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Smith, Caitlin Nicole. "Negotiating Cinematic Truths: Ethnographic and Essay Films as Parallel Forms." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/321959.
Konstantinidou, Eirini. "Mnemophrenia : a science fiction film-essay on the future of cinema and artificial memories." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7968.
Williamson, Harry Alexander. "The essay, the time image and the double : a study of the films of Chris Marker." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268596.
Pourvali, Bamchade. "L'"Essai filmé" comme forme de la modernité cinématographique, 1953-1997." Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST0034.
In the field of cinematic studies, modernity refers to the attempts to challenge classical modes of representations at the time of the Second World War, which take the form of a return to the documentary. This process takes two expressions: one runs through Hollywood productions, for instance the opening scene of Chaplin’s Great Dictator and the conclusion of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane; the other is apparent in post-war Europe with Italian neorealism. In this context, film criticism defines the essay as one of the objects of modern cinema, joining ontology to language, as described in the works of Alexandre Astruc, André Bazin or Jacques Rivette. In the middle of the 1950s, modern cinema offers striking examples of these cinematographic forms with, on the one hand Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog, a film which is typical of “the French school of short films”, and on the other hand Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy, which its author has described as the expression of “a refine form of neorealism”. In 1963, two French films are at once heirs to the tradition of classic American cinema and the start of a deeper reflection on the cinematographic essay, Chris Marker’s The Jetty and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt. By comparing the evolution of both these directors we will attempt to define the cinematographic essay as form closely linked to a certain moment in the history of cinema. Thus the essay, after producing its first major works in the 1960s will develop during the 1990s around the time of the hundredth anniversary of cinema. New stakes arise at that time to define cinematographic modernity between North and South, East and West, as cinema enters a new century
Kochbati, Hatem. "Projection numérique au cinéma : les nouvelles modalités de consommation des films art et essais (les cinémas Utopia / vidéo en poche)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAG016/document.
The present research sets out to study and scrutinise the key facts that illustrate the change in conditions caused by digital cultural industries and practice of the art of cinema and particularly the essay. In the era of digital projection, cinema halls are facing a true technological revolution. The latter induces a change in the consumption patterns and the access to culture The analysis of Utopia cinema halls and the video-in-pocket concept tell us a lot about this postmodern use of cultural artifacts at the age of digital economy
Essoukan, epee Hermann. "La Vision poétique du 'Monde' dans les films-essais Méditerranée de Jean-Daniel Pollet, Sans soleil de Chris Marker et Asientos de François L. Woukoache." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Grenoble Alpes, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023GRALL024.
The present study does not only examine the idea of a cinema that thinks and participates in the poetic thought, as stated by Norman McLaren as: ‟the flowing movement of the film that echoes that of the thought”, but it also argues for the idea of a poetic cinema and a poetics of cinema focused on a new aesthetic of mediation and creation that explores the poetic universe. In addition to engaging in the definition of a cinema of poetry and a poetics of cinema, this study intends to offer a deeper insight into the understanding of certain aesthetic and artistic mechanisms that poetically affect the attention of percept’acteurs (poetic attention) when they are faced with filmic effects/texts and processes that no longer rely on immersion and determining factors such as observed in popular cinemas, entertainment, storytelling, and documentary films. The attention of the percept’acteurs is rather drawn to the visual/perceptual indeterminacy, of the ‟aesthetic walk”, to sound like Jean-Marie Schaeffer and on the ‟poetics of idleness”.The essay-films Méditerranée by Jean-Daniel Pollet, Sans soleil by Chris Marker and Asientos by François L. Woukoache, make the percept’acteurs – a neologism that we use instead of spectator, since these films no longer deal with spectacle – to navigate in a timeless sphere and export them beyond the time, in order to break the relationship they maintain with classic films and to encourage a new look towards the artwork. For these filmmakers of poetry and memory, it’s about an ambivalent way to uproot and bury the word in order to defy conventions and break habits through a poetic and ‟political” vision in the broaden sense (Political-historical) of the world, a new aesthetic, a diy and artistic poaching, leading to a kind of reinvention of the language.Keywords: Essay films, Modern cinematography, a poetic cinema, aesthetic attention, poetic attention, percept’acteurs, artistic creation
Brink, Joram ten. "The essay film." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1999. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6876/.
