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Extinction of the human race : Doom-mongering or reality?

Aalbers, R.F.T. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

assimilates pollution and how pollution affects life on earth. In this paper, an assimilation function is specified that is …

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Environmental quality and pollution-saving technological change in a two-sector endogenous growth model

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Smulders, Sjak - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1993

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092539

Elements of a Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This paper presents elements of a cognitive theory of the firm, from the perspective of embodied cognition.It entails the notion of 'cognitive distance' between people that have developed their cognition in different environments. This yields the notion of the firm as a 'focusing device', to...

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Firms, Nonprofits, and Cooperatives : A Theory of Organizational Choice

Prüfer, Jens; Herbst, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper formalizes the difference between firms, nonprofits, and cooperatives and identifies optimal organizational choice. In a model of quality provision, we find a clear ranking of quality produced: Firms provide lowest and nonprofits highest levels of quality. Efficiency, however, depends...

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Methodological Interactionism : Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology,...

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions.This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the...

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Cooperative Games and Disjunctive Permission Structures

Gilles, R.P.; Owen, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of 'embodied cognition'. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural...

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CAAA Induced Competition in Coal Markets: A Model of Coal and Allowances.

Doucet, J.A.; Sartzetakis, E.; Strauss, T. - Groupe de recherche en économie de l'énergie, de … - 1996

The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 will have a major impact on U.S. coal markets. We argue that coal suppliers will be able to use the market in sulfur dioxide emissions allowances created by the CAAA to increase the range of their competitive strategies in their core business, coal.

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Fiscal Competition and Polluting Firm' Location Under Incomplete Information.

Tanguay, G.A.; Marceau, N. - Groupe de recherche en économie de l'énergie, de … - 1998

The main result of this paper is that when two asymmetric regions compete in pollution taxes to attract a polluting … that incomplete information on regions' pollution costs may lead to a bias towards location in a region that does not …'' marginal cost of pollution. Also, this bias tends to disappear with large discrepancies in production costs. …

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