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Uneven geographies of organizational practice: explaining the cross-national transfer and adoption of ISO 9000

Neumayer, Eric; Perkins, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

- recognized set of standards for quality management. We develop a series of hypotheses about the conditions under which …

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Arrangements for Setting Drinking Water Standards

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

sector, however, compares regulatory processes for the development and enforcement of quality standards, in Australia and …

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Standards Coalitions Formation and Market Structure in Network Industries

Economides, Nicholas; Skrzypacz, Andrzej - EconWPA - 2004

We discuss the formation of technical standards platforms in industries with network externalities where firms are free … standards coalition in the first stage of a game, and play an oligopoly game in the second stage. In adding itself to a … technical standards coalition, a firm benefits from the network effects of the whole coalition, but also faces increased …

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Broadcasting

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

In 1999, the Commonwealth Government referred the Broadcasting Services Act and related legislation to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report within twelve months. The inquiry stems from the Government’s commitment under the Competition Principles Agreement to review legislation...

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AGRO-FOOD PRODUCTS AND TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE: A SURVEY OF ISSUES AND CONCERNS RAISED IN THE WTO'S TBT COMMITTEE

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

This study presents a survey of issues and concerns raised in the WTO's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, with particular emphasis on discussions related to agro-food products. It thereby aims to provide background information on TBT-related activities during the period 1995- 2001. The...

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Standards, Regulatory Reform and Development in APEC: Case Studies of Vietnam and Thailand

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

standards systems and related infrastructure. Vietnam and Thailand are examined as case studies. In both cases the move to … internationalise standards and the quality of services strengthened during the 1990s. Technical capacities remain weak, but are … government-led system of mandatory standards, to one now based on international norms and voluntary standards. Weaknesses in …

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Liability Rules and Evolutionay Dynamics

Zheng, Mingli - EconWPA - 2003

We consider the convergence properties of behavior under a comparative negligence rule (CN) and under a rule of negligence with contributory negligence (NCN), assuming bilateral care with three care levels. Using an evolutionary model, we show that CN reduces the proportion of the population...

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Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance

Edlin, Aaron S. - EconWPA - 1999

Americans drive 2,360,000,000,000 miles each year, far outstripping other nations. Every time a driver takes to the road, and with each mile she drives, she exposes herself and others to the risk of accident. Insurance premiums are only weakly linked to mileage, however and have largely lump-sum...

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Rational Legal Decision-Making, Value Judgment and Efficient Precaution in Tort law

ZHENG, MINGLI; ANWAR, SAJID - EconWPA - 2005

By reinterpreting Savage axioms as axioms of the social rationality over resource allocations, we derive a social welfare function encompassing individual social values and a social attitude towards distributional inequality. Wealth maximization becomes the purpose of law only if individuals...

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