Hoydicz, Jennifer. "The narc files /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
Oliveira, João Daniell Ferreira de. "Foi isso que ela disse: ensaísmo e estilo autoral em Jogo de Cena de Eduardo Coutinho." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8069.
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This research proposes a reflection on the relationship between the documentary and the essay film in the film Jogo de Cena (2007) by Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho. It is investigated if there is a tension between the analyzed domains in the analyzed film. From this question I seek to understand how the technical and aesthetic choices that constitute Coutinho's style assume essayistic contours in the research object. In order to answer the research question, I aim to understand how Coutinho 's cinematographic style is characterized and constituted; to understand how Jogo de Cena (2007) plays in the tradition of the documentary and to understand how the essay film was constituted and how it can be identified in the cinema. Methodologically, a proposal for the analysis of documents by Francisco Elinaldo Teixeira was adopted in three moments: 1. Inventory of composition materials; 2. Inventory of compositional modes; 3. Reflection on narrative modes and camera functions. Through the analysis it is indicated how it is possible to recognize essayistic strategies in Jogo de Cena (2007) as: the voice of essay tone, the dialectic of materials, the montage between word and image, the heterogeneity of the composition materials, second reading order. Thus, it is concluded that the film studied even belonging to the documentary domain presents a strong essayistic inflexion.
Este trabalho propõe uma reflexão em torno da relação entre o documentário e o filme-ensaio no filme Jogo de Cena (2007) do documentarista brasileiro Eduardo Coutinho. Investiga-se se no filme analisado existe um tensionamento entre os domínios abordados. A partir desta questão, busca-se compreender como as escolhas técnicas e estéticas que constituem o estilo de Coutinho assumem contornos ensaísticos no objeto de pesquisa. Para responder ao problema da pesquisa temos como objetivo compreender como se caracteriza e se constituiu o estilo cinematográfico de Coutinho; compreender como Jogo de Cena se inscreve na tradição do documentário e entender como se constituiu o filme-ensaio e de que forma identificá-lo no cinema. Metodologicamente adota-se a proposta de análise de documentários de Francisco Elinaldo Teixeira que por sua vez divide-se em três momentos: 1. Inventário dos materiais de composição; 2. Inventário dos modos de composição; 3. Reflexão sobre os modos narrativos e funções da câmera. Por meio da análise realizada indica-se como reconhecer estratégias ensaísticas em Jogo de Cena (2007) tais como: a voz de tom ensaístico, a dialética de materiais, a montagem entre palavra e imagem, a heterogeneidade dos materiais de composição e a leitura de segundo grau. Desse modo, conclui-se que o filme estudado mesmo pertencendo ao domínio do documentário apresenta forte inflexão ensaística.
Mourão, Catarina. "The Wolf's Lair : dreams and fragmented memories in a first-person essay film." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25710.
Exadaktylos, Dimitrios. "Essays on firms' competitiveness." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2022. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/362/1/Exadaktylos_phdthesis.pdf.
Liang, Ying. "Essay on Monetary Policies and Firms' Behaviors." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU10003.
