Search Results - subject:"complementarities"

Optimal Monetary Policy with Imperfect Common Knowledge

Adam, Klaus - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2003

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Goodhue, Rachael E.; Rausser, Gordon C. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 28 (2003) 03

attributes, is examined. Value differentiation is characterized by complementarities across four activities at each stage of the … customer preference detection. Complementarities at the firm level are modeled using supermodularity. The model's predictions …

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Trade policy in a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods under nonhomothetic preferences

Stibora, Joachim; de Vaal, Albert - School of Economics, Kingston University - 2003

We develop a Ricardian trade model with a continuum of goods that are ordered according to priority in consumption. Go o ds at the lower end of the spectrum are consumed by all households and when income increases households add higher-ranked goods to their consumption baskets. We apply this...

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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The Firm as a Pool of Factor Complementarities

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2003

This paper presents a new approach to the theory of the firm by identifying factor complementarities as central to the … determination of the firm’s boundaries. The factor complementarities may take a variety of forms: technological and informational … complementarities, as well as economies of scale and scope. We examine the tradeoff between the gains from these complementarities and …

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Posiciones legales y complementariedades institucionales

Pagano, Ugo - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 5 (2003) July-December, pp. 17-54

institutional complementarities that differ from the usual institutional complementarities that have been recently considered in …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Transition Economies

Aleksynska, Mariya; Gaisford, James; Kerr, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Recent studies of developing countries have suggested that the effectiveness of foreign direct investment (FDI) as spur to econo mic growth depends on the availability of "human capital" or skilled labour in a host country. In other words, it is primarily the synergy between FDI and human...

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Complementarities, Costly Investment and Multiple Equilibria in a One-Sector Endogenous Growth Model

Thompson, Maria João Ribeiro - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2003

assumption of complementarities between capital goods in the production function and the assumption of costly investment in …

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Equilibria in a Dynamic Global Game: The role of cohort effects

Heidhues, Paul; Melissas, Nicolas - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

We introduce strategic waiting in a global game setting. Players can wait in order to take a better informed decision. We allow for cohort effects, which naturally arise if the network externality in a given period depends on the mass of players who are actively using the technology at this...

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The Firm as a Pool of Factor Complementarities

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

This paper presents a new approach to the theory of the firm by identifying factor complementarities as central to the … determination of the firm's boundaries. The factor complementarities may take a variety of forms: technological and informational … complementarities, as well as economies of scale and scope. We examine the tradeoff between the gains from these complementarities and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190627