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White Papers
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance
Aug 2009
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage
May 2008
Today's professional services climate is challenging. Customers demand local delivery of global services. Sophisticated clients want consultants with deep industry or functional experience. And...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Developing An Integrated View Of Stakeholder Information In Latin America
Jan 2010
Like the rest of the world, Latin American countries have felt the effects of the global economic downturn in the last two years. The concentration of exporters in Latin America makes the region...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Influence Of Financial Derivatives In Global Commodity Markets
Jul 2009
Commodity markets are in a remarkable state of flux. Changes in the balance of supply and demand are a part of the reason, but so is the increased use of commodity based financial derivatives...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Holiday Homes, A Year-Round Business
Jan 2010
The term "Holiday home" combines two concepts which until very recently were incompatible: that of the second home, and that of tourist accommodation. In fact, the term holiday home is often used...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Do Futures lead Price Discovery in Electronic Foreign Exchange Markets?
Aug 2008
Using intra-day data, this paper investigates the contribution to the price discovery of Euro and Japanese Yen exchange rates in three foreign exchange markets based on electronic trading systems:...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Regulatory Exploitation And The Market For Corporate Control
Oct 2006
This paper evaluates the possibility that a failure to exploit regulatory loopholes could result in the ousting of management. It uses the U.S. hospital industry in 1985-1996 as a case study. A...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Into Africa
Dec 2009
African nations soon could surpass India and China to form the next hub for low-cost labor, resources, and production, said experts at the first Africa Business Seminar at Ross. In addition, the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Book Bonus: Selecting The Right Foreign Market
Apr 2009
With so many prospective countries available for expansion, one critical issue for the global entrepreneur is foreign market selection. Thunderbird Professor Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., shares a...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
First Generation Entrepreneurs Build The Chinese Market
May 2007
China was still reeling from the Tiananmen crackdown and the international condemnation that followed when Shawn Wang arrived in the United States as a student in 1990. "At that time, China wasn't...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Market Organization And Efficiency In Electricity Markets
Jun 2009
Electricity markets exhibit two forms of organization: decentralized bilateral trading and centralized auction markets. Using detailed data on prices, quantities, and production costs, we examine...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Latin America: Land Of Opportunity
Dec 2009
Latin America remains a healthy economic region despite ongoing market turmoil in the U.S. It has an appetite for people who can lead by example, influence a diverse group of customers and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Services Market Is Key To Open Source Software
Jan 2010
Open source software has become a major and fast-growing presence in the computer industry in recent years. Professor Tunay Tunca of Stanford Graduate School of Business and his co-authors argue...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Developing Nations Offer Big Market Opportunities
Nov 2008
Paul Otellini knows a thing or two about making unorthodox career moves. In 2005, he became the first non-engineer named to the top post at Santa Clara-based Intel, the world's leading...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Legal Regime, Size, And Liquidity Factors In Asset Pricing
Jul 2009
This study contrasts the ability of three liquidity constructs, the price-impact measure of Amihud (2002), the volume based turnover ratio, and the recently developed trading speed measure of Liu...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Determining The Intensity Of Buy And Sell Limit Order Submissions: A Look At The Market Preopening Period
May 2009
Using a unique dataset the authors examine the behavior of market participants in the absence of trading. Specifically the authors investigate the duration between arrival of orders of the same...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Shopping Mall Success Defies Critics In Peru
Jul 2008
The author says his group's market research showed that people in Lima wanted the mall to feel Peruvian rather than American. They wanted a place where they could attend concerts, play soccer and...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Challenges For The Chinese Exec
Jul 2008
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that by 2025, China's GDP will make up 25 percent of total global GDP, with the US at 18 percent and Europe at 10 percent....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Customer Profitability Analysis And Market Valuation: Differential Pricing And The Comparative Profitability Of Major Customer Sales
Nov 2008
In this study, author investigates whether inferences drawn from Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA) are associated with the information set used by investors valuing firms' equity. This...
