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Mapping Products on Social Tagging Networks: Insights for Demand Forecast and Positioning (Social Tag Maps)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Social tagging is a new way to share and categorize content, allowing users to express their thoughts, perceptions, and feelings with respect to concepts such as products or brands with their own keywords, “tags.” With this system, products can be connected through user-generated keywords, and the rich associative information in social tagging networks provides marketers with opportunities to infe ...
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The Causal Effect of Work on Health (CEWH)

Start date: Mar 19, 2013, End date: May 26, 2015,

"The nature of work has changed remarkably in the last decades. This implies new risks and challenges for people at work. Although many studies have investigated the correlation between work and health, the causal effect of work on health is not yet well established. This project aims to identify the causal effect of work on health by exploiting information from several natural experiments in a re ...
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Determinants and dynamics of the obesity epidemic (bodyweightdynamics)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This application proposes a research project to be conducted during a 24 month stay at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The scientific host in charge is Prof. Eddy van Doorslaer. It aims to investigate recent dynamics and changes in the distribution of body weight and determinants thereof - using data from China. The knowledge that can be gained from the proposed research is relevant for European ...
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Optimal Networks for Train Integration Management across Europe (ON-TIME)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"The aim of this project is a step-change in railway capacity by reducing delays and improving traffic fluidity. This will be achieved by a partnership between railway industry experts, system integrators, small dynamic knowledge led companies and academic researchers.There are 4 levels of work:L1: High level principles, definitions and requirements to direct researchL2: Methods and algorithms der ...
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Risk Management and Risk Reporting (RISK)

Start date: Sep 15, 2009, End date: Sep 14, 2013,

"The financial markets turbulence in recent months serves to highlight the key roles of risk management and risk reporting in both private and public sectors. The rapid innovations of financial structured products and the difficulty in valuing and reporting them present a huge challenge to both investors and risk regulators. The developments of Basel II and Insolvency II regulatory frameworks have ...
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Real-time Assortment Customization for Products with Dynamic Content: Theory and an Application to Interactive TV (AssortmentCustomize)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

In many industries, firms give consumers more choice options than they can choose, in a phenomenon that has been described as the paradox of choice. When products are created and updated very rapidly, the problem is worse e.g., consumers often have hundreds of cable TV programs to choose from. This project proposes a method to optimally customize the assortment of products shown to consumers accor ...
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Understanding the health and labour relationship (healthwork)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Most European countries face similar challenges in terms of ageing of their populations and reductions in the ratios of active to retired over the coming decades. Increasing labour force participation is a widely known policy goal. Delaying retirement is also thought of as a potential solution. However, a substantial share of the working age population in the industrialized world suffers from a lo ...
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Explaining international adoption of high-technology products with indirect network effects (Int Diff)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

This project studies the international adoption process of high technology products with indirect network effects. The term indirect network effect refers to the increased utility of a hardware product as the availability of software increases. In turn, the provision of new software products is encouraged as more and more people adopt the hardware product (see e.g. Cottrell and Koput, 1998). Examp ...
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The effect of international ties on launch sequence and launch pricing decisions in the pharmaceutical industry (IntTies)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The aim of this project is to examine how companies go about launching innovations worldwide. Launch is the commercialization of a product i.e. the moment at which a new product enters a market/country for the first time. We focus on innovation in the pharmaceutical industry context as these innovations are new medicine. Examining commercialization is particularly relevant in the context of pharma ...
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"Sovereign Wealth Funds, Internationalization and Political Connection" (SWF)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"This proposal initiates research on the financial and corporate impact of Sovereign Wealth Fund investments in Europe and North America. SWFs are already large and active market players, thus of interest to regulators, economists and stakeholders of firms. Questions about their roles as investors need to be addressed and clarified. In this proposal, the researcher aims to study effects of SWFs as ...
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