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Опубликовано на портале: 17-03-2008
Ronald Philip Dore
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987, 264 с.


Опубликовано на портале: 28-11-2006
Uta Gerhardt
USA: Cambridge University Press, 2002
The American sociologist Talcott Parsons was often accused of being an overly
abstract, even apolitical thinker, remote in Harvard's ivory tower. The controversial
Parsons, in fact, emulated his mentor, the venerable Max Weber, in at least two respects:
as a scholar he practised Wertfreiheit (scientific professionalism) and as a political
activist he worked for the preservation and expansion of democracy. Uta Gerhardt
traces this double commitment and links Parsons's scholarship to his politics. Utilizing
rich archival material, she examines four periods in Parsons's intellectual life
in the context of American history and society. From the New Deal and the rise of
German fascism to the Second World War, through the McCarthy era and the Civil Rights
movement, Parsons's overriding agenda was to develop both a sociological understanding
and a defense of the development of modern democracy.


Taxation in a Global Economy [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 25-01-2003
Andreas Haufler
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
In recent years the increasing international mobility of capital, firms and consumers
has begun to constrain tax policies in most OECD countries, playing a major role
in reforming national tax systems. Haufler uses the theory of international taxation
to consider the fundamental forces underlying this process, covering both factor
and commodity taxes, as well as their interaction. Topics include a variety of different
international tax avoidance strategies - capital flight, profit shifting in multinational
firms, and cross-border shopping by consumers. Situations in which tax competition
creates conflicting interests between countries are given particular consideration.
Haufler addresses the complex issue of coordination in different areas of tax policy,
with special emphasis on regional tax harmonization in the European Union. Also included
is a detailed introduction to recent theoretical literature.




Taxes and the Quality of Capital [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 30-08-2003
Austan Goolsbee
2003
This paper shows that tax policy toward investment, by changing the relative prices
of capital varieties, can have a direct effect on the quality of capital goods that
firms purchase. The empirical results indicate that this impact is economically important
and readily apparent in disaggregated data on farming, mining, and construction machinery.
The paper also applies a general method for aggregation using index number theory
which suggests that all of the investment increase generated by tax subsidies comes
from buying higher quality capital goods as opposed to buying a larger number of
capital goods. It shows, further, that the supply of capital is upward sloping with
an elasticity of about one. The tax induced quality changes documented in the paper
imply a tax distortion whose deadweight loss is neglected in the conventional literature
but whose magnitude indicates may represent a substantial efficiency cost from capital
taxation (or subsidy).

Опубликовано на портале: 30-08-2003
Lans Arij Bovenberg, Johan J. Graafland, Ruud A. de Mooij
2003
This paper employs MIMIC, an applied general equilibrium model of the Dutch economy,
to explore various tax cuts aimed at combating unemployment and raising labor supply.
MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical foundation detailed
description of Dutch labor-market institutions. We develop a small aggregate model
which contains the core of MIMIC, namely wage setting, job matching, labor supply
demand. In addition to illustrating the main economic mechanisms in MIMIC shows the
advantages of employing a larger, more disaggregated model that accounts for heterogeneity,
institutional details, and more economic mechanisms. Targeting in-work benefits at
the low skilled is the most effective way to cut economy-wide unemployment quality
and quantity of labor supply. Cuts in social security contributions paid by employers
and subsidies for hiring long-term unemployed reduce unskilled unemployment most
substantially. Tax cuts in the higher tax brackets boost the quantity and quality
of formal labor supply but are less effective in reducing unemployment and in raising
unskilled employment and female labor supply.

Опубликовано на портале: 11-12-2002
Morten Huse, Hans Landstrom
2002
Boards of directors and corporate governance debates have been highly focused in
the
business press and even in research, but few universities offer courses on these
topics. In this
paper a research and teaching model is introduced, and we will show some examples
of how such courses may be designed and how they relate to research. Examples are
given for executive courses, undergraduate courses and graduate courses. The paper
concludes by presenting the second international doctoral course on governance in
SMEs.


Опубликовано на портале: 16-06-2004
Ред.: Michael T. Brannick
Mahwah, N.J.: Lawerence Erlbaum Associates, 1997
В книгу включены работы авторов из разных стран, которые делятся своим как теоретическим,
так и практическим опытом командной работы. Затрагиваются темы по оценке и измерению
эффективности команд, принципов их создания, динамики развития отношений членов команды.