Provided by Texas Christian University
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White Papers
Valuable, Rare Resources Or Really Big Vanity Plates? Market Reactions To Announcements Of Stadium Naming Rights
Jul 2008
Recently, the media has challenged the economic merits of the enhanced reputation and visibility associated with these arguments. After all, 70 percent of these agreements also provide corporate...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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White Papers
Marketing To Seniors: Age Really Is A State of Mind
Oct 2009
In the U.S.'s future, marketing to seniors will become even more important as the group of those 65-years and older nearly doubles in size: from 37 million to 72 million by 2030. There are already...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
Acquisition Vs. Internal Development As Modes Of Market Entry
Mar 2009
An established firm can enter a new product market through acquisition or internal development. Predictions are that the choice of market entry mode depends on "Relatedness" between the new...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Global Market Integration: An Alternative Measure And Its Application
Jan 2009
Many previous studies of international markets have attempted to measure integration by correlations among broad stock market indexes. Yet such correlations have been found to poorly mimic other...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Economic Reform And Growth Performance: China And Vietnam In Comparison
Sep 2008
The paper documents three principal findings: (1) China and Vietnam are noticeably similar in their initial conditions and approaches to reform and economic management (2) the widening gap in...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
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White Papers
The Saving Story Behind China's Trade Imbalance
May 2008
China's mounting trade surplus is an indirect outcome of its extraordinarily rapid economic growth. High growth pulls up the saving rate. And saving beyond a level that can be absorbed by domestic...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
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White Papers
CDMA2000 For Developing Markets
Jan 2007
Most emerging markets have one thing in common - their citizens and businesses have limited access to basic telephone services, and those that are available often are prohibitively expensive. This...
Provided by CDMA Development Group
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White Papers
Fighting Poverty Through Profits
Jun 2010
Once one cross the big mental divide and start thinking of the people at the bottom of the pyramid as potential consumers, how to do it becomes very obvious. However, because of the way one is...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Go Global: Selling In China Is All The Rage
Jan 2010
To keep the global small business innovative, one constantly track what the global giants are doing internationally. Where are they investing? Why? After all, they have more dollars to spend than...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Burgeoning China Market Still Doesn't Quite Grasp CRM
Jan 2010
CRM is still in its infancy in China, but there are signs that the industry will be awakening soon. China is a burgeoning market, ripe for customer relationship management. It's simply a matter of...
Provided by CustomerThink
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White Papers
Areas Where Outsourcing Will Grow In The Next Five Years
Jan 2010
The author says reverse outsourcing will pick up steam. This trend has two facets. First, he says the economic downturn and the weakening U.S. dollar have inspired some companies to move their...
Provided by Everest Partners
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White Papers
Why Is The Attrition Rate At Indian BPOs 23.5 Percent? A HayGroup Study Offers Solutions
Jan 2009
Many BPO workers use the money they earn to fund a post-graduate degree. Some use the experience to get a day job as soon as they can. The BPO work is attractive to younger workers. The author...
Provided by Everest Partners
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White Papers
Small Business Marketing Series - Choosing A Niche Market
Jan 2010
Many smaller businesses choose niche markets for various reasons and these niche markets can be very lucrative. This paper looks at ways to identify and assess whether they are right for your...
Provided by CompareCRM.com
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Webcasts
User Experience Management Indicators for Business and IT Success
Sep 2010
In this Quest Software on-demand webcast, learn about the importance of user experience management indicators - and what they can do for your business. See how common indicators enable...
