American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (February 2011): 1–36 http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/mic.3.1.1 Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration† By Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison* This paper develops a new approach to testing for strategic entry deterrence and applies it to the behavior of pharmaceutical incumbents before patent expiration. It examines a cross section of markets, determining whether behavior
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A Brain-Friendly Guide Head First PMP Project Management What will you learn from this book? Head First PMP offers complete coverage of The PMBOK® Guide principles in a way that’s engaging, not tedious. This book helps you prepare for the certification exam with a unique method that goes beyond answers to specific questions and makes you think about the big picture of project management. By putting project management concepts into context, you will be able to understand, remember, and apply them—not
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH Instructional Goals 1. To generate interest in research for the students by driving home the point that successful managerial problem solving is nothing other than understanding and analyzing the situation at hand, which is what research is all about. 2. To help students differentiate between research‐based problem solving and “going by gut‐feeling”, the latter of which might sometimes help to solve problems in the short term, but might lead to systemic long‐term adverse consequences
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[pic] GAUHATI UNIVERSITY A training report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of the Bachelor of Business Administration (Industry Integrated) 3rd Semester, Gauhati University on “CUSTOMER BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS INSURANCE PRODUCTS” AT METLIFE INDIA VISAKHAPANTAM [pic] Under Organisation Guidance Of: Under Institutional Guidance Of: Mr. K.V.R. Murthi Mr. Hari Krishna
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LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS AND WAGE INEQUALITY WINFRIED KOENIGER, MARCO LEONARDI, and LUCA NUNZIATA* The authors investigate how labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulations, and minimum wages have affected the evolution of wage inequality among male workers. Results of estimations using data on institutions in eleven OECD countries indicate that changes in labor market institutions can account for much of the change in wage inequality between 1973 and 1998
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Sustainability of BMT financing for Developing Micro-enterprises Widiyanto b. Mislan Cokro1 Abdul Ghafar b. Ismail2 School School of Economics Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, 43600 Selangor D.E., Malaysia E-mail : agibab@ukm.my This draft, February 2008 Abstract The aim of this study is to analyze the sustainability of Islamic micro-financing for developing micro-enterprises (ME). We use the sample of Baitul Mal Wat Tamwil (BMT), as Islamic microfinance institution in Indonesia. Two
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ACKNOWLEGEMENT: Apart from our efforts, the success of any project depends largely on the encouragement and guidelines of many others. We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the people who have been instrumental in the successful completion of this project. We would like to show our greatest appreciation to Mr. Shakeel Awan. We can’t say thank you enough for his tremendous support and help. We feel motivated and encouraged every time we attend his class. Without his encouragement
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Nutzungsbedingungen zu vervielfältigen, mit denen die Nutzerin/der Nutzer sich durch die erste Nutzung einverstanden erklärt. zbw Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Terms of use: The ZBW grants you, the user, the non-exclusive right to use the selected work free of charge, territorially unrestricted and within the time limit of the term of the property rights according to the terms specified at → http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen By the first use
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Table of Contents Contents 01. Introduction 2 1.1. Research Problem 3 1.2. Research Questions 4 1.3. Research Objectives 4 02. Literature review 4 2.1 Define career development 4 2.2 Define professional development 4 2.3 Define Smartphone 4 2.4 Theories applied 5 2.5 Key Literature Review 5 2.6 Conceptual Model 10 2.7 Hypothesis 10 03. Methodology 11 3.1 Problem statement 12 3.2 Research objectives 12 3.3 Population and samples 13 3.4 Data collection Methods 14 3.5 Questionnaire
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1 EFFICIENT MARKETS HYPOTHESIS Andrew W. Lo To appear in L. Blume and S. Durlauf, The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, 2007. New York: Palgrave McMillan. The efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) maintains that market prices fully reflect all available information. Developed independently by Paul A. Samuelson and Eugene F. Fama in the 1960s, this idea has been applied extensively to theoretical models and empirical studies of financial securities prices, generating considerable
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