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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume X, tape 2
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1991
During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "The Expanding Leadership of Mid-Sized Organizations" he discusses why mid-sized companies have excelled and what they require to maintain their competitive advantage. During his lecture, he talks about: multinationals, the growth of imports, Boeing and...
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Management betrieblicher Risiken bei produzierenden Unternehmen
König, Roland - 2008
the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Produktion unter Risiko : ein agentenbasiertes, sektorales Partialmodell zur Anwendung in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Meißner, Frank - 2007
-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …
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A media analysis approach to evaluating national health information infrastructure development
Cockcroft, S. - 2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate electronic health record (EHR) initiatives at the national/external level. Governments are investing large amounts of money in national EHR systems. These systems are socially and politically complex and a variety of stakeholders (e.g. at the...
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ESSAYS ON HOUSING INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING MARKETS
Qi, Zhikun - 2009
New residential construction is significantly more procyclical in emerging markets than in developed countries, although the correlation between aggregate investment and output is similar across emerging and developed countries. This paper shows that a multi-sector stochastic growth model with a...
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Two Essays in Macroeconomics
Wu, Dong - 2010
Castro and Coen-Pirani (2008) document that aggregate skilled hours and employment both became more volatile after the mid-1980s, in contrast to the simultaneous volatility decline of most aggregates, including overall hours and employment and unskilled hours and employment. In chapter 1, I...
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Job Competition over the Business Cycle
Chasamboulli, Andri N. - 2005
test the empirical relevance of over-qualification. I ask whether the risk of unemployment induces high-skilled workers to …
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Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Udry, Christopher - 2004
income risk. The survey coincided with a period of severe drought, so that the results provide direct evidence on the …. In particular, there is almost no risk sharing, and households rely almost exclusively on self-insurance in the form of … adjustments to grain stocks to smooth out consumption. The outcome, however is far from complete smoothing. Hence the main risk …
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