Provided by Quest Software
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White Papers
Pitfalls In Estimating Asymmetric Effects Of Energy Price Shocks
May 2009
A common view in the literature is that the effect of energy price shocks on macroeconomic aggregates is asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases. The author shows that widely used...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Podcasts
What Keeps The CEO Awake At Night? List Starts With China
Apr 2010
What keeps the CEO up at night? For high-potential managers in the Thunderbird International Consortia, the conversation starts with a single word: China. The managers shared their biggest...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Webcasts
Two-Sided Markets
Apr 2009
Dean's Research Fellow and Professor of Information Systems Marshall Van Alstyne discusses the effects of two-sided markets in this podcast, and how they are different from traditional markets.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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White Papers
Investment By Large Firms In Argentina
Jan 2010
Strong growth in investment made a key contribution to the economic recovery in Argentina earlier this decade. This paper uses firm-level data to assess changes in financing constraints and the...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Central Bank Financial Strength And Policy Performance: An Econometric Evaluation
May 2008
This paper analyzed oil prices during 2000M1 - 2007M10. To exhibit effect of monetary policy, the paper distinguished two samples 2000M1 - 2003M4 and 2003M5 - 2007M10. The paper assumed oil prices...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
A Markov-Switching Approach To Measuring Exchange Market Pressure
Oct 2007
This paper characterizes exchange market pressure as a nonlinear Markov-switching phenomenon, and examines its dynamics in response to money growth and inflation over three regimes. The empirical...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Going Global On A Shoestring?
Apr 2010
It's been a couple of years since you began developing a new product for your local market, and you are finally starting to reap the fruits of your labor. Orders are coming in! Clients are happy...
Provided by GlobalVision International
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White Papers
Money Market Integration And Sovereign CDS Spreads Dynamics In The New EU States
Oct 2010
When the first phase of the crisis focused primarily on the interbank market volatility, the second phase spread on the instability of public finance. Although the overall stance of public...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Analyst Reputation And Affiliated Dealer's Market Making
Sep 2007
The authors investigate the effects of analysts' reputation on affiliated dealers' market making activities. They find that, for a given stock, dealers who have affiliated analysts covering the...
Provided by Bowling Green State University
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White Papers
Winning Ideas: Lessons From Free-Market Economics
Sep 2007
For economic ideas to take root and change history, a number of ingredients need to be present, ranging from individual agents to policy implementation. This paper identifies certain strategic...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
Applying Network Approach To Commercialization Of Innovations: Case Study On Nets To Create Markets For Innovations
Sep 2009
Commercialization and market creation of an innovation is known to be a very demanding task. However, a network may help a firm in the commercialization efforts. The paper analyses how network is...
Provided by Turku School of Economics
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White Papers
Lemons And Money Markets
Nov 2009
This paper identifies simple conditions for monotone comparative statics of a unique equilibrium in the Akerlof-Wilson model. Separate conditions apply to trade volume and price. Trade volume...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Trade, Markup Heterogeneity And Misallocations
Jan 2010
Markups vary widely across industries and countries, their heterogeneity has increased overtime and asymmetric exposure to international trade seems partly responsible for this phenomenon. In this...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Credence Goods Markets With Conscientious And Selfish Experts
Nov 2007
The author studies credence goods markets when an expert is either selfish or conscientious. A selfish expert is a profit maximizer. A conscientious expert wants to maximize profit and repair the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Informational Inefficiency Of The Brazilian Stockmarket
Nov 2007
If past information about public macroeconomic data can affect current stock prices, the stockmarket is inefficient because such a piece of information is not embodied in the prices. This is...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Market Characteristics And Chaos Dynamics In Stock Markets: An International Comparison
Nov 2007
The chaos theory assumes that the returns dynamics are not normally distributed and more complex approaches have to be used to study these time series. In fact, the Fractal Market Hypothesis...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Alliance Partner Choice In Markets With Vertical And Horizontal Externalities
Oct 2010
This study investigates the choice between complementary and parallel alliances in a market with vertical and horizontal externalities. One composite goods firm competes with two components...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
CSR And Market Changing Product Innovations: Indian Case Studies
Apr 2010
Do firms need to sacrifice profit while innovating in order to further social objectives, as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) would seem to suggest? To answer this question, the paper...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
The Market For Policy Communication
Dec 2010
The authors develop a model of policy communication by aid agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations and they show how the need for fundraising affects the policy communication strategy...