In this paper, I study the effect of risk-free rate shocks on firms that are exposed to interest rate risk. To examine their influence on the firms’ investment behaviours, I define an interest rate exposure, which is measured by the total floating debt, so that the impact of interest rate shocks on firms can be measured by the product of the interest rate exposure and the change in the interest rate. Using the Compustat data from 1974-2012 and the US annual fundamental financial data, I firstly find that the firms, which are exposed more to interest, have more sensitive cash flows of interest payments and retained earnings. Secondly, I find that exposed firms’ investment behaviours are sensitive to the interest rate shocks as well: the higher the exposure to interest rate risk, the more the firms would react to interest rate shocks. Furthermore, I show that financially constrained or high-leverage firms are more sensitive to interest rate shocks than financially non-constrained or low-leverage ones. Interestingly, I find that the fact that firms have different reactions to the interest rate shocks of different signs also works for R&D policies. Finally, I show that the model structure changes a lot after the 2008 financial crisis. We study the reactions of insurance companies to the unexpected interest shocks, which are defined by using the level and the slope of future contract interest rates. We find that on average, insurance companies have significantly positive abnormal returns following a positive unexpected shock in the level or the slope of interest rates: a 1% increase in the level or the slope of interest rates will increase the abnormal returns on average by 2.59% and 1.63%, respectively. We also find that insurance firms engage in maturity transformation in the opposite direction of banks: insurance companies, whose long-term debts will maturate in a very long term, will benefit from the increase in interest rate slope shocks rather than banks’ riding on the yield curve through a large mismatch between assets and liabilities. The empirical results provide important policy implications: interest rate shocks boost the value of insurance equities, with a decreasing effect on life, property & causality, and multi-line, but not for the reinsurance or insurance brokers. I investigate how the 2011 and 2014 EU stress tests affect the risk-taking of Euro-pean banks. I document a non-monotonic relationship between banks’ risk-shifting resulting from regulatory arbitrage and the tightness of their capital constraint (i.e., the distance between their ex-ante capital ratio and the regulatory level): banks with capital ratios marginally above the regulatory level do more regulatory arbitrage than banks with a level of capital ratio significantly below or above the regulatory level. I also study the indirect effect of the tests on the financing costs of banks which are excluded from the tests: their financing costs on the corporate bond market increase with the level of negative information released in the country in which they are located
Bielecki, Anton Gallegos. "The found footage narrative : reflexive mythology of survivor memory." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-found-footage-narrative-reflexive-mythology-of-survivor-memory(808152e8-26cb-49c6-881f-b59ab64285d8).html.
Canto, Cláudia Seneme do [UNESP]. "A imagem - pensamento: o potencial educativo do filme-ensaio com o Grupo Kino-Olho." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144641.
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A seguinte pesquisa aborda o processo de construção de filmes-ensaio pelo Grupo de Pesquisa e Prática Cinematográfica Kino-Olho, de Rio Claro, interior de São Paulo que tem como objetivo ensinar cinema a jovens e adultos criando um espaço de aprendizado diferenciado capaz de trazer novas formas de pensar a educação e a educação e o cinema. Conforme explica MACHADO (2003), a produção de um filme-ensaio não tem como objetivo final atingir uma perfeição artística, mas sim o processo de produção; como se estes fossem rascunhos de uma obra, visando o pensamento e a construção por trás do filme. Assim, a pesquisa traz uma reflexão sobre os modos de afetação e de criação que possibilitam estas imagens e como elas escapam às modulações já existentes. A pesquisa se propõe a lidar com a incerteza e com o estar fora dos lugares fixos e estabelecidos. Aberta a mostrar quais pensamentos e que modos de produção de pensamentos as imagens do Grupo Kino-Olho criam, possibilitam, produzem e qual experiência é possível aos integrantes do grupo nesta produção. Como metodologia a pesquisa utilizará do registro e da leitura de dados em vídeo, abrangendo as discussões do grupo, o material dos filmes-ensaio e filmagem dos bastidores na realização dos mesmos. Tais filmagens (filme-ensaio e filmagem dos bastidores) resultarão num texto narrativo.
The following research approaches the essay-films construction process within the Kino-Olho Research Group from Rio Claro, the Rural section of São Paulo’ state. This group aims teaching youngs and adults how to make movies through the creating a space of learning capable of bringing new ways of thinking about education, and education and cinema, in general. According to MACHADO (2003), the production of essay-films does not aim artistic perfection. Instead, the focus is on the production process as if the masterpiece were being sketched through the thoughts and the construction behind the film. The research brings out new ways of deliberate on the modes of affection and creation that allow these images being created and how they escape the existent modulations. The present work, proposes to deal with the uncertainty of being out of the stablished places. Shows how and which thoughts and modes of production the pictures, from Kino-Olho create, allow, produce and what experience is possible for the people involved on this production. Concerning the methodology, the research is going to use the reading of the video data containing the group debates, the essay-films materials and the shootings making of the movies. Such shootings (essay-film and making of) are going to result in a narrative writing.
