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explore importance of such a network for regions; knowledge and information flows within this network and their importance for …
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information flows from networks and the perceived risk of decisions associated with the future size of a firm. The main … proposition is that growth expectations might be the outcome of superior judgment stemming from privileged information derived … regarding growth might be the outcome of superior judgment stemming from privileged information derived from networks. Analysis …
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This paper analyzes the welfare impact of a cap on commissions paid by product providers to intermediaries who advise consumers. In contrast to the extant literature, with a downward sloping demand capped commissions have a direct impact on product providers' margins and consumers' prices. I...
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operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore …
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Richard Langlois, Tony Yu & Paul Robertson have assembled a collection of previously published papers that move beyond textbook production theory. This essay discusses work by Frank Knight and Hendrik Houthakker not reproduced in LYR in relation to the capability theory of economic organization....
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The knowledge-capital model of foreign direct investment implies that countries with relatively large outward FDI stocks should also have a relative abundance of proprietary knowledge assets. Early versions of the knowledge-capital theory model these assets as if they were only the results of...
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information otherwise may choose not to change it although an otherwise identical risk-neutral firm would do so, provided the …
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The paper discusses situations in which consumers search through their options in a deliberate order, in contrast to more familiar models with random search. Topics include: network effects (consumers may be better off following the same search order as other consumers); the use of price and...
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by trade and adjustment costs. This paper focuses on the impact of the EU Commission’s sugar policy reform and the … model the abolition of import tariffs for sugar originating in least developed countries, subject to trade costs, while the …The changes recently introduced in the EU Common Market Organization for sugar will interact with preferential imports …
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sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the US sugar program; and a final section … program is becoming unsustainable because sugar imports are progressively creeping into the US market through regional trade … countercyclical, and direct payments, but keeping the current trade protection nearly intact thanks to the high bound-tariff on sugar …
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