develop the vision, structure and launch one's...
Provided by CastlePointe
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Energy Efficiency
Jan 2011
Climate change is one of the most important reasons why we need to be more efficient with our energy use and reduce our impact on the environment. By making simple changes in our behavior such as...
Provided by Green House Project
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Is Web Service Technology a Good Fit For My Organization?
Jan 2011
What can Web Services do for my business? Unfortunately, there is no complete correct answer to this question. Though the growth and adoption of Web Services in business hinges upon the...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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Getting More From Server Virtualization Building An Adaptive Computing Infrastructure With Virtualization And ZXTM
Jan 2011
An Adaptive Computing design uses virtualization, monitoring and traffic management together to build a new environment for the applications - an environment that works with the applications to...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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Some Neglected Axioms In Fair Division
Apr 2008
Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their entitlements if they receive nothing else....
Provided by Harvard Business School
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The Dynamic Interplay Of Inequality And Trust - An Experimental Study
Oct 2007
The authors study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. They find that...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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Techniques For Facilitating Effective e- Collaboration Meetings
Aug 2010
As e-Collaboration becomes pervasive all are learning more about the human aspects of using technology to work in groups. This paper provides ideas and proven techniques for making your meetings...
Provided by Grouputer
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Monitoring Energy Efficiency In W.A.G.E.S/Utilities For Reducing Cost
Apr 2009
Many companies still only measure natural gas and electricity only at the custody transfer point. Using these few measurements, however, important parameters like specific energy consumptions are...
Provided by Plant Services
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The Task And Temporal Microstructure Of Productivity: Evidence From Japanese Financial Services
Jul 2010
Sustaining workers' productivity is critical to organizations' operational success. Yet, comparatively little attention has been given to how managers can effectively allocate work across tasks...
Provided by Harvard University
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The Painfully Slow Emergence Of Green Energy
Nov 2010
Green, or renewable, energy sources - biothermal, solar, wind, and others - are emerging, but too slowly to, as yet, make a noticeable impact on U.S. energy use. And therein lies a major problem...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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Optimizing Manufacturing Performance With The Rugged DS3400 Series Scanners
Sep 2007
As manufacturers look for new ways to cut costs without cutting quality, their attention has become focused on inventory control. New two-dimensional (2D) bar codes and direct part marking...
Provided by Motorola
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Transforming Field Service Operations: Drive Costs Down And Service Levels Up With Mobility
Oct 2007
The impact of the field service function can be felt throughout the business. When field service organizations operate at less than maximum effectiveness, many areas of the business are impacted -...
Provided by Motorola
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Justifying Web Content Management: The Business Case And ROI
Apr 2009
In today's harsh economic environment, many customers are lending a more critical eye to justifying an investment in Web Content Management (WCM). One of the most scrutinized considerations in...
Provided by Gilbane Group
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The Most Important Tool Of The 21st Century
Sep 2010
These CEOs and many other mid-market leaders are embracing the Toyota Production System referred to as LEAN. Often misunderstood as a tool exclusively for manufacturers, Toyota's methodology for...
Provided by Gazelles
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How Informal Learning Is Transforming The Workplace:
Jan 2011
Over 70% of what we learn in life and at work is learned informally and socially say proponents of informal learning. Language is first learned not in a classroom but in the informal setting of...
Provided by CARA Group
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What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You: A Laboratory Analysis Of Betrayal Aversion
Sep 2008
Trust promotes economic growth and development, and previous research has shed much light on reciprocity and other motives for trusting decisions. Why people choose not to trust has received...
Provided by George Mason University
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Axiomatic Bargaining On Economic Environments With Lotteries
Oct 2009
Most contributions in axiomatic bargaining are phrased in the space of utilities. This comes in sharp contrast with standards in most other branches of economic theory. The present paper shows how...
Provided by Brown University
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Case Studies
Endeavour Corporation Lessens Growing Pains With Microsoft Dynamics AX
Apr 2010
Customer Profile Endeavour International Corporation is an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of energy reserves in the North...
Provided by ePartners
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The Pareto-Stability Concept Is A Natural Solution Concept For Discrete Matching Markets With Indifferences
Aug 2008
In a decentralized setting the game-theoretical predictions are that only strong blockings are allowed to rupture the structure of a matching. This paper argues that, under indifferences, also...
Provided by Brown University
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Comparative Vigilance
Jun 2008
A growing body of literature suggests that courts and juries are inclined toward division of liability between two strictly non-negligent or "Vigilant" parties. However, standard models of...