Provided by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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White Papers
Trade Reforms And Market Selection: Evidence From Manufacturing Plants In Colombia
Apr 2009
The authors use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. They find that each of these market...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Market Selection
Jul 2009
The hypothesis that financial markets punish traders who make relatively inaccurate forecasts and eventually eliminate the effect of their beliefs on prices is of fundamental importance to the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Regional Development In Lao PDR: Growth Patterns And Market Integration
Jun 2007
Lao PDR has shown a strong record of economic growth and poverty alleviation since the early 1990s. Yet, the pace of economic development has varied significantly between different parts of the...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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White Papers
Natural Selection In Financial Markets: Does It Work?
Apr 2008
Can investors with incorrect beliefs survive in financial markets and have a significant impact on asset prices? The author's paper addresses this issue by analyzing a dynamic general equilibrium...
Provided by Yale School of Management
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White Papers
Market Selection And Payout Policy Under Majority Rule
Sep 2007
This paper is to explain how the choice between distributing cash through dividends or shares repurchases affects the firm's ability to raise capital in the financial market. The author assumes...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
The Rise Of Emerging Market Multinationals And Its Impact On Marketing
Mar 2008
The world of business is changing and we are now witnessing the beginning of the end of old economic order which has for decades been dominated by the triad economies (US, Europe and Japan). The...
Provided by Brunel University
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White Papers
A Better Life? The Wants And Worries Of China's Consumers
Aug 2010
One of the legacies of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis has been a new focus on the latent power of the Chinese consumer. As demand in the United States and Europe has waned, exports have...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Tomorrow's Markets
Sep 2008
The big four emerging markets - Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) - have for some time captured investors' imagination. But the picture has become more complex in recent years. Rising...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
M&A Beyond Borders: Opportunities And Risks
Mar 2008
Emerging market corporations are now more confident in their pursuit of M&A. Chinese, Indian and Russian companies have been prolific in venturing outside their domestic markets to do deals,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
CEO Briefing: Corporate Priorities For 2007 And Beyond
Jan 2007
If optimism is any guide, 2007 is shaping up to be a vintage year. Respondents to the fifth annual CEO Briefing survey are more buoyant than they have ever been. Nine out of ten executives regard...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
From West To East: Gauging Institutional Investor Attitudes To Asia
Mar 2010
As the world emerges from the worst financial crisis for more than a generation, a shift in economic power from West to East is gathering pace. With many developed countries weighed down with debt...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Barriers To Entry: Coping With Protectionism
Nov 2006
Protectionism is thought to be on the rise, particularly in the developed world. Just over 50% of survey respondents thought that protectionism was rising either significantly or moderately in...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Operating Risk In Emerging Markets
Jan 2007
In the 25 years since the phrase was coined, emerging markets have seen mixed fortunes. Shaking off their status as junk-level exotics after the inflation-wracked 1970s and 1980s, they attracted...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
The Big Tilt: The Rise Of The East And What It Means For Business
Feb 2010
The East has been rising since the 1950s, and its economic ascent is entering a new phase, following the Great Recession. There are likely to be a number of differences in its evolution in the...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Personalisation: Opening Doors To Growth In China
Aug 2009
China may still be known as the world's factory, but many China-based companies already offer personalized goods and services as sophisticated as those found in the most advanced economies. Nearly...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
The Japanese Generic Drug Market: Opportunities And Strategies For Success
Jan 2011
Neither the Japanese Government nor its physicians, pharmacies and patients are hostile to foreign drugs and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) in principle. In practice, however, there is...