Опубликовано на портале: 30-11-2003
Paul Dorosh, Moataz El-Said, Hans Lofgren
2003
In Uganda, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, poverty is concentrated in
rural areas. Because agriculture
accounts for a large share of incomes for these households, policies and
external shocks that affect
agriculture, including shifts in world prices, changes in agricultural productivity,
and reductions in marketing
costs, may have significant effects on rural poverty. In this paper, we use a Computable
General Equilibrium
(CGE) model of the Ugandan economy, explicitly designed to capture regional
variations in agricultural
production and household incomes, to examine the implications of these policy changes
and shocks.
Simulation results suggest that a doubling of area planted to coffee (the government.s target) would increase rural consumption by less than 2.0 percent, because of an estimated 10 percent decline in the world price of robusta coffee and an 11.3 percent real exchange rate appreciation of the Ugandan shilling. Smaller productivity increases in food crops may have greater potential to raise rural incomes, provided that markets perform well and producer incentives are maintained. A five percent increase in agricultural productivity raises consumption by 1.3 to 2.1 percent among rural households and lowers food prices by 3.4 to 3.8 percent relative to the CPI, thus benefiting households with high food consumption shares. Reducing agricultural marketing margins by 30 percent leads to increases of 2.3 to 4.1 percent in consumption of farm households, with the largest gains in regions where consumption out of own production is lower.
Simulation results suggest that a doubling of area planted to coffee (the government.s target) would increase rural consumption by less than 2.0 percent, because of an estimated 10 percent decline in the world price of robusta coffee and an 11.3 percent real exchange rate appreciation of the Ugandan shilling. Smaller productivity increases in food crops may have greater potential to raise rural incomes, provided that markets perform well and producer incentives are maintained. A five percent increase in agricultural productivity raises consumption by 1.3 to 2.1 percent among rural households and lowers food prices by 3.4 to 3.8 percent relative to the CPI, thus benefiting households with high food consumption shares. Reducing agricultural marketing margins by 30 percent leads to increases of 2.3 to 4.1 percent in consumption of farm households, with the largest gains in regions where consumption out of own production is lower.


Опубликовано на портале: 31-12-2003
Laure Latruffe, Kelvin Balcombe, Katarzyna Zawalinska, Sophia Moissey Davidova
Durban, 2003
The technical and scale efficiency of Polish farms is analysed, using Data Envelopment
Analysis. Efficiency
differences are measured according to farm specialisation, in crop or livestock,
at two points in time during
transition, 1996 and 2000. The statistical variability of efficiency estimates is
investigated. The efficiency
results are reviewed in the light of confidence intervals provided by bootstrapping
and of a summary measure
introduced in this study ‘the coefficient of separation’. The inference
analysis suggests that farms might be
less efficient than revealed by the point estimates alone, and that they might not
be clearly different from
each other.


Опубликовано на портале: 01-02-2007
Carlota Perez
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002, 224 с.
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital presents a novel interpretation of the good and bad times in the economy, taking a long-term perspective and linking technology and finance in an original and convincing way.



Опубликовано на портале: 25-12-2002
Andrea Bonaccorsi, Paola Giuri, Francesca Pierotti
2001
The paper studies the relations between technological strategies and market success
of firms, through an empirical analysis of the commercial aero-engine industry since
1948 to 1997 detailed at the level of competition among single firms products. It
uses a multidimensional measure of technical progress through Data Envelopment Analysis
(DEA) for measuring technological performances of single products and firms and data
on sales of each product over time for representing market success. The paper confirms
the existence of heterogeneity of firms technological strategies and draws some main
conclusions with respect to strategies of convergence and divergence from the technological
frontier, first mover advantage and survival of inefficient products.


Опубликовано на портале: 05-01-2003
J. Stan Metcalfe
2003
This paper was prepared as a background document for the forthcoming World Industrial
Development report for UNIDO in 2001. While the link between technological knowledge
and economic development is difficult to unravel, nonetheless, technological disparities
play
an immensely important role in explaining the diversity of development experience.
Here we
explore recent advances in the study of innovation processes, viewed through two
different
lenses, neoclassical and evolutionary theories of the firms. The paper concludes
with a
discussion of the implications for innovation policy in developing economies. We
conclude
that a central task of policy is to create a rich ecology of organisational and institutional
support for the absorption of knowledge and the generation of innovative capabilities.