Provided by University of Delhi
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Case Studies
AmberPoint Turns To InetSoft For Embedded Performance Reporting Solution
May 2009
Summary AmberPoint provides the world's most widely distributed and implemented solutions for governing and managing composite applications. The company's customers are enterprises, government...
Provided by InetSoft Technology
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Cooperative Games: Core And Shapley Value
Jul 2007
This paper describes the basic elements of the cooperative approach to game theory, one of the two counterparts of the discipline. After the presentation of some basic definitions, the focus will...
Provided by Brown University
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The World Distribution Of Productivity: Country TFP Choice In A Nelson-Phelps Economy
Sep 2010
This paper builds a theory of the distribution of TFP across countries. The theory is based on the hypothesis that TFP improvements in a given country follow a Nelson-Phelps specification: they...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Unemployment And Productivity In The Long Run: The Role Of Macroeconomic Volatility
Sep 2010
The authors propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Public Monopoly And Economic Efficiency: Evidence From The Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Aug 2010
While private monopolists are generally assumed to maximize profits, the goals of public enterprises are less well known. They estimate a spatial model of demand for liquor that allows calculating...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Bridging The Skills Gap: New Factors Compound The Growing Skills Shortage
Jan 2010
This paper defines a skills gap as a significant gap between an organization's current capabilities and the skills it needs to achieve its goals. It is the point at which an organization can no...
Provided by American Society for Training & Development
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Trade Policy And Efficiency With Monopolistic Competition
Feb 2010
A comparative advantages model with monopolistic competition is developed to empirically examine the efficiency of protectionism. Based on Brazil's experience, the foreign economy is specified as...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Productivity In The Service Sector: A Service Classification Scheme For Productivity Measurement
Jul 2009
The problem of service productivity discussed in the paper focuses on productivity measurement issues. The aim of the paper is to elaborate criteria for the grouping of services as the reasoning...
Provided by Vilnius University
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Inference For Parameters Defined By Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure
Sep 2008
This paper is concerned with tests and confidence intervals for partially-identified parameters that are defined by moment inequalities and equalities. In the literature, different test...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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Moral Hazard And Efficiency in General Equilibrium With Anonymous Trading
Apr 2010
A "Folk theorem" originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibrium are always or "Generically" inefficient. This paper critically reevaluates these claims...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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Skills, Tasks And Technologies: Implications For Employment And Earnings
Jun 2010
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what the authors refer to as the canonical...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Effects Of The Internationalisation Of Firms On Innovation And Productivity
Dec 2010
This paper examines the effects of the internationalisation of firms via foreign direct investment and trade on their innovation and productivity performance. This econometric results suggest that...
Provided by Economic and Social Research Institute
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Measuring The Cost Of International Trade In Services
Oct 2010
The authors present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments and cross-border trade, they find that...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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Comparative Advantage And Within-industry Firms Performance
Dec 2010
Guided by empirical evidence the authors consider firms heterogeneity in terms of factor intensity. They show that Heckscher-Ohlin comparative advantage and firm-level relative factor-intensity...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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Heterogeneous Firms Or Heterogeneous Workers?
Jun 2010
The authors expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced out, and labor is reallocated towards the best performing firms. But...
Provided by University of Oslo
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Eight Essential Steps: Moving The Contact Center Beyond Operational Efficiency To Business Effectiveness
Jul 2010
For years, the goal of the contact center has been to operate efficiently, keeping costs as low as possible. During the recent economic downturn, cost reduction became even more crucial, and most...
Provided by Aspect Software
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Framing, Motivated Reasoning, And Opinions About Emergent Technologies
Mar 2009
The authors address these questions by incorporating two critical dynamics, typically ignored in extant work: competition between information and over-time processes. They present results from...
Provided by Northwestern University
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Imperfect Competition And Efficiency In Lemons Markets
Aug 2010
This paper studies the impact of competition on the degree of inefficiency in lemons markets. More precisely, the authors characterize the second-best mechanism (i.e., the optimal mechanism with...
Provided by University of Warwick
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On The Theory Of A Firm: The Case Of By-Production Of Emissions
May 2010
Five attributes of emission generating technologies are identified and a concept of by production is introduced, which implies these five attributes. Murty and Russell [2010] characterization of...
Provided by University of Warwick
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The Estimation Of Technical Efficiency Effects Models With An Example Applied To The Thai Manufacturing Sector
May 2009
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
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R&D Subsidies, Spillovers And Privatization In Mixed Markets
Oct 2010
The authors examine the use of subsidies to R&D in a mixed and a private duopoly market. They show that the socially optimal R&D subsidy is increasing in the degree of spillovers but it is lower...
