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- An Economist's Guide to Digital Music
- This guide discusses the impact of digitalization on the music industry. It relies on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates the developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and describes new business models as well...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Global Versus Local: The Financing Of Foreign Direct Investment
- In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a Foreign Direct Investment FDI involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital transfer. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of financing an international investment...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- The Impact Of Non-Profit Taxes On Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of taxes other than income taxes on both the level and the location of FDI Foreign Direct Investment using a large panel of German multinationals. With regard to the level of FDI the results confirm an impact of the cost of...
- White papers 2006-04-26
- What Determines The Level Of IPO Gross Spreads?: Underwriter Profits And The Cost Of Going Public
- This paper addresses three empirical findings of the literature on Initial Public Offerings IPO: Why do investment banks earn positive profits in a competitive market?; Why do banks receive lower gross spreads in Venture Capitalist VC backed than in non-VC backed IPOs?; Why is underpricing more pronounced in VC than...
- White papers 2006-08-10
- Does Mobility Increase The Productivity Of Inventors?: New Evidence From A Quasi-Experimental Design
- Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism to transfer tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far neglected to address the question of the consequence of a move on inventive performance. This paper improves on the current R&D (Research & Development) literature by presenting a quasi-experimental...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Bounds Testing Approach: An Examination Of Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, And Growth Relationships
- This paper examines the long-run impact of foreign direct investment and trade on economic growth in Ghana. Using an augmented Aggregate Production Function APF growth model, the bounds testing (ARDL [AutoRegressive Distributed Lag]) approach is applied to co-integration which is more appropriate for estimation in small sample studies. The data...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Do Institutions Matter For FDI?: A Comparative Analysis For The MENA Countries
- The paper analyses the underpinning factors of foreign direct investments towards the MENA countries. Our main interpretative hypothesis is based on the significant role of the quality of institutions to attract FDI Foreign Direct Investment. In MENA experience the growth of FDI flows proved to be notably inferior to that...
- White papers 2007-03-28
- Impact Of Intellectual Property Protection, Domestic Market Condition And R&D Expenditure On Foreign Direct Investment Inflow
- The focus of this paper is to highlight and provide an empirical investigation of the impact for the first five years period after the implementation of TRIPS agreement. This study used a cross-country data for the mixed periods (1996-2000) to see of the impact of selected designed institutional factor viz....
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Reform-Creating Regional Trade Agreements And Foreign Direct Investment: Applications For East Asia
- The spread of Regional Trade Agreements RTAs is strongly motivated by the desire for more Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows. The net benefits from freer capital flows are expected to trigger a domino effect of new regionalism. However, this is still an empirical question to be tested, especially for the...
- White papers 2006-11-18
- Corruption And Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Analysis
- The present paper adds a further link to the chain of studies on corruption and capital flows. It is argued here that not only does corruption reduce foreign direct investment inflows to a country, but also different forms of corruption have separately identifiable effects on the variable in question. Using...
- White papers 2004-03-12
- Regional Tax Coordination And Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper analyses the effects of a regionally coordinated corporate income tax in a model with three active countries, one of which is not part of the union, and a globally mobile firm. It shows that regional tax coordination can lead to two types of welfare gain. First, for investments...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Spatial Data Management For Virtual Product Development
- In the automotive and aerospace industry, millions of technical documents are generated during the development of complex engineering products. Particularly, the universal application of Computer Aided Design CAD from the very first design to the final documentation created the need for transactional, concurrent, reliable, and secure data management. The huge...
- White papers 2003-04-10
- Entrepreneurship By Circumstances And Abilities
- Prior studies have found that job dissatisfaction and self-efficacy are significant factors influencing individuals' entrepreneurial propensity. The argument is that individuals who are dissatisfied with their jobs are more likely to seek alternative mode of employment such as self-employment. In other words, poor job circumstances may push individuals to leave...
- White papers 2006-10-26
- The Key Drivers Of Globalisation And International Marketing
- Although the windows of local McDonald's outlets are often smashed by its opponents, the question of who is responsible for the globalisation and who is actually driving it forward remains regularly unanswered: Is it the international companies, which simply for their own benefit expand their activities to cover all the...
- White papers 2005-02-16
- A Computational Model For Inventory Management And Planning
- The objective of the study presented in this paper is to determine the factors of the optimal level of merchandizing inventory. This study is based on a mathematical model. The results revealed some interesting findings. The most important conclusion is that the 'Usage of Material' or the Sales Volume is...
- White papers 2006-10-30
- Product Variety and Competitive Pricing in Consumer Goods Markets
- Manufacturer prices and the retail price are functions of the degree of variety offered by manufacturers. Given different choices in variety, equilibrium prices are calculated. This paper shows that manufacturers can raise prices and mark-ups if they increase variety and if competitors do not follow. In a more realistic scenario...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Model-Based Tools for the Integration of Design and Diagnosis Into a Common Process - A Project Report
- The growing importance of on-board diagnosis for automobiles demands for a close integration of diagnostic tasks in the entire design process. This report describes work carried out to date within the European project Integrated Design Process for onboard Diagnosis? IDD. It presents an analysis of the current design process and...
- White papers 2004-04-15
- Bilateral Effective Tax Rates And Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper computes effective marginal and average tax rates that account for bilateral aspects of taxation and, therefore, vary across country-pairs and years. These tax rates serve to estimate the impact of corporate taxation on outbound stocks of bilateral Foreign Direct Investment FDI among OECD countries between 1991 and 2002....
- White papers 2006-03-01
Additional Resources
- University Clinic of Munich Deploys Cost-Effective Communications Server Leveraging SeeBeyond ICAN Suite
- SeeBeyond (NASDAQ: SBYN), provider of the world's first fully integrated suite for the deployment of advanced integration and composite application development solutions, today announced that the Clinic of the University of Munich, Klinikum der Universitat Munchen, has successfully migrated components of its infrastructure to the open-source Linux operating system leveraging...
- Research articles 2004-07-14
- Munich Re America Hosts 2007 Casualty Claims Seminar at the University of Wisconsin to Address Projected Shortage of Experienced Claims Adjusters
- PRINCETON, N.J. -- A total of 62 claims adjusters, representing 26 different insurance companies, attended the 2007 Casualty Claims Seminar hosted by Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. The seminar, prepared and presented by Munich Re America in conjunction with The University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Business and the New...
- Research articles 2007-07-23
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