Yun, Ke. "Essays on firms' accounting quality." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54179.
Business, Sauder School of
Graduate
Duo, Yi. "Essays on politically connected firms." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63324.
Business, Sauder School of
Accounting, Division of
Graduate
Bajgar, Matej. "Essays on firms and globalisation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cdee11d5-263e-4d9a-a11f-10e0f019bc2a.
Staes, Aurore. "Essays on Firms' Private Information." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0091.
This thesis consists of three chapters and is organized in two parts. Each part deals with a particular theoreticalissue of firms' private information.The first part of the thesis is devoted to the architecture of global warming policies and firms' private information.The first chapter analyses which global agreement can be implemented in presence of two-tiers asymmetry of information coming from both countries and domestic firms. We impose several key constraints on the design of such a regulatory policy: heterogeneity of countries, two-tier private information both at domestic and international levels and full participation. We derive the optimal first and second-best agreement. It is shown that the optimal global agreement does not always entail a uniform price for carbon. In presence of domestic firm's private information, the second-best agreement entails prices for carbon that differ from one country to another. We thereby highlight the failure of the Law of One Carbon Price. In the second part of the thesis that comprises two chapters, I study the interaction between two communication tools --- price signaling and third-party disclosure --- that firms may use to reveal their private information to consumers. The second chapter examines a third-party disclosure that consists in a certification handled by a middleman: a certifier. A monopolist has the choice between paying for that disclosure or using price to signal quality. The strategic certifier is either a for-profit entity or an entity that defends the monopolist' interest. I first show that the structure of audit costs incurred by the middlemen affects the type of monopolist that chooses certification. I then show that the characteristics of the certification ---audit probability and certification fee--- vary with the motivation of the strategic middleman. More specifically, a for-profit certifier, whenever it is possible, will not audit and put the highest feasible fee while a certifier defending the monopolist will audit with a certain probability and select the lowest possible fee. This chapter thereby contributes to a better understanding of the certification industry.The last chapter studies a third-party disclosure that consists of two steps: certification and labeling. It involves two middlemen --- the certifier and the owner of the label --- and it includes a certification fee and a price for the label. A monopolist has the choice between paying for that disclosure or signaling quality through price.I derive the disclosure when the certifier is a for-profit private entityand the label owner is private either a for-profit entity or an entity that defends the monopolist' interest. I show that, when the label owner defends the monopolist, the price of that label and the sharing of the surplus depend on the nature of certifiers' competition. In particular, I find that, a label owner defending the monopolist in order to prevent the certifier from capturing the surplus should favor competition between certifiers or, when that is not possible, monetize the label
Santoleri, Pietro. "Essays on young firms' dynamics." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01E011.
In light of the prominent role played by young firms in shaping the creative destruction process and contributing to overall job creation, this thesis provides novel evidence on the dynamics of these segment of the productive system. In particular, the dissertation revolves around the following topics: i) the role played by innovation activities in fostering employment growth in young firms; ii) the impact of the economic recession of the growth rates of young vs. small firms; iii) the role played by public policies in supporting innovative entrants. In more detail, Chapter 1 examines the under-researched nexus between innovation activities and employment growth in newly born firms. Based on a representative dataset for a cohort of US firms born in 2004, the results highlight the relevance of R&D and patenting to foster growth and, especially, high-growth performance for newly-born firms. Chapter 2 provides additional evidence on the relationship between innovation and growth by using Chilean data and focus on how returns to innovation differ for young and mature firms. Results show that innovation benefits high-growth firms. However, these results materialize especially for mature firms and in the case of process innovation whereas innovative activities do not appear to be a prerequisite for high-growth performance in young businesses. These findings highlight how the returns to innovation might be context specific. Chapter 3 focuses on the impact of the double-dip recession on the growth performance of young vis-à-vis small firms. Using data for ten Eurozone countries, the findings show that small firms were not particularly affected - if anything they performed better - whereas young firms experienced a marked decrease in their growth rates. In the analysis we also find that the financial constraint channel appears to be one of the forces responsible for the above results. In Chapter 4 the main focus is the investigation of the role of public policy in providing support for the performance of innovative new firms. In particular, we investigate the impact of a recent policy implemented in Italy (i.e. the “Start-up Act”). The analysis indicates an overall positive effect of the program on a wide range of firm-level outcomes
Sellier, Geneviève. "Les films de jean gremillon : essai d'analyse narratologique." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030227.