Provided by University of Surrey
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On Measuring The Efficiency Of Monetary Policy
Jan 2011
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...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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Business Process Efficiency: Honing A Competitive Edge
Nov 2008
In today's hypercompetitive market, financial services companies must learn how to produce services faster, cheaper, and better and improve profit margins in the face of mounting competition and...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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Personal Productivity And Organizational Efficiency Whitepaper
Mar 2009
Millions of people use office productivity tools. In spite of automated systems, lot of work still involves manual handling of spreadsheets, presentations and documents. Although most work is...
Provided by MaxOffice Services
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Computational Inefficiency Of Nonparametric Tests For Consistency Of Data With Household Consumption
Nov 2007
Recently Cherchye et al. (2007a) provided a nonparametric characterization of a general collective model for household consumption which includes externalities and public consumption. This...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Decline In Italian Productivity: A Study In Estimation Of Total Factor Productivity With Panel Cointegration Methods
Nov 2007
The aim of this paper is to propose a method for obtaining estimates of long-run Total Factor Productivity (TFP) trends free from the restrictive assumptions needed by traditional growth...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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A Brief History Of Production Functions
Nov 2007
Production function has been used as an important tool of economic analysis in the neoclassical tradition. It is generally believed that Philip Wicksteed (1894) was the first economist to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Market Structure, Productivity And Scale In European Business Services
Dec 2007
Labour productivity in business-services industry tends to lag behind the rest of the economy. The present paper investigates whether or not labour productivity in European business services is...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Relationship Between Risk, Capital And Efficiency: Evidence From Japanese Cooperative Banks
Nov 2009
The risk-capital positions of Japanese banks have been under tension throughout the 1990s. However, existing theory on the determinants of bank risk-taking still remains limited and the evidence...
Provided by University of Reading
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Case Studies
Outsourcing Production Support For A Trade Rules Application
Jan 2008
When capital markets firms want to lower IT costs, often the first place to start is application management and production support. Managing and maintaining financial systems requires rigid...
Provided by Capgemini
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A Simple Accounting Framework For The Effect Of Resource Misallocation On Aggregate Productivity
Nov 2008
This paper develops a simple accounting framework that measures the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate productivity. This framework is based on a multi-sector general equilibrium model...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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ICT In Czech Companies: Business Efficiency Potentials To Be Achieved
Nov 2008
During the last years, particularly after the Czech Republic joined European Union new opportunities and challenges for Czech companies appeared. The level of collaboration and co-operation in...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Total Factor Productivity Growth When Factors Of Production Generate Environmental Externalities
Aug 2008
Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) has been traditionally associated with technological change. The authors show that when a factor of production, such as energy, generates an environmental...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Fees And The Efficiency Of Tradable Permit Systems: An Experimental Approach
Mar 2009
The paper presents the results of an economic experiment in which the effects of fees on allocative efficiency of tradable utilization permits (e.g. pollution permits) are explored. Laboratory...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Spain And Italy: Catching Up And Falling Behind. Two Different Tales Of Productivity Slowdown
Jun 2009
The paper presents a first set of results for Spain and Italy using the EUKLEMS database. It emphasizes the different paths followed by the two countries over the last thirty five years, even...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Productivity, Quality And Exporting Behavior Under Minimum Quality Constraints
Jul 2010
The authors develop a model of international trade with two sources of firm heterogeneity: "Productivity" and "Caliber". Productivity is modeled as is standard in the literature. Caliber is the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Trade And Sectoral Productivity
Jan 2008
Even though differences in sectoral total factor productivity are at the heart of Ricardian trade theory and many models of growth and development, very little is known about their size and their...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Aggregate Productivity Loss And The Theil Index Of Inequality
Mar 2008
This paper suggests that the difference in the Theil indices of inequality between two economies approximately measures the relative loss of aggregate productivity caused by distortions in labor...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Conversion Efficiency As A Complementing Measure Of Welfare In Capability Space
Mar 2008
In the capability literature, studies on the empirical measurement in the functionings space are abundant and a few studies even measure capability to function. The authors suggest adopting a...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Explaining The Size Distribution Of Cities: X-treme Economies
Mar 2008
The methodology used by theories to explain the size distribution of cities takes an empirical fact and works backward to first obtain a reduced form of a model, then pushes this reduced form back...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Productivity Differences In An Interdependent World
Mar 2008
This paper studies cross country differences in productivity from an open economy perspective by using a Helpman-Krugman-Heckscher-Ohlin model. This allows to combine tools from development...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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An Alternative Sense Of Asymptotic Efficiency
