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- Setting up of Life Insurance Brokerage Subsidiaries
- The purpose of this paper is to seek the views of interested stakeholders regarding a proposal from the credit union system to authorize credit unions to establish or purchase a life insurance brokerage subsidiary. The proposal does not extend to the establishment of a general property and casualty insurance brokerage....
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Economics, Psychology, And Social Dynamics Of Consumer Bidding In Auctions
- With Increasing Numbers Of Consumers In Auction Marketplaces, the publisher Highlights Some Recent Approaches That Bring Additional Economic, Social, And psychological Factors To Bear On Existing Economic Theory To Better Understand And Explain Consumers' Behavior In Auctions. The publisher Also Highlights Specific Research Streams That Could Contribute Towards Enriching Existing...
- White papers 2005-06-11
- Large Real Exchange Rate Movements, Firm Dynamics, And Productivity Growth
- This paper examines the influence that large real exchange rate movements can have on a firm's production scale and turnover, and the contribution of these decisions to productivity growth. Our theoretical model, which takes Krugman's (1979) model as its basis, predicts that real appreciations of home currency not only will...
- White papers 2004-05-24
- Regulation And The Marketplace
- That fundamental idea has been elaborated to understand better how merchants develop reputation, and seek to signal their good character to consumers and differentiate themselves from less scrupulous merchants. While economists generally find those ideas to be quite persuasive, many others are not convinced. Demands for government regulation are often...
- White papers 2004-01-14
- The Choice Of IPO Versus Takeover: Private Investors And Empirical Evidence
- This paper studies the effect of private investor contractual governance on the likelihood of an entrepreneurial firm going public versus being acquired. On one hand, one may expect that the use of strong investor control contracts improves entrepreneurial firm governance and increases the probability of going public. On the other...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Firm Performance, Knowledge Transfer And International Joint Ventures
- Management and protection of proprietary intangible assets such as technology and management skills is important for firms considering international expansion via joint ventures. Joint venture partners have incentives to appropriate intangible property. Also many governments have instituted policies to help domestic firms maximise technology spillovers. Some require foreign firms interested...
- White papers 2005-08-06
- Data Warehousing For Construction Equipment Management
- Equipment logistics, maintenance, and repair are important aspects of construction equipment management. A well-managed equipment fleet helps reduce downtime, as well as total maintenance and repair costs. With quickly growing fleets of equipment, large contractors tend to divert the maintenance and repair of equipment from equipment managers to project managers....
- White papers 2006-07-28
- Pricing With Predictable Risk: The Case of Copper
- The relationship between the North American copper price and specific components of the behaviour of the copper price on the generally more competitive London Metal Exchange LME is empirically examined in order to evaluate whether and to what extent LME prices and their components played a role in the determination...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Empirical Analysis of Competitive Pricing Strategies With Complementary Product Lines
- The authors build an econometric model of a household's purchase incidence and brand choice decisions in complementary product categories to account for cross-category dependence in demand. Complementarity is modeled as the additional utility that a household derives from the joint consumption of brands in complementary categories. The authors estimate the...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Pricing Models for Online Advertising: CPM Versus CPC
- Trade press articles highlight that there is little consensus between advertisers and websites publishers on the appropriate pricing model for Internet advertising. The most popular pricing models are, impression based CPM and performance based CPC. With the former, publishers are compensated based on the number of impressions shown at their...
- White papers 2005-01-04
- Mutual Funds That Invest in Private Equity?: An Analysis of Labour-Sponsored Investment Funds
- This paper considers the structure, governance and performance of a unique class of mutual funds that receives capital only from individuals, and reinvests this contributed capital in private companies, as opposed to traditional mutual funds that invest in publicly traded companies. One considers the particular class of mutual funds known...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- A Lightweight Project-Management Environment for Small Novice Teams
- The success of a software-development project depends on the technical competence of the development team, the quality of the tools it uses, and the project-management decisions it makes during the software lifecycle. New requirements, tight delivery schedules and developer turnaround present the team with challenges that need to be addressed...
- White papers 2003-03-31
- Cyberinfrastructure Whitepaper: Alberta's Research Infrastructure
- Ground-breaking research of the 21st Century depends on the sustained provision of a comprehensive CyberInfrastructure CI. Nations around the world have established CI as a priority, recognizing it as essential to remaining competitive in the global research arena. Largely supported by governments, nations are making significant monetary investments in CI...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Provincial Preferences in Private Equity
- This paper studies the frequency with which private equity investors and entrepreneurs are located in different provinces. It presents descriptive statistics that show the existence of a strong provincial preference for domestic investing. For all types of investors and entrepreneurial firms, in terms of the numbers of investments (13,729 transactions),...
- White papers 2003-09-08
- RTS Games as Test-Bed for Real-Time AI Research
- This article motivates AI research in the area of real-time strategy RTS games and describes the road-map and the current status of the ORTS project whose goals are to implement an RTS game programming environment and to build AI systems that eventually can outperform human experts in this popular and...
- White papers 2003-10-06
- The Extent of Venture Capital Exits: Evidence From Canada and the US
- This paper considers the issue of when venture capitalists VCs make a partial, as opposed to a full exit, for the full range of exit vehicles. A full exit for an IPO involves a sale of all of the venture capitalist's holdings within one year of the IPO; a partial...
- White papers 2001-02-19
- Fair Market Valuation Form
- This is a template for gift in kind fair market valuation form. The purpose of this report is to establish and verify a Fair Market Value of the items for purpose of issuing a Charitable Tax Receipt.
- Tools & templates 2006-04-05
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- A Stamp of Recognition for the University of Alberta's Centenary.
- OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Mar 4, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- On March 7th, 2008, Canada Post will pay tribute to the University of Alberta's centenary by issuing a domestic rate (52-cent) stamp. The creation of the University of Alberta U of A was closely tied ...
- Research articles 2008-03-04
- William S. Hein & Co. (Buffalo, NY) has taken over the publication and archive operations for three legal journals, including: Alberta Law Review, a quarterly produced by the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB).
- William S. Hein & Co. (Buffalo, NY) has taken over the publication and archive operations for three legal journals, including: Alberta Law Review, a quarterly produced by the University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB); North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, produced twice a year by the...
- Research articles 2003-06-30
- University of Alberta's Faculty of Science.(RECOGNITION / RECONNAISANCE)
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Margaret-Ann Armour, FCIC, O.C. associate dean of diversity with the University of Alberta's Faculty of Science, was hand-picked as the Alberta Science and Technology ASTech Leadership Foundation Special Award winner at the 18th annual ASTech Awards Gala held in Calgary, AB,...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
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