Provided by Thomson Reuters
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White Papers
Sterilized Intervention In Emerging-Market Economies: Trends, Costs, And Risks
Mar 2008
The author examines recent trends in sterilized intervention among emerging-market economies, to determine the size and extent of this policy in relation to earlier periods of heavy reserve...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Class Size And Sorting In Market Equilibrium: Theory And Evidence
Jul 2007
This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. The model offers an explanation for two distinct empirical patterns observed among private...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Bilateral And Community Enforcement In A Networked Market With Simple Strategies
Jan 2011
In many markets, successful execution of mutually beneficial economic transactions relies on informal contracts that are enforced by social pressure and reputation. Informal enforcement mechanisms...
Provided by Brown University
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White Papers
Basel II And Emerging Economies
Feb 2007
The aim of this paper is to review main features of the new Basel capital accord from the viewpoint of emerging market economies. Given the wide scope of an internal capital adequacy assessment...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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White Papers
Small Is Beautiful: The Role Of Book Industries In Small European Countries
Jun 2010
This paper deals with four cultural and historical features of book industry that still determine the nature of book business. The paper concentrates on how these features impact book industries...
Provided by University of Ljubljana
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White Papers
Influence Of EPA Policy Uncertainty: Upon Market Innovation For Environmentally Related Products
Feb 2010
Grounded by Contingency Theory, the study focuses on the impact of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulatory action on market innovation. Based upon detailed interview from eighty one...
Provided by Clark Atlanta University
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White Papers
Ambiguity, Information Lifespan And Market Behavior
Feb 2010
The paper examines the effects of both ambiguity and information lifespan on the optimal investment rate as well as on the DMs' behavior. The research allows one to show that under an ambiguous...
Provided by Yokohama National University
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Webcasts
The Unpredictability Of Black Swans In Emerging Markets
Oct 2009
As investors everywhere lose money to the financial crisis, many are wondering whether large catastrophic market swings, known as "black swans," could ever be predicted with any degree of...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Webcasts
Outsourcing: India's Tata Eyes China Market As Part Of Drive To Go Global
Aug 2010
Indian firms are looking to expand overseas: not just west, but also east to China, a market with huge domestic opportunities. One such firm is IT services group Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
Shedding Light: INSEAD Initiatives Seek To Foster Growth, Development In Africa
Jan 2011
Listen to INSEAD faculty, alumni and associates talk, and you realize that Africa is no longer just a story of disease, poverty, misery and humanitarian aid. Or of China's hunger for raw materials...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
Understanding Markets Key To Globalization
Jan 2011
Even as some multinationals are still mulling over their China strategy, others like Siemens had been laying the groundwork in China a long time ago. Today, Siemens is still on track with its...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
India Economic Outlook
May 2010
Although China's overall economic growth continues to outpace India's, India enjoys relatively stronger domestic demand that bolsters a robust economic outlook, according to Dr Sanjaya Baru,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Webcasts
User Experience Management Indicators for Business and IT Success
Sep 2010
In this Quest Software on-demand webcast, learn about the importance of user experience management indicators - and what they can do for your business. See how common indicators enable...
Provided by Quest Software
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White Papers
Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability
Jul 2007
A variety of forces shape the professional services industry - from fierce competition and globalization to the modularization of business processes and technology. Clients want professional...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance
Aug 2009
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
-
White Papers
Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage
May 2008
Today's professional services climate is challenging. Customers demand local delivery of global services. Sophisticated clients want consultants with deep industry or functional experience. And...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Developing An Integrated View Of Stakeholder Information In Latin America
Jan 2010
Like the rest of the world, Latin American countries have felt the effects of the global economic downturn in the last two years. The concentration of exporters in Latin America makes the region...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
The Influence Of Financial Derivatives In Global Commodity Markets
Jul 2009
Commodity markets are in a remarkable state of flux. Changes in the balance of supply and demand are a part of the reason, but so is the increased use of commodity based financial derivatives...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Holiday Homes, A Year-Round Business
Jan 2010
The term "Holiday home" combines two concepts which until very recently were incompatible: that of the second home, and that of tourist accommodation. In fact, the term holiday home is often used...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Do Futures lead Price Discovery in Electronic Foreign Exchange Markets?