Mar 2008
The paper studies the asymptotic efficiency and robustness of hypothesis tests when models of interest are defined in terms of a weak convergence property. The null and local alternatives induce...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Inventive Productivity And Patent Quality: Evidence From Italian Inventors
Mar 2008
By considering a regional sample of Italian inventors, this paper explores the factors behind the different individual performances in terms of number and quality of patents. The reference...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Governance Of Bulgarian Farming
Mar 2008
This paper employs New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics to analyze Bulgarian agriculture. It evaluates the efficiency of dominant governing forms on the eve of EU accession, and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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ICT Penetration And Aggregate Production Efficiency: Empirical Evidence For A Cross-Section Of Fifty Countries
Mar 2008
This paper investigates the impact of telecommunications penetration on the aggregate production efficiency in a large cross-section of fifty countries. The authors show that higher levels of ICT...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Driving Force Of Labor Productivity
Jun 2008
Labor productivity in developed countries is analyzed and modeled. Modeling is based on the previous finding that the rate of labor force participation is a unique function of GDP per capita....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Does The Firm Size Matter? An Empirical Enquiry Into The Performance Of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Jan 2009
The Law of Proportionate Effect depicts that firm's growth rate is independent of its size; Gibrat (1931). Some of the existing studies support the Gibrat's Law: Hymer and Pashigian (1962),...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Endogenous Firm And Information Rent Under Demand Uncertainty
Feb 2009
Increasing evidence shows that ICT investment improves firm performance. Among the many explanations on why ICT contributed to labor productivity surge since 1990, this is the most promising one....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Joint Estimation Of Bank-level Market Power And Efficiency
Mar 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide a methodology for the joint estimation of efficiency and market power of individual banks. The proposed method utilizes the separate implications of the new...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Efficient Estimation Of An Additive Quantile Regression Model
Mar 2009
In this paper two kernel-based nonparametric estimators are proposed for estimating the components of an additive quantile regression model. The first estimator is a computationally convenient...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Modelling And Predicting Labor Force Productivity
May 2009
Labor productivity in Turkey, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, and New Zealand has been analyzed and modeled. These counties extend the previously analyzed set of the US, UK, Japan, France,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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An Efficiency Wage - Imperfect Information Model Of The Aggregate Supply Curve
May 2009
This paper derives a reduced-form equation for the aggregate supply curve from a model in which firms pay efficiency wages and workers have imperfect information about average wages at other...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Firm Entry, Product Repositioning And Welfare
May 2009
The authors show that the entry of a second firm in a horizontally differentiated market (ala Hotelling) may harm consumers as prices increase and consumer's surplus possibly decrease. They first...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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A Theory Of Total Factor Productivity And The Convergence Hypothesis: Workers' Innovations As An Essential Element
Jun 2009
A theory of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is needed to explain why substantial differences in international income have been observed. This paper presents a theory of TFP that incorporates...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Energy Efficiency In Europe: Trends, Convergence And Policy Effectiveness
Jun 2009
This paper analyses energy efficiency in the EU, both in terms of reductions in energy intensity and in terms of physical indicators, looking at the differences among sectors and among Member...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Lean Manufacturing: Part 2
Jul 2009
This white paper takes through the action stages of lean practices: implementing lean. This involves looking in depth at the 5 S's of lean, key elements to succeeding at lean, and the top reasons...
Provided by ProcessPro
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Lean Manufacturing: Part 1
Jul 2009
This white paper breaks down the definition of Lean Manufacturing into easy-to-digest concepts and shares the real-life example of a subject company working towards the goal of lean. The purpose...
Provided by ProcessPro
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Can Second-Generation Endogenous Growth Models Explain The Productivity Trends And Knowledge Production In The Asian Miracle Economies?
Sep 2009
Using data for six Asian miracle economies over the period from 1953 to 2006, this paper examines the extent to which growth has been driven by R&D and tests which second-generation endogenous...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Market Power And Efficiency In A Search Model
Sep 2009
The authors build a theoretical model to study the welfare effects and resulting policy implications of firms' market power in a frictional labor market. The environment has two main...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
The Pareto-Stability Concept Is A Natural Solution Concept For Discrete Matching Markets With Indifferences
Aug 2008
In a decentralized setting the game-theoretical predictions are that only strong blockings are allowed to rupture the structure of a matching. This paper argues that, under indifferences, also...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
Comparative Vigilance
Jun 2008
A growing body of literature suggests that courts and juries are inclined toward division of liability between two strictly non-negligent or "Vigilant" parties. However, standard models of...
