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Using the four Biotechnology Uses and Development surveys of Statistics Canada, we analyse the relative importance of funding and support as well as collaboration and contracting, R&D and IP strategies on the propensity to patent of Canadian biotechnology firms. Our model accounts for the...
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With assertion of collusive behavior in public construction projects, this report looks at the best practices meant to detect and to deter collusion in procurement. Based on regulatory frameworks, an overview of actual processes in public procurement and of construction industry regulation is...
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-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service … simulate elasticities and the effects of ex ante reforms on physician contracts. Our results show that physician services and …
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German unions do in fact bargain over both wages and employment, but that the models of individualistic contracts, such as …. Furthermore, we explore the heterogeneity of contracts over a variety of worker and job characteristics. In particular, we find … evidence that contracts differ across industries and across firm size. Workers of large firms are remarkably more insulated …
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This report defines a framework to evaluate and collect data on incidents and accidents occurring in hospitals and to create database at local and national level. Our goals are: 1) to provide a structure for thorough analysis within the hospitals that can be used with the already existing tools...
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scale, both in terms of volume and visibility, requires a re-evaluation of standard risk management procedures. This report … provides managers with an invaluable risk-analysis grid specific to the food industry, which identifies the main risk factors … and undesirable outcomes associated with mega events. Once this is done, appropriate risk management strategies can be …
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related to environmental risk factors, organizational risk factors and use of precautionary principle are discussed. Ce …
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We elicit subjects' willingness to pay to reduce future risk. In our experiments, subjects are given a cash endowment … probability sessions, suggesting that this bias robustly persists in environments including both risk and future uncertainty, and …
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In this report, we first develop a simplified example that illustrates the importance of considering the option ``waiting to invest'' when valuing an investment. This is followed by a short description of other options that could be embedded in an investment opportunity. In order to stress the...
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The following project report is the first of a sequence which will focus on integrated risk management. This report … presents a conceptual model which goal is to define the concept of risk. This conceptual model integrates the definitions of … multiple domains having an interest in risk management. With the model, a terminology is proposed. This conceptual model is a …
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