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- Buybacks of Domestic Debt in Public Debt Management
- This paper presents a model in which a fiscal stabilization is announced under asymmetry of information between the government and the private investors. The government could be of two types: a dry type and a wet type, according to the amount of spending cuts it decides to make. Private investors...
- White papers 2000-10-25
- Public GM Innovations, Safety Regulation, And..... Results?
- Disputes continue to flare over Genetically Modified GM crops, and their potential to enhance livelihoods in agricultural communities in developing nations. Benefits have been documented for a few GM crops, especially insect-resistant cotton. However, official permission to plant GM seeds on a commercial scale has not been granted in most...
- White papers 2005-03-11
- Public GM Innovations, Safety Regulation, And?.. Results?
- Disputes continue to flare over Genetically Modified GM crops, and their potential to enhance livelihoods in agricultural communities in developing nations. Benefits have been documented for a few GM crops, especially insect-resistant cotton. However, official permission to plant GM seeds on a commercial scale has not been granted in most...
- White papers 2005-03-11
- Towards An Improved E-Procurement Quality (EPQ) Measurement Scale
- This paper presents the findings of a replication study seeking to validate and improve an existing e-procurement quality scale. Data collected from users of an e-procurement system at a Dutch university are compared with original data from a number of UK organisations. Factor analysis is carried out in order to...
- White papers 2006-03-07
- The Construction Of 'Communities Of Practice' In The Management Of Innovation
- The notion of 'Community of practice' has achieved prominence in the context of wider debates on knowledge, learning and innovation in organizations. It has played a crucial role in highlighting the extent to which knowledge and learning is situated in collaborative work practices and has provided an important counterpoint to...
- White papers 2003-03-27
- Forecasting Manufacturing Output Growth Using Firm-Level Survey Data
- Traditionally forecasts of macroeconomic aggregates are extracted from prospective qualitative survey data by relating official data on the aggregate to both the proportion of survey respondents who are "Optimists" and the proportion who are "Pessimists". But there is no reason to focus on these proportions to the exclusion of other...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Competing Models Of Firm Profitability
- In this paper, the author looks at four models of firm profitability: two taken from Industrial Organization, one from Finance, and one from the Economics of Exhaustible Resources. Only one predicts that there will be a positive relationship between firm profitability and the structure of the market in which the...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Survival Of The Small Firm And The Entrepreneur Under Demand And Efficiency Uncertainty
- The objective of this paper is to offer an answer to the question: why do some entrepreneurs wish to own another firm in the future after having closed an unsuccessful one? We first show this question is relevant because making use of a sample of entrepreneurs in the UK who...
- White papers 2004-01-30
- History Matters for Import Demand: The Implications of Match-Searching in International Trade
- This paper investigates the implications of imperfect information and matching/searching for international trade theory. AN illustrative model is developed where firms find such partners by a search through successive matches. The consequences include linking today's import demand patterns to past changes in costs, protection and interest rates. Today's policy decisions...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Connecting Employee Representatives' Response at European Level?: A Comparative Study of Multinational Subsidiaries in Europe in Two Sectors
- Discussion regarding the extent to which European Works Councils EWCs can be considered as trans-national forum fostering progress towards employee cross-national interests at the European level has been at the forefront of the industrial relations research agenda in the last decade. This paper explores the factors which may contribute to...
- White papers 2005-06-09
- Benchmarking and Its Implications for Employment Relations in the UK and Germany
- This paper argues that benchmarking application is not simply a matter of technical expedience by organisational actors but a context-dependent tool whose design and application is influenced by its business environment. Despite cross-country similarities in benchmarking this empirical investigation, focusing on two German and two British MNCs with subsidiaries in...
- White papers 2005-06-13
- All Benchmarkers Now?: Benchmarking and the 'Europeanisation' of Industrial Relations
- This paper traces the origins of benchmarking as a management tool, before going on to specify the role that benchmarking is playing at the three principal levels of the EU: the Euro-company, the EU sector and the Community itself. The reasons why benchmarking has become so prominent as a 'quasi...
- White papers 2002-02-20
- Static Hedging of Multivariate Derivatives by Simulation
- The paper proposes an approximate static hedging procedure for multivariate derivatives. The hedging portfolio is composed of statically held simple univariate options, optimally weighted minimizing the variance of the difference between the target claim and the approximate replicating portfolio. The method uses simulated paths to estimate the weights of the...
- White papers 2003-09-02
- Fair Value Financial Reporting by Pension Funds: UK Evidence
- The propensity of pension fund managers to both voluntarily adopt and retain fair value financial reporting is posited to be related to factors related to the organizational form of the sponsoring employer. Adoption incentives of posited to reflect proprietary costs, whereas equivalent incentives facing managers of government and not-for-profit ('GNP')...
- White papers 2000-12-15
- The GATT and Gradualism
- This paper shows how the institutional rules imposed on its signatories by the GATT created a strategic incentive for countries to liberalize gradually. Free trade can never be achieved if punishment for deviation from a trade agreement is limited to a 'withdrawal of equivalent concessions.' Trade liberalization must be gradual...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Executive Compensation, Incentives and Refocusing
- It has been suggested that stock-based forms of executive remuneration may be necessary to motivate managers to downsize their companies. This paper examines the link between executive remuneration and refocusing using a dataset on voluntary divestments by UK firms over the period 1985 to 1993. Divestment is analyzed using both...
- White papers 2002-08-07
- The Impact Of Network Downtime On Business Today
- A network unavailable for even a relatively short period of time can represent a substantial loss to a business. While the economic consequences of network downtime are a primary concern, the exact costs of downtime are rarely quantified. The cost of downtime is subjective and invariably contains a wide range...
- White papers 2007-05-01
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- Premier Automotive Group to collaborate with University of Warwick in multi-million pound programme.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 November 2001-UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK: Premier Automotive Group to collaborate with University of Warwick in multi-million pound programme C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04112001 London -- Agreement has been reached for a long-term collaboration between the Warwick Manufacturing Group at...
- Research articles 2001-11-02
- 20 leading European aerospace organisations gather at University of Warwick to devise ways of cutting 30% of the cost and time of developing new aircraft.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 March 2000-UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK: 20 leading European aerospace organisations gather at University of Warwick to devise ways of cutting 30 of the cost and time of developing new aircraft C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31032000 Twenty of Europe's leading...
- Research articles 2000-03-31
- University of Nottingham and University of Warwick collaborate with GE Aviation to develop innovative technology
- NOTTINGHAM, England -- GE Aviation today launch their University Technology Strategic Partnership UTSP with the University of Nottingham and the University of Warwick called SMARTPACT. SMARTPACT will deliver revolutionary research in electrical power and actuation technology and lay the foundation for more far-reaching innovation over the longer-term.
- Research articles 2007-09-27
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