The thesis deals in chronological order with the full length films of jean gremillon, from "maldone" (1927) to "the love of a women" (1954), before discussing his work as a whole. By analysing the divergence between the story itself and the sequence of events and their presentation, the creating of the characters and the interpretation of the actors, and lastly the editing of the narrative and of the visual images, we have attempted to show how certain themes recur in the films while others are developed and break new ground. This leads us to try to evaluate the position of gremillon's films in relation other works of this period and in paricular to other melodramas. Finally we discuss the question of a cinema wich aims to alienate the audience, and of the cration of "alternative" female characters who reinstate the value of everyday life in sets wich systematically make use of natural exteriors
Sellier, Geneviève. "Les Films de Jean Grémillon essai d'analyse narratologique /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37609868c.
Broad, Lynne English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Chris Marker: A stylistic analysis of his film and media work." Publisher:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41548.
Wellton, Pascal. "Att tala i ord och bild: : Den audiovisuella essäns historiska utveckling." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Bildproduktion, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30730.
Cencig, Javier Esteban. "Estrategias do discurso no cinema não ficcional." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284666.
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar estratégias do discurso no domínio documentário ou não ficcional a partir da análise de três filmes de diferentes épocas e suas particularidades metodológicas, abordando a formação histórica que os envolve. O principal critério para a escolha dos filmes, além do grande apreço que lhes tenho, foi o fato de terem como tema condições de vida em cenários de exclusão, quer seja por meio da marginalização ou da reclusão, de homens e mulheres em diferentes contextos sociais
Abstract: This work's main purpose is to identify discourse strategies in the non-fictional domain based on the analysis of three movies from different moments and their methodological particularities, approaching their historical formation. The choice of the movies was carried out based on the fact they share the subject of life conditions in exclusion scenarios, whether it is by reclusion or marginalization, of men and women in different social contexts.
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Niney, François. "L'epreuve du reel a l'ecran essai sur le principe de realite documentaire." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030122.
Bai, Jie Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Essays on firms in developing countries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104483.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231).
This thesis consists of three chapters on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and the impact of government policies on business growth. The first chapter examines firms' incentive to establish a reputation for quality. A key problem in developing countries is the lack of reliable provision of high quality goods and services. I designed an experiment to understand this phenomenon in a setting that features typical market conditions in a developing country: the retail watermelon market in a major Chinese city. I begin by demonstrating empirically that there is substantial asymmetric information between sellers and buyers on sweetness, the key indicator of quality for watermelons, yet sellers do not sort and price watermelons by quality. I then randomly introduce one of two branding technologies into 40 out of 60 markets-one sticker label that is widely used and often counterfeited and one novel laser-cut label. I track sellers' quality, pricing and sales over an entire season and collect household panel purchasing data to examine the demand side's response. I find that laser branding induced sellers to provide higher quality and led to higher sales profits, establishing that reputational incentives are present and can be made to pay. However, after the intervention was withdrawn, all markets reverted back to baseline. To rationalize the experimental findings, I build an empirical model of consumer learning and seller reputation. The results indicate that information frictions and fragmented markets lead to significant under-provision of quality in this setting. Though there is a high demand for quality, trust could take a long time to establish under the existing branding technology, which makes reputation building a low return investment. While the new branding technology enhances consumer learning, small individual sellers do not have the incentive to invest in this technology due to their small market size and market competition. The second chapter (co-authored with Seema Jayachandran, Edmund J. Malesky and Benjamin Olken) considers how local governments' bribe extraction could interact with firms' growth. We propose a model in which government officials' choice of how much bribe money to extract from firms is modulated by inter-jurisdictional competition. The model predicts that economic growth decreases the rate of bribe extraction under plausible assumptions, with the benefit to officials of demanding a given share of revenue as bribes outweighed by the