Опубликовано на портале: 30-10-2003
Charles Colby, A. Parasuraman
New York: Free Press, 2001
Conventional techniques for marketing technology products fail primarily because
marketers do not truly understand their customers. Do you know what customers really
think about your technology? Now, drawing on their award-winning research and case
studies ranging from America Online to the Discovery Channel, marketing experts A.
Parasuraman and Charles L. Colby demonstrate how the adoption of technology is influenced
by unique beliefs that do not apply to conventional products and services.
In the context of a general set of powerful techno-marketing strategies, Parasuraman
and Colby introduce "Technology Readiness" (TR), a groundbreaking concept that enables
you to measure and assess a customer's predisposition to adopt new technologies.
Employing their TR construct - a psychological amalgam of fears, hopes, desires,
and frustrations about technology - the authors identify five types of technology
customers: the highly optimistic and innovative "Explorers," the innovative yet cautious
"Pioneers," the uncertain "Skeptics" who need the benefits of technology proved,
the insecure "Paranoids," and the resistant "Laggards." Using this typology, you
can customize your technology strategies by combining insights from your context-specific
assessments with general marketing strategies presented in the book. Essential reading
in technology companies will be the chapter devoted to Parasuraman's Pyramid Model,
which explains the critical role technology plays in a marketing organization as
a link between employees, the organization, and the customer. Finally, the authors
have included a self-administered quiz so you can score your own Technology Readiness
and a chapter on the "Techno-Ready Marketing Audit" to provide a framework for taking
immediate action based on the precepts in this book
Знаете ли Вы, что потребители в действительности думают о Вашей технологии ? В своей книге известные маркетинговые специалисты А.Parasuraman и С.Colby демонстрируют как уникальные убеждения/мнения, которые не применимы для обычных товаров и услуг, влияют на то, будет ли технология принята потребителями. Авторы вводят понятие «готовность технологии» - концепцию, которая позволяет оценивать и измерять склонность потребителей к принятию технологии. Используя эту концепцию, они выделяют пять типов потребителей, для каждого из которых должна быть разработана индивидуальная стратегия. В книгу включен перечень вопросов, который позволит менеджерам фирм высокотехнологичного сектора определить «готовность» их технологий.
Знаете ли Вы, что потребители в действительности думают о Вашей технологии ? В своей книге известные маркетинговые специалисты А.Parasuraman и С.Colby демонстрируют как уникальные убеждения/мнения, которые не применимы для обычных товаров и услуг, влияют на то, будет ли технология принята потребителями. Авторы вводят понятие «готовность технологии» - концепцию, которая позволяет оценивать и измерять склонность потребителей к принятию технологии. Используя эту концепцию, они выделяют пять типов потребителей, для каждого из которых должна быть разработана индивидуальная стратегия. В книгу включен перечень вопросов, который позволит менеджерам фирм высокотехнологичного сектора определить «готовность» их технологий.


Television culture [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 18-02-2006
John Fiske
London: Routledge, 1988, cерия "Studies in communication", 400 с.
Книга известного американского исследователя популярной культуры Джона Фиска представляет собой критический культурологический анализ разных аспектов телевидения. Используя методологию Ролана Барта, Михаила Бахтина и множество других теоретических подходов, Фиск рассматривает такие разные темы как семиотические характеристики телезвезд (на примере Мадонны), гендерные аспекты телесериалов, социальные функции телевикторин, роль зрителей в интерпретации и "дописывании" телепродукции. Фиск всячески подчеркивает активную роль аудитории, в частности, с помощью одного из своих ключевых понятий "производительные тексты" (producerly texts) - т.е. тексты, в создании которых прямым или косвенным образом принимает участие аудитория. Книга написана простым, увлекательным языком, доступным для студентов.



Опубликовано на портале: 29-11-2003
Steen Koekebakker, Gudbrand Lien
2002
Empirical evidence suggests that agricultural futures price movements have fat-tailed
distributions and exhibit sudden and unexpected price jumps. There is also evidence
that the
volatility of futures prices contains a term structure depending on both calendar-time
and time to
maturity. This paper extends Bates (1991) jump-diffusion option pricing model by
including both
seasonal and maturity effects in volatility. An in-sample fit to market option prices
on wheat
futures shows that our model outperforms previous models considered in the literature.
A
numerical example illustrates the economic significance of our results for option
valuation.