Provided by University of Delhi
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Case Studies
AmberPoint Turns To InetSoft For Embedded Performance Reporting Solution
May 2009
Summary AmberPoint provides the world's most widely distributed and implemented solutions for governing and managing composite applications. The company's customers are enterprises, government...
Provided by InetSoft Technology
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Cooperative Games: Core And Shapley Value
Jul 2007
This paper describes the basic elements of the cooperative approach to game theory, one of the two counterparts of the discipline. After the presentation of some basic definitions, the focus will...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
The World Distribution Of Productivity: Country TFP Choice In A Nelson-Phelps Economy
Sep 2010
This paper builds a theory of the distribution of TFP across countries. The theory is based on the hypothesis that TFP improvements in a given country follow a Nelson-Phelps specification: they...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Unemployment And Productivity In The Long Run: The Role Of Macroeconomic Volatility
Sep 2010
The authors propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on asymmetric real wage rigidities. The theory generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Public Monopoly And Economic Efficiency: Evidence From The Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Aug 2010
While private monopolists are generally assumed to maximize profits, the goals of public enterprises are less well known. They estimate a spatial model of demand for liquor that allows calculating...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Bridging The Skills Gap: New Factors Compound The Growing Skills Shortage
Jan 2010
This paper defines a skills gap as a significant gap between an organization's current capabilities and the skills it needs to achieve its goals. It is the point at which an organization can no...
Provided by American Society for Training & Development
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White Papers
Trade Policy And Efficiency With Monopolistic Competition
Feb 2010
A comparative advantages model with monopolistic competition is developed to empirically examine the efficiency of protectionism. Based on Brazil's experience, the foreign economy is specified as...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Productivity In The Service Sector: A Service Classification Scheme For Productivity Measurement
Jul 2009
The problem of service productivity discussed in the paper focuses on productivity measurement issues. The aim of the paper is to elaborate criteria for the grouping of services as the reasoning...
Provided by Vilnius University
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White Papers
Inference For Parameters Defined By Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure
Sep 2008
This paper is concerned with tests and confidence intervals for partially-identified parameters that are defined by moment inequalities and equalities. In the literature, different test...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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White Papers
Moral Hazard And Efficiency in General Equilibrium With Anonymous Trading
Apr 2010
A "Folk theorem" originating, among others, in the work of Stiglitz maintains that competitive equilibrium are always or "Generically" inefficient. This paper critically reevaluates these claims...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
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White Papers
Skills, Tasks And Technologies: Implications For Employment And Earnings
Jun 2010
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what the authors refer to as the canonical...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Effects Of The Internationalisation Of Firms On Innovation And Productivity
Dec 2010
This paper examines the effects of the internationalisation of firms via foreign direct investment and trade on their innovation and productivity performance. This econometric results suggest that...
Provided by Economic and Social Research Institute
-
White Papers
Measuring The Cost Of International Trade In Services
Oct 2010
The authors present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments and cross-border trade, they find that...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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White Papers
Comparative Advantage And Within-industry Firms Performance
Dec 2010
Guided by empirical evidence the authors consider firms heterogeneity in terms of factor intensity. They show that Heckscher-Ohlin comparative advantage and firm-level relative factor-intensity...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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White Papers
Heterogeneous Firms Or Heterogeneous Workers?
Jun 2010
The authors expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced out, and labor is reallocated towards the best performing firms. But...
Provided by University of Oslo
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White Papers
Eight Essential Steps: Moving The Contact Center Beyond Operational Efficiency To Business Effectiveness
Jul 2010
For years, the goal of the contact center has been to operate efficiently, keeping costs as low as possible. During the recent economic downturn, cost reduction became even more crucial, and most...
Provided by Aspect Software
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White Papers
Framing, Motivated Reasoning, And Opinions About Emergent Technologies
Mar 2009
The authors address these questions by incorporating two critical dynamics, typically ignored in extant work: competition between information and over-time processes. They present results from...
