The article examines the theoretical issues of implementation life cycle innovation and practical methods for assessing loss value intellectual property in enterprises market. method cost approach is disclosed, which assumes accounting costs reproduction assessed current prices, minus depreciation, as most effective property. Also considered are rates depreciation fixed assets industrial facili...

There is an urgent need for energy efficiency in buildings within the European framework, considering its environmental implications, and Europe’s energy dependence. Furthermore, the need for enhancing and increasing productivity in the building industry turns new technologies and building energy performance simulation environments into extremely interesting solutions towards rigorous analysis ...

The continuing depreciation of the dollar stands out as one of the big policy issues, it has started to impinge on U.S. monetary policy; it influences the chances for international commercial diplomacy, and it is enhancing the move toward European monetary integration. Above all it leaves most observers with a puzzle as to the causes of the ongoing depreciation. This paper will, of course, not ...

The degree of offshore outsourcing in the high-tech industries has increased rapidly in past decades. Because of this trend, economists have been debating whether offshore outsourcing is hollowing out U.S. high-tech firms’ core competencies in intangibles. To contribute to the debate, I first develop a forward-looking profit model and use Compustat dataset to measure the capital stock and depre...

In 2011, Switzerland announced a floor for the Swiss franc, and it immediately depreciated by 10 percent. Many argue that depreciations should not matter for Switzerland’s export basket because luxury brands and high value added products predominate, and these should compete on quality rather than price. We measure the sophistication of Swiss exports using Hausmann et al.’s (2007) and Kwan’s (2...

One of the most difficult problems in medicine is the correct estimation of the value of any new method of treatment which is not absolutely specific. Not only is enthusiasm liable to run riot at the incidence of a series of successful cases, but the reverse may also occur, and undue depreciation of the value of a useful method be engendered by an initial series of tmsuccessful cases.

This Economic Letter looks at the relationship among changes in the exchange rate value of the dollar and in import prices and overall consumer prices, with a particular focus on the current circumstances. It appears that the lower value of the dollar at this point is affecting U.S. prices less than it has historically.The reasons for the difference include changes in trading partners, changes ...

Using firm-level data from the manufacturing sector of Chile for the period 1995-2002, we examine whether access to finance increase the probability of exporting. To do that, we exploit information of firms ́ access to banking debt and changes in the real exchange rate (RER) to identify the causal effect of finance on exporting. This is an interesting setting given that the Chilean economy exper...

Many self-employed workers return to the wage and salaried sector of the labor market after some time. It is possible that the self-employment spell will lead to lower earnings or earnings growth upon return, due to depreciation of firm or sector-specific human capital. Using longitudinal data from the NLS, this paper examines the effects of spells of self-employment on the future wage and sala...

This paper proposes a measure to assess the monetary policy for a highly inflationary small open economy: Turkey. The empirical evidence suggests that positive innovations in the spread between the Central Bank’s interbank interest rate and the depreciation rate of the local currency mimic the properties of the tight monetary policy. These innovations, when they are positive, decrease income an...