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Survival in a Declining Industry: The Case of Baseball Cards

Zillante, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

The baseball card industry provides a case study of survival in a declining industry. The case study shows how manufacturers have varied their strategic behavior in response to changes that have occurred within the industry in the last 20 years. This is in stark contrast to most of the existing...

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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais

Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005

The motion passed in 2002 in the parliament of the Swiss canton of Valais by the MP Yves Bagnoud requires that the government has the overall debt of the State externally audited. The aim of this study is to provide information to answer the motion. To do so, the study is organised as follows....

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open-source software

Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004

This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world’s scientific literature in physics and mathematics. This...

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THE HIDDEN COSTS AND RETURNS OF INCENTIVES — TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHINESS AMONG CEOs

Fehr, Ernst; List, John A. - EconWPA - 2004

situations requiring trust and trustworthiness. As a control we compare the behavior of CEOs with the behavior of students. We …. However, the availability of penalizing incentives also creates hidden returns: if a principal expresses trust by voluntarily … threat is not available. Thus trust seems to reinforce trustworthy behavior. Overall, trustworthiness is highest if the …

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Sustaining Cooperation in trust Games

McCabe, Kevin; Rigdon, Mary; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2004

-person trust game. Players are typed based on their recent track