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Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia, Vol. 22, Issue 1

2014

ILONA BAUMANE-VITOLINA. Conceptualising the Resource Based View for Innovation Research and Measurment in Small and Medium Enterprises ; VIESTURS PAULS KARNUPS. Latvian and Turkish Economic Relations 1918-1940 ; GREGORY OLEVSKY. Functioning of Latvian manufacturing: up the stairs Which Lead Down ; LEONARDO PATACCINI, ELENA KINZHEBAEVA. Structural Reforms in Emerging Economies: Argentina and Russia through the Latvian Mirror ; INESE KALNIŅA. The Council of Europe and the Protection of National Minorities

Size, fungibility, and the strength of lobbying organizations

2017

Available online: 12 January 2017 How can a small special interest group successfully get an inefficient transfer at the expense of a much larger group with many more resources available for lobbying? We consider a simple model of agenda setting where two groups of different size lobby a politician over a transfer from one group to the other, and the group which sets the agenda can choose the size of the proposed transfer. The groups have resources which are used to pay the politician and to overcome the public goods problem within the group. Our key result is that which group prevails in the agenda setting game depends crucially on whether the transfers can also be used to pay the politici…

Discrimination by microcredit officers: Theory and evidence on disability in Uganda

2015

This paper studies the relationship between a microfinance institution (MFI) and its loan officers when officers discriminate against a particular group of micro-entrepreneurs. Using survey data from Uganda, we provide evidence that loan officers are more biased than other employees against disabled micro-entrepreneurs. In line with the evidence, we build an agency model of a non-profit MFI and a biased loan officer in charge of granting loans. Since incentive schemes are costly and the MFI's budget is limited, the MFI faces a trade-off between combating discrimination and granting loans. We show that the optimal incentive premium is a non-decreasing function of the MFI's budget. Moreover, …

Byproduct production of minor metals: Threat or opportunity for the development of clean technologies? The PV sector as an illustration

2013

Abstract Today, the fight against global warming and the coming hydrocarbon exhaustion involve a drastic increase of clean energies. These technologies resort to many minor metals which are byproduct of major metals. We will take the definition of Hageluken and Mesker (2010, Complex Life Cycles of Precious and Special Metals. In: Edition Thomas E. Graedel, Ester van der Voet (Eds.), Strungmann Forum Report, Linkages of Sustainability, MIT Press) to show precisely what minor metals are: “[they are] metals that have relatively low production or usage, which occur in low ore concentrations, are regarded as rare, or are not traded at major public exchanges”. We will analyze the byproduct status…

When Financial Economics Influences Physics: The Role of Econophysics

2018

This paper aims at analyzing the unexpected influence of Financial economics on Physics. The rise of Econophysics, a fundamentally new approach in finance, suggests that the influence between the two disciplines becomes less unilateral than in the past. Methodological debates emerging in Econophysics led physicists to acknowledge that dealing with financial complex systems contributed to a wider modelling of their field. The approach of econophysicists suggests that physicists might try to conceptualize physical phenomena by integrating elements they faced with in Financial economics, and more generally in Economics. Surprisingly, many of econophysicists’ argumentations have some methodolog…

Taceoceosu bichǝwǝ

1933

Apskats par izglītības politiku Sibīrijā. Teksts nanaju (goldu) valodā (latīņu rakstībā).

U.I.R.D.A. – Unbuilt Italian Rationalism Digital Archive

2018

For twenty years, the architecture of Italian rationalism through the digital modelling has been investigated. Very often, the production of a model and the consequent representation of tridimensional views, in many case studies, as outcome of the research on architecture have been considered. Actually, the digital model, intended as a critical tool, has to be conceived as a ‘starting point' for graphic analysis of architecture and not as the outcome. Indeed, it is associated to other graphics, sometimes not ‘deducted' from the model, useful for the understanding/translation of architecture. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation, which is often c…

Experiencia de marca minorista omnicanal: desarrollo de una escala para su medición y modelización de sus antecedentes y consecuencias

2017

La tesis doctoral “Experiencia de marca minorista omnicanal: desarrollo de una escala para su medición y modelización de sus antecedentes y consecuencias” se basa en el análisis y estudio de la experiencia de marca minorista omnicanal, investigando su medición y analizando cuáles son sus antecedentes, así como en qué medida este constructo afecta a otras variables vinculadas con la relación entre el consumidor y la marca. La tesis se ha estructurado en cuatro bloques. Un primer bloque introductorio, donde se justifica el interés de la investigación y se exponen tanto los objetivos generales como los objetivos específicos de la misma. El segundo bloque, que se corresponde con el marco teóric…

Epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma of the minor salivary glands: a case report

2018

La producción científica sobre distribución comercial en España, 1990-2000

2002

Este trabajo presenta una revisión bibliográfica de la investigación académica sobre distribución comercial publicada en España en el horizonte temporal de 1990 a 2000. Tras una revisión de los trabajos sobre el estado de la cuestión de la investigación en marketing, y las aportaciones más específicas en el campo de la distribución comercial, presentamos la metodología y los principales resultados de la revisión de un número de trabajos procedentes de las publicaciones más relevantes en el campo del marketing. Se extraen conclusiones sobre el carácter científico de los trabajos, los grupos de investigación, la metodología empleada y el contenido de los trabajos y, finalmente, se proponen lí…