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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … investment, while price uncertainty is insignificant. This is consistent with the behavior of monopolistic firms with … firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical …

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Distributional dynamics under smoothly state-dependent pricing

Costain, James; Nakov, Anton - 2011

Starting from the assumption that firms are more likely to adjust their prices when doing so is more valuable, this paper analyzes monetary policy shocks in a DSGE model with firm-level heterogeneity. The model is calibrated to retail price microdata, and inflation responses are decomposed into...

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An analysis of systemic risk in alternative securities settlement architectures

Iori, Giulia - 2004

This paper compares securities settlement gross and netting architectures. It studies settlement risk arising from exogenous operational delays and compares settlement failures between the two architectures as functions of the length of the settlement interval under different market conditions....

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In dubio pro CES

León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2010

Capital-labor substitution and total factor productivity (TFP) estimates are essential features of growth and income distribution models. In the context of a Monte Carlo exercise embodying balanced and near balanced growth, we demonstrate that the estimation of the substitution elasticity can be...

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Work organisation and innovation : Annexes

2012

This document comprises two annexes to the report "Work organisation and innovation". Annex 1: Summary of some major …

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Work organisation and innovation - Case study : Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Foley, Beth; Cox, Annette - 2013

The Productive Ward (PW) programme was designed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, in partnership …

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Work organisation and innovation - Case study : Care Home X, Finland

Kivimäki, Riikka - 2013

Care Home X is a long-term care unit with traditional elderly care wards but which also has psychiatric wards and a Swedish-speaking elderly care ward. In Finland arranging care for the elderly is the responsibility of the municipalities. The ward hosts/hostesses are in charge of various...

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Work organisation and innovation - Case study : Radiometer, Denmark

Høyrup, Steen; Møller, Kirsten - 2013

associates, customers and, not least, shareholders. The innovation described in this case study – the introduction of the DBS …

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Work organisation and innovation - Case study : Bombardier, Belgium

Maenen, Seth; De Hauw, Yolien - 2013

Bruges, workplace innovation is undertaken in two main ways. The first dimension of workplace innovation aims at improving … process efficiency and product quality. The second dimension of workplace innovation, which is more specific to the site in …

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Work organisation and innovation - Case study : Volkswagen Poznań, Poland

Andrałojć, Magdalena; Kochalski, Cezary; … - 2013

numerous projects and activities aimed at the employees. The innovation of ‘Demographic challenges at VWP’ consolidates the …

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