increased risk that firms will move elsewhere. A second prediction is that the negative effect of growth on bribery is larger if firms are more mobile. We find empirical support for these predictions. In particular, we employ two instrumental variables strategies-one based on growth in a firm's industry in other provinces within Vietnam and another based on industry growth in neighboring China and find that growth causes a decrease in bribe extraction. Our results suggest that as poor countries grow, corruption could subside on "its own." Consistent with the model's predictions, we find that the effect is for firms whose property rights to their land are transferable and who have operations in multiple provinces, two proxies for geographic mobility. The third chapter examines the impact of internal trade barriers on firms' performance and export activities. It is well known that various forms of non-tariff barriers exist among Chinese provinces. However, empirically, it is difficult to measure these barriers because they can take many forms. I take advantage of an export VAT rebate policy reform in 2004 as a natural experiment to identify the existence of internal trade barriers and study the impact on TFP and resource allocation. In particular, as a result of shifting tax rebate burdens, the 2004 reform leads to a greater incentive for the provincial governments to block the domestic flow of non-local goods related to exporting. I find that foreign trade companies in the coastal region become more "inward-looking" in the years after the reform, consistent with rising local trade barriers. The value of exports through intermediaries grows less in the inland region relative to the coastal region, and the negative effect is larger in inland provinces with greater exposure to the reform, measured using baseline reliance on trade through intermediaries. I extend the standard open-economy heterogeneous firm model by adding an intermediary sector as in Ahn, Khandelwal and Wei (2011) but with a new focus on the intermediary's role of domestic sourcing. The model can be used to analyze general equilibrium effects, examine firms' entry and exit into exporting, and quantify the distortion on TFP.
by Jie Bai.
Ph. D.
Grassi, Basile. "Essays on firms dynamics in macroeconomics." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010089.
Firms are the productive unit of a modern economy. It is where inputs are transformed in goods used for consumption or as inputs for other firms. These firms are numerous and very different from one another. Some are very large, while others are small. These heterogeneous firms face changes in their demand and productivity that shape their dynamics. The growth domestic product (GDP) is the sum of the value added of all the heterogeneous firms that compose an economy. It thus seems natural to think that the dynamics of the GDP is the aggregation of the dynamics of firms. However, the conventional wisdom in the macroeconomics literature, for example the real business cycle (RBC) theory, assumes one representative firm. The dynamics of the aggregate is only driven by a shock that affects the representative firm. This is equivalent to assuming perfectly correlated shocks that affect all the firms of an economy in the same way. […]
Zhang, Yanren. "Essays on incentives in family firms." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=192157.
Adrjan, Pawel. "Essays on firms and employee compensation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b1ae8a91-5c82-4148-9956-fd5a5e6843ed.
Costa, Magali Pedro. "Three essays on firms' financial distress." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/17512.
Runmark, Henrik. "I mellanrum och marginaler: Essäfilm : En närläsning av essäistisk form och samhällskritik i två svenskproducerade filmer." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-103947.
Brunet, Nicole. "Essai d'analyse cinématographique de la communauté des Sauniers de l'île de Noirmoutier." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375964656.
Choi, Hye Lin. "Essays in Multinational Firms and Productivity Growth of Domestically-Owned Firms." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396886658.
Sainati, Augusto. "Le rapport film-comique-spectateur : essai de typologie et d'analyse." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030177.
The aim of this thesis is the study of influences which determine comic film interpretation by the spectator. After an overview of the state-of-the-art research in the field of comic film, in the first part a typology of textual structures that can lead to comic effects is proposed. This typology is developed on the basis of theories on coherence. An analysis of positions that film assigns to spectator in the course of interpretation is also proposed. In the second part, after a discussion of the limits in referring only to theories on text, we study historical and cultural influences in determining the reading of comic films. As an example, we study some films of the italian actor toto, examined in their comic functioning with reference to the italian cultural context of the thirties and of the post-war period. Finally, we discuss the apppicability of notion of fiction effect to comic film, and we argue that comic film is not completely a fiction film
Queiroz, Ruben Caixeta de. "Les Waiwai du nord de l'Amazonie (Brésil) et la rencontre interculturelle : un essai d'anthropologie filmique." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100049.
