Search Results - subject:"EXPERIMENTATION"

The internationalization process of firms : From exports to FDI ?

Conconi, Paola; Sapir, André; Zanardi, Maurizio - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2010

We describe a simple model in which domestic firms decide whether to serve a foreign market through exports or horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). This choice involves a trade-off between the higher variable trade costs associated with exports and the higher fixed set-up costs associated...

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QUELLE DEVRAIT ÊTRE L'ALLURE DES DISTRIBUTIONS DE RÉSULTATS NON MANIPULÉS ?

Vidal, Olivier - HAL - 2010

expérimentation pour confirmer le bien-fondé de ce postulat. L'article s'interroge également sur l'allure générale que devrait …

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Evaluation aléatoire et expérimentations sociales

Yannick L’Horty; Petit, Pascale - Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), … - 2010

Les méthodes d’évaluation aléatoire ont commencé à être appliquées à de grands programmes sociaux en France depuis 2007, soit plus de quarante ans après les premiers travaux analogues menés aux Etats-Unis. Elles connaissent depuis un développement rapide. Ces méthodes...

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Sequential exporting

Albornoz, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Héctor F.; Corcos, Gregory - 2010

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Strategic learning in teams

Klein, Nicolas Alexandre - 2010 - This version: July 23, 2010

This paper analyzes a two-player game of strategic experimentation with three-armed exponential bandits in continuous …

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Strategic experimentation with Poisson bandits

Keller, Godfrey; Rady, Sven - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 5 (2010) 2, pp. 275-311

We study a game of strategic experimentation with two-armed bandits where the risky arm distributes lump-sum payoffs …, asymmetric equilibria in which players take turns playing the risky arm before all experimentation stops Pareto dominate the … where players experiment, but may reduce the intensity of experimentation at more optimistic beliefs. This suggests that …

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The internationalization process of firms : from exports to FDI?

Conconi, Paola; Sapir, André; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2010 - Preliminary version

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Design Thinking for Social Innovation

Brown, Tim; Wyatt, Jocelyn - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 1, pp. 29-43

Designers have traditionally focused on enchancing the look and functionality of products.

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Putting Nairobi's Slums on the Map

Hagen, Erica - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 1, pp. 41-43

The streets of Kibera, one of the largets slums in Africa, are narrowly winding pathways strewn with garbage, divided down the middle by streams of sewage and waste that make walking treacherous.

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Making Sense of Modeling: Beyond Representation

Peschard, Isabelle - 2009

It has recently been aptly emphasized that how models are used is essential to what scientific models are. But the explanations of why and how a model is used or why a model is scientifically valuable are still merely in terms of the relation between the model and its target, just as they were...

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