Aug 2008
Using intra-day data, this paper investigates the contribution to the price discovery of Euro and Japanese Yen exchange rates in three foreign exchange markets based on electronic trading systems:...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Regulatory Exploitation And The Market For Corporate Control
Oct 2006
This paper evaluates the possibility that a failure to exploit regulatory loopholes could result in the ousting of management. It uses the U.S. hospital industry in 1985-1996 as a case study. A...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Into Africa
Dec 2009
African nations soon could surpass India and China to form the next hub for low-cost labor, resources, and production, said experts at the first Africa Business Seminar at Ross. In addition, the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
Book Bonus: Selecting The Right Foreign Market
Apr 2009
With so many prospective countries available for expansion, one critical issue for the global entrepreneur is foreign market selection. Thunderbird Professor Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., shares a...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
First Generation Entrepreneurs Build The Chinese Market
May 2007
China was still reeling from the Tiananmen crackdown and the international condemnation that followed when Shawn Wang arrived in the United States as a student in 1990. "At that time, China wasn't...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Market Organization And Efficiency In Electricity Markets
Jun 2009
Electricity markets exhibit two forms of organization: decentralized bilateral trading and centralized auction markets. Using detailed data on prices, quantities, and production costs, we examine...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Latin America: Land Of Opportunity
Dec 2009
Latin America remains a healthy economic region despite ongoing market turmoil in the U.S. It has an appetite for people who can lead by example, influence a diverse group of customers and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
Services Market Is Key To Open Source Software
Jan 2010
Open source software has become a major and fast-growing presence in the computer industry in recent years. Professor Tunay Tunca of Stanford Graduate School of Business and his co-authors argue...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Developing Nations Offer Big Market Opportunities
Nov 2008
Paul Otellini knows a thing or two about making unorthodox career moves. In 2005, he became the first non-engineer named to the top post at Santa Clara-based Intel, the world's leading...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Legal Regime, Size, And Liquidity Factors In Asset Pricing
Jul 2009
This study contrasts the ability of three liquidity constructs, the price-impact measure of Amihud (2002), the volume based turnover ratio, and the recently developed trading speed measure of Liu...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Determining The Intensity Of Buy And Sell Limit Order Submissions: A Look At The Market Preopening Period
May 2009
Using a unique dataset the authors examine the behavior of market participants in the absence of trading. Specifically the authors investigate the duration between arrival of orders of the same...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Shopping Mall Success Defies Critics In Peru
Jul 2008
The author says his group's market research showed that people in Lima wanted the mall to feel Peruvian rather than American. They wanted a place where they could attend concerts, play soccer and...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Challenges For The Chinese Exec
Jul 2008
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that by 2025, China's GDP will make up 25 percent of total global GDP, with the US at 18 percent and Europe at 10 percent....
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Customer Profitability Analysis And Market Valuation: Differential Pricing And The Comparative Profitability Of Major Customer Sales
Nov 2008
In this study, author investigates whether inferences drawn from Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA) are associated with the information set used by investors valuing firms' equity. This...
