Intermediation by aid agencies

Should refugees be given cigarettes by aid agencies?

Intermediation by Heterogeneous Oligopolists

In his book on “Market Microstructure” Spulber presented some strange results with respect to the impact of the substitutability parameter in an intermediation model with differentiated products and inputs. Intuitively, effects in the product and the input market should be similar: if firms become more homogeneous, they loose market power, which should yield lower bid-ask-spreads and higher out...

Financial Intermediation

The savings/investment process in capitalist economies is organized around financial intermediation, making them a central institution of economic growth. Financial intermediaries are firms that borrow from consumer/savers and lend to companies that need resources for investment. In contrast, in capital markets investors contract directly with firms, creating marketable securities. The prices o...

Knowledge Intermediation

IntroductIon Since knowledge is increasingly regarded as the central source of competitive advantage, a " cognitive " interpretation of business activities becomes vital. With regard to this, the flourishing field of knowledge management (KM) provides useful insights into approaches to a systematic and explicit management of knowledge. Furthermore, the development of Internet technologies raise...

Marginal Assessment of Crowns by the Aid of Parallel Radiography

Introduction: Marginal adaptation is the most critical item in long-term prognosis of single crowns. This study aimed to assess the marginal quality as well asthe discrepancies in marginal integrity of some PFM single crowns of posterior teeth by employing parallel radiography in Shiraz Dental School, Shiraz, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive study, parallel radiographies were taken from 200 f...