Sökning: "heterogeneous goods"
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6. Essays on Trade, Technology and the Organization of Firms
Sammanfattning : "Endogenous Sunk Costs, Exporting and Heterogeneous Firms" Empirical evidence shows that R&D spending is highly correlated with firm productivity and highly concentrated among large firms. This paper develops a model of quality competition with heterogeneous firms that can explain these patterns. The model makes two new predictions. LÄS MER
7. Agricultural land and landscapes : assessing the resource situation and developing an alternative system of agri-environmental payments : models with applications in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The agricultural land provision of private and public goods is studied by inter-disciplinary approaches on the supply from a resource economics perspective and on efficient policy measures from a welfare economic perspective. The socially optimal production of landscape public goods is derived theoretically by introducing the concept of quantitative hectares where measures of area and biodiversity etc. LÄS MER
8. Bitter divisions: inequality, identity and cooperation
Sammanfattning : Overriding inequality Group identity, beliefs and cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas Heterogeneity reduces cooperation. Understanding why can help mitigate the problem. As salient interpersonal differences reduce expectations of favourable behaviours on behalf of others, emphasising common identities should increase cooperation. LÄS MER
9. Enabling engineering support for integrated product and service innovation
Sammanfattning : The increasing need for mobility in society alongside an intensifying concern for sustainability challenges today’s aviation industry. For companies, a Product-Service Systems (PSS) perspective puts emphasis on proving value to customers by offering a combination of hardware and services over an extended life cycle. LÄS MER
10. Team based innovation : early problem setting activities in engineering design
Sammanfattning : Manufacturing firms’ attention to innovations and the innovation process has during the last decade gained in intensity of interest. One trigger for such an interest is that these companies have extended their business models towards an integrated product-service approach, where the introduction of a service perspective in early development challenges the traditionally temporary formative nature of processes. LÄS MER