Provided by Texas Christian University
-
White Papers
Valuable, Rare Resources Or Really Big Vanity Plates? Market Reactions To Announcements Of Stadium Naming Rights
Jul 2008
Recently, the media has challenged the economic merits of the enhanced reputation and visibility associated with these arguments. After all, 70 percent of these agreements also provide corporate...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
-
White Papers
Marketing To Seniors: Age Really Is A State of Mind
Oct 2009
In the U.S.'s future, marketing to seniors will become even more important as the group of those 65-years and older nearly doubles in size: from 37 million to 72 million by 2030. There are already...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
-
White Papers
Acquisition Vs. Internal Development As Modes Of Market Entry
Mar 2009
An established firm can enter a new product market through acquisition or internal development. Predictions are that the choice of market entry mode depends on "Relatedness" between the new...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Global Market Integration: An Alternative Measure And Its Application
Jan 2009
Many previous studies of international markets have attempted to measure integration by correlations among broad stock market indexes. Yet such correlations have been found to poorly mimic other...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Economic Reform And Growth Performance: China And Vietnam In Comparison
Sep 2008
The paper documents three principal findings: (1) China and Vietnam are noticeably similar in their initial conditions and approaches to reform and economic management (2) the widening gap in...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
-
White Papers
The Saving Story Behind China's Trade Imbalance
May 2008
China's mounting trade surplus is an indirect outcome of its extraordinarily rapid economic growth. High growth pulls up the saving rate. And saving beyond a level that can be absorbed by domestic...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
-
White Papers
CDMA2000 For Developing Markets
Jan 2007
Most emerging markets have one thing in common - their citizens and businesses have limited access to basic telephone services, and those that are available often are prohibitively expensive. This...
Provided by CDMA Development Group
-
White Papers
Fighting Poverty Through Profits
Jun 2010
Once one cross the big mental divide and start thinking of the people at the bottom of the pyramid as potential consumers, how to do it becomes very obvious. However, because of the way one is...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Go Global: Selling In China Is All The Rage
Jan 2010
To keep the global small business innovative, one constantly track what the global giants are doing internationally. Where are they investing? Why? After all, they have more dollars to spend than...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
The Burgeoning China Market Still Doesn't Quite Grasp CRM
Jan 2010
CRM is still in its infancy in China, but there are signs that the industry will be awakening soon. China is a burgeoning market, ripe for customer relationship management. It's simply a matter of...
Provided by CustomerThink
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White Papers
Areas Where Outsourcing Will Grow In The Next Five Years
Jan 2010
The author says reverse outsourcing will pick up steam. This trend has two facets. First, he says the economic downturn and the weakening U.S. dollar have inspired some companies to move their...
Provided by Everest Partners
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Why Is The Attrition Rate At Indian BPOs 23.5 Percent? A HayGroup Study Offers Solutions
Jan 2009
Many BPO workers use the money they earn to fund a post-graduate degree. Some use the experience to get a day job as soon as they can. The BPO work is attractive to younger workers. The author...
Provided by Everest Partners
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Small Business Marketing Series - Choosing A Niche Market
Jan 2010
Many smaller businesses choose niche markets for various reasons and these niche markets can be very lucrative. This paper looks at ways to identify and assess whether they are right for your...
Provided by CompareCRM.com
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Pitfalls In Estimating Asymmetric Effects Of Energy Price Shocks
May 2009
A common view in the literature is that the effect of energy price shocks on macroeconomic aggregates is asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases. The author shows that widely used...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Podcasts
What Keeps The CEO Awake At Night? List Starts With China
Apr 2010
What keeps the CEO up at night? For high-potential managers in the Thunderbird International Consortia, the conversation starts with a single word: China. The managers shared their biggest...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Webcasts
Two-Sided Markets
Apr 2009
Dean's Research Fellow and Professor of Information Systems Marshall Van Alstyne discusses the effects of two-sided markets in this podcast, and how they are different from traditional markets.
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Investment By Large Firms In Argentina
Jan 2010
Strong growth in investment made a key contribution to the economic recovery in Argentina earlier this decade. This paper uses firm-level data to assess changes in financing constraints and the...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Central Bank Financial Strength And Policy Performance: An Econometric Evaluation
May 2008
This paper analyzed oil prices during 2000M1 - 2007M10. To exhibit effect of monetary policy, the paper distinguished two samples 2000M1 - 2003M4 and 2003M5 - 2007M10. The paper assumed oil prices...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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A Markov-Switching Approach To Measuring Exchange Market Pressure
Oct 2007
This paper characterizes exchange market pressure as a nonlinear Markov-switching phenomenon, and examines its dynamics in response to money growth and inflation over three regimes. The empirical...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
