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are characterized by a fundamental inconsistency between formal and informal institutions. When formal and informal rules … the new institutional economics is on the consequences of institutions--the rules that structure and constrain economic …. Institutions therefore do affect economic performance, but it is not always obvious which institutional rules dominate. Where …
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We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical … institutional framework that shows how institutions affect efficiency, we apply this framework to the real world. An empirical … analysis of institutions affecting training markets will enable us to determine the institutional efficiency of these markets …
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-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …
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Economists tend to agree that the recent cutting of dividends taxes will encourage investment and reduce financial distress. In addition to creating these “benefits,” however, the tax cut can also increase governance costs. For example, by removing a bias for leveraged capital structures,...
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This paper offers a review of the main progress made in entrepreneurship analysis and institutional economics …
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culture, institutions and technology matter in the development of IPR protection policy even more than traditional variables …
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Nigeria is going through a difficult political and economic transition after decades of independence.Yet, Nigeria remains a society rich in cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political diversity. Today, the average Nigerian struggles hard to make ends meet; sees himself or herself as...
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opening, exchange rate policies, alternatives to debt financing and the role of the international financial institutions. The …
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A graduated excise allows mores patial control of congestion and pollution. The cost of a detour to a scheaper gas station defines a gradient, and the integral gives an excise mountain with its top at the center of the metropolitan area. Consisntency implies that the mountain with the maximal...
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