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In an increasingly competitive environment, firms have to optimally adjust both their allocation of input factors and their technology portfolio. The latter determines economies of scope and scale in future research and production. The aim of this dissertation is to achieve better insight into...
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In 1978, Roger Koenker and Gilbert Bassett, Jr. introduced a new econometric estimation method and entitled it quantile regression. Since then, many subsequent authors have elaborated and extended the underlying theoretical framework. Other contributions have successfully applied the procedure...
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Measuring the contribution of different markets to the price discovery process of a common asset has been the subject of many research studies in the last decade. In particular the newly developed derivatives markets have given rise to an increasing number of empirical studies examining the...
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environmental crime rates. With a view to validating the economic theory of crime, there is clear evidence that the "calculus of …
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Germany has been an immigration country for more than 30 years now, although many politicians claim the opposite and many people in Germany are inclined to agree with their assessment. However, it is the actual experience with immigration, and not what people would like to experience, which...
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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. The second section of my paper provides an academic review of the literature, focusing on econometric theory that tests …
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Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
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Corporate Venture Capital bezeichnet die Finanzierung von Jungunternehmen durch etablierte Firmen. Diese Dissertation untersucht anhand eines Datensatzes die Unterschiede zwischen Venture Capital und Corporate Venture Capital und eruiert die Einflussfaktoren auf das Umsatz- und...
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This paper presents a new axiomatic decision theory for choice under uncertainty. Unlike Bayesian decision theory where … uncertainty is represented by a probability function, in our theory, uncertainty is given in the form of a likelihood function … statistical inference problem, our theory suggests a novel solution. The results in this paper could be useful for probabilistic …
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