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Globalization – improved access to integrated, anonymous markets – is claimed to crowd out cooperative relations: from … reciprocal exchange to lifetime employment, from relational governance to corruption/collusion. We study how agents …
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Two issues related to mapping a multi-sector model into a reduced-form value-added model are often neglected: the composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between the productivity indices for value added and for gross output. We illustrate their significance for growth accounting...
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The paper analyses the appointment of the European Commission as a strategic game between members of the EU's Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. The focal equilibrium results in Commissioners that duplicate policy preferences of national Council representatives. Different internal...
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representation (PR), was the desire of the Conservative and Liberal parties to come up with a way of credibly dividing power to avoid … problem with majoritarian electoral institutions was that they did not allocate power in a way which matched the support of … with the rising support for socialism and the desire to divide power more broadly. Our findings shed new light on the …
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where the survival of the system is at stake; that is, at its core. Here, power becomes salient. This helps explain why …
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The paper first develops an economic analysis of the concept of shareholder value, describes its approach and discusses some open questions. It emphasizes the relationship between pledgeable income, monitoring and control rights using a unifying and simple framework. The paper then provides a...
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different ownership and governance structures. The empirical results indicate significant financial constraints even among the …
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This paper discusses proposed governance reforms of legal services markets. The model distinguishes between a status … quo position supported by a system of professionally enforced collective reputation and forms of governance based more …
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The focus of policy reform in developing countries has moved from getting prices right to getting institutions right, and accordingly countries are increasingly being advised to move towards "best-practice" institutions. This paper argues that appropriate institutions for developing countries...
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reform is costly. The club chooses between early admittance, where it can enforce reform through its partial control power …
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