Provided by Northwestern University
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White Papers
Imperfect Competition And Efficiency In Lemons Markets
Aug 2010
This paper studies the impact of competition on the degree of inefficiency in lemons markets. More precisely, the authors characterize the second-best mechanism (i.e., the optimal mechanism with...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
On The Theory Of A Firm: The Case Of By-Production Of Emissions
May 2010
Five attributes of emission generating technologies are identified and a concept of by production is introduced, which implies these five attributes. Murty and Russell [2010] characterization of...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Constraints On Income Distribution And Production Efficiency In Economies With Ramsey Taxation
May 2009
The authors study the link between second-best production efficiency and the constraints on income distribution imposed by private ownership of firms in economies with Ramsey taxation. They review...
Provided by University of Warwick
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Assessing The Incidence And Efficiency Of A Prominent Place Based Policy
Jun 2010
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round 1 of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Exporting Lead To Productivity Spillovers In Horizontal Or Vertical Industries? Evidence From Indonesia
Aug 2007
This paper investigates the presence of productivity spillovers due to exporting. In particular, it examines whether productivity gains from exporting spill over upstream (to suppliers),...
Provided by Columbia University
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When Does A Developing Country Use New Technologies?
Feb 2008
The authors develop a model of optimal pattern of economic development that is first rooted in physical capital accumulation and then in technical progress. They study an economy where capital...
Provided by Development & Policies Research Center
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What We Know About Relationship Between Training And Firm Performance: A Review Of Literature
Sep 2009
This paper review theory and empirical findings on the relationship between training and firm performance. The authors describe the various important theoretical approaches and proposed a...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Ready Or Not.? What~s The Relevance Of A Meso Level Approach To The Study Of Readiness For Change
Mar 2008
Organizational change often yields limited success. Failure in many cases is due to the lack of motivation or readiness for change among organizational members. This paper proposes and tests a...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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A Two-Level Competing Values Framework To Measuring Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness
Jan 2008
Theorists and researchers have contested the construct of organizational effectiveness for many years. As the study of organizational effectiveness in profit organizations is complex and muddled,...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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The Impact Of Cultural Resemblance On Management Control Of Supplier Relations: Longitudinal Evidence In The Automotive
Jan 2008
This study explores the impact of cultural resemblance on the Management Control System (MCS) of supplier relationships. Although MCSs are contingent on situational characteristics and this...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Money, Financial Stability And Efficiency
Jan 2011
Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. The authors consider a standard banking model...
Provided by European University Institute
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Specialization, Productivity And Financing Constraints
Apr 2010
The authors analyze financial contracting when the specificity of investments is endogenous. Specialization decreases the liquidation value of assets, but it also improves a firm's long term...
Provided by Boston University
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Tracking Canadian Trend Productivity: A Dynamic Factor Model With Markov Switching
Nov 2007
The author attempts to track Canadian labor productivity over the past four decades using a multivariate dynamic factor model that, in addition to the labor productivity series, includes aggregate...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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Understanding Productivity: A Review Of Recent Technical Research
Feb 2008
The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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Relative Price Movements And Labour Productivity In Canada: A VAR Analysis
May 2010
In recent years, the Canadian economy has been affected by strong movements in relative prices brought about by the surging costs of energy and non-energy commodities, with significant...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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When Consumption Heals Producers: The Effect Of Fair Trade On Marginalised Producers~ Health And Productivity
Apr 2008
Concerned consumers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to pay an "Ethical premium" for the social and environmental value of fair trade products. One of the fair trade criteria (aimed...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Assessing Output And Productivity Growth In The Banking Industry
Nov 2008
This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990-2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical...
Provided by Bank of Greece
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A Note On The Use Of Moving Average Trading Rules To Test For Weak Form Efficiency In Capital Markets
Oct 2008
This paper focuses on the sensitivity of the performance of the Moving Average (MA) trading rule of technical analysis to changes in the MA length employed. Empirical analysis of daily data from...
Provided by Bank of Greece
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Regional Growth And Finance In Europe: Is There A Quality Effect Of Bank Efficiency?
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors test whether regional growth in 11 European countries depends on financial development and suggest the use of cost- and profit-efficiency estimates as quality measures...
Provided by Bank of Finland
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Axiomatic Foundations Of Inefficiency Measurement On
Apr 2009
The authors provide an axiomatic foundation for efficiency measurement in the full (input, output) space, referred to as "Graph efficiency" measurement by Fare, Grosskopf, and Lovell [1985]. They...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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Quantifying Non-monotonicity In Productivity-Input Relations
Mar 2009
In this paper, the author presents a theory that unifies the role of demand and production to investigate conditions that make this relation a bell-shape. Under the optimality assumption and when...
Provided by University of New South Wales
