This article adds technology choice to a free-entry Cournot model with linear demand and constant marginal costs. Firms can choose from a discrete set of technologies. This simple framework yields non-existence of equilibrium, existence of multiple equilibria and equilibria in which ex-ante identical ̄rms choose di®erent technologies as possible outcomes. I provide a full characterization of th...

The Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank (PCEDT) is a new syntactically annotated Czech-English parallel resource. The Penn Treebank has been translated to Czech, and its annotation automatically transformed into dependency annotation scheme. The dependency annotation of Czech is done from plain text by automatic procedures. A small subset of corresponding Czech and English sentences has be...

JEL Classification: K42, L13, O17.

In this paper, we explore a conceptual resource for Chinese nominal phrases, which allows multi-dependency and distinction between dependency and the corresponding exact relation. We also provide an ILP-based method to learn mapping rules from training data, and use the rules to analyze new nominal phrases.

This study explores the resource dependency and relational exchange theories of understanding firms’ participation in e-procurement, and seeks to determine the degree to which the resource dependency theory variables — supply importance, supply complexity, supply market dynamism, and availability of alternatives — affect information exchange and operational linkages, the relational exchange the...

JEL Classification Numbers: G100, G120

JEL classification: C51 C52 G11

We present a gold standard annotation of syntactic dependencies in the English Web Treebank corpus using the Stanford Dependencies standard. This resource addresses the lack of a gold standard dependency treebank for English, as well as the limited availability of gold standard syntactic annotations for informal genres of English text. We also present experiments on the use of this resource, bo...

 Trade liberalization is often the core attention of foreign economic strategies in developing countries. Findings in the literature confirm a significant effect of free trade on developing economies through which the economic sectors benefit from technology transfer and spillovers and increasing production capacities and input productivity leading to international competitiveness. On the other...