Riedel, Nadine. "Essays on the Taxation of Multinational Firms." Diss., lmu, 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-85304.
Xu, Ting. "Essays on entrepreneurship and closely-held firms." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62597.
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Wilson, Linus. "Essays on the financial governance of firms." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ouls.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d7b12d53-d530-438e-bbe6-366d356ac37f.
Kattuman, Paul A. "Three essays on the growth of firms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295124.
Kuegler, Alice. "Empirical essays on inventors, workers and firms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267840.
Huang, Hanwei. "Three essays on firms and international trade." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3753/.
Iodice, Irene. "Three essays on firms in international markets." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01E015.
The thesis contains three essays on international firms. The first essay extends Iodice and Tomasi and studies the evolution of the labor and wage structure of Italian manufactures in the early 2000s. We decompose the skilled-wage bill ratio into labor and wage movements, occurred between and within industries and firms. We find that workers moved mostly towards unskilled intensive sectors, consistently with the comparative advantage of Italy in traditional industries. Most of the changes occurred within industries and mostly within firms, while wages did not adjust proportionally. The second essay is a joint work with Fontagné and Secchi. We describe the aggregate diversification, the products exported towards a destination, as the output of choices of heterogeneous firms. We propose an index of firms product similarity and interpret it as a measure of fundamental rather than firm-specific forces in diversification. We compute the Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA) for France and we find that industries with high firms' product similarity are more resilient to loose the RCA when removing individual firms. The third essay studies the protective nature of non transparent technical regulations. I build a database on the history of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) that have been contested to the WTO and I match it with a panel of French exporters. I find that in more than 1/3 of the cases, countries have not disclosed the TBT before the enforcement. In these cases, TBTs cause a temporary halt of the exporting activity. This suggests that countries can hinder foreign competition by rising the uncertainty in the market and firms' incentives to delay their export investment
Buisson, Bernard. "Essays on innovation management in established firms." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/233155.
Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
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Kudrimoti, Sanjay. "Two essays on financial condition of firms." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002734.
Phan, Khanh Thi Quoc. "Three Essays on the Organisation of Firms." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15747.
BOTTA, ENRICO. "Essays on enviromental regulation and firms' performance." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/581498.
Lafleur, Sylvain. "Le film-essai : outil d'historicisation politique." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7364.
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Piveteau, Paul. "Essays on Global Firms." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8GF0THH.
Tung, Yu-Ching, and 董宇卿. "A Critique Essay on Animated Film " Dreamland "." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gks298.
國立臺北藝術大學
新媒體藝術學系碩士班
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This essay presents the creative process and discusses the final outcome of the author’s thesis project – a 3-dimensional digital animated short film entitled "Dreamland." The story of this animation is set in a fictive world, which is situated between the fantasy and the reality. The author tries to present the animation in a style of fairy tale, which is achieved through the use of a digital technique imitating the hue of water color that allows colors to move fluently on screen, thus making the audience feel like reading a children''s picture book. The first chapter of this essay discusses the motivation behind, and the author’s goal of, creating this animated work. The second chapter elaborates on the theme of the animation and reviews the literature of psychoanalysis, in which several scholars theorized how people deal with inner conflicts when compromising one’s own goal in order to conform to the demand from a group into which (s)he tries to integrate. The author also discusses in this chapter how characters in several feature and animated films resolve such conflicts and/or achieve a compromise. The third chapter presents the idea and story outline, as well as discusses the design of characters, background setting, and the reference materials of the animation. The forth chapter describes the production process of the thesis animation and the difficulties the author had encountered, as well as the adjustment she made in order to complete the work. Finally, the author made a self-critique in the fifth chapter, hoping to avoid making the similar mistakes in the future works.
宋淳. "A Critique essay on the film script ." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qj27t3.