Technology of the Preferences: Linking Consumption Expenditures to Value Added with Minimal Information

Technology of the preferences: linking consumption expenditures to value added with minimal information

The combination of consumption data from expenditure surveys with information contained in IO tables is a crucial step to structural change analysis. Herrendorf et al. (2013) focus the attention on applying a consistent definition of commodities on both the household and production sides —i.e. estimation of utility and production functions— when connecting models with data in any multisector ge...

Added Value and Pricing with Information Technology

The Effect of Educational Expenditures on Added Value in Industrial Sector

The Effect of Educational Expenditures on Added Value in Industrial Sector K. Shahbaazi, Ph.D. M. Hassani, Ph.D. N. Shahbaazi Since 78% of the work force in Iranian industries consists of those holding a high school diploma or less, any investment in increasing this level of education could lead to an increase in the added value in the industrial sector. Analyses of the availabl...

Value Added: Processing Information with Argumentation

In this paper we describe an application based on a general approach towards modelling practical reasoning through defeasible argumentation. The purpose of the paper is to show how the incorporation of an argumentation component can add value to a collection of existing information agents. The example application is a system for reasoning about the treatment of a patient. An agent, called the D...

Determinants of Budgeted Information Technology Expenditures

Information technology expenditures vary across firms and across industries; however, very little empirical research has investigated the factors influencing the level of these expenditures. The object of this paper is to present theory and evidence of the determinants of corporate IT budgets. Using InformationWeek data, we find that budgeted IT expenditures are significantly influenced by the ...