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Aldieri, Luigi - 2017

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Jacobian externalities stemmed from different technological sectors for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the development of new patents, is a key factor behind the...

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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2015

The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....

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Network Industries in the New Economy

John, McGee; Tanya, Sammut-Bonnici - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

In this paper we discuss two propositions: the supply and demand of knowledge, and network externalities. We outline the characteristics that distinguish knowledge-intensive industries from the general run of manufacturing and service businesses. Knowledge intensity and knowledge specialisation...

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Network Strategy in the Digital Economy

Sammut-Bonnici, Tanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This chapter is concerned with the ‘new’ world of information technology and knowledge intensity. This is a world marked by big investments in R&D, different cost structures and significantly changed demand conditions. You should read this chapter in conjunction with Chapter 19, which deals...

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Green Noise or Green Value? Measuring the Price Effects of Environmental Certification in Commercial Buildings

Fuerst, Franz; McAllister, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Evaluating the environmental performance of a building is rapidly gaining importance as a metric in real estate investments. Since interpretation of the technical measurements is difficult and requires high expertise, investors tend to rely on markers as provided by environmental certification...

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A Life experiment of development Mountain tourism in Portugal observed from the point of view of theories of Complexity, Complication and Self-organization

Carvalho, Pedro G.; Sonis, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper is an attempt to use the ideas of deepening complexity and self organization theory to a life experiment in developing tourism in a Portuguese mountain region da Estrela.

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Better Health and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) from a global, regional and local economic perspective

Eberhard, Birgid; Fachinger, Uwe; Henke, Klaus-Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Assisting technologies aim to provide more support in the meeting of one's daily needs and the preservation of one's autonomy and quality of life. Continual developments in medicine, medical equipment, nursing and medical care are assumed to lead to new types of care being created. A high degree...

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Regional differences in the governance of health care expenditure. Italian Health Care System (Ssn) in the transition toward Federalism: the SaniRegio Model by CeRM

Pammolli, Fabio; Salerno, Nicola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

of Italian Regions in governing their health care systems. As a result of the model, we obtain a measure of the efficient … offering health care provisions to their citizens. …

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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship: Economic Theory and practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina

Schmid, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and … health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of … to the American health care system provides the reader with the necessary background. A discussion of results completes …

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Selbstbeteiligung als Lösung für das Moral-Hazard-Problem auf dem Arzneimittelmarkt?

Carolin, Hoh; Ivonne, Honekamp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Within the debate about the rise of costs in the German health system, the argument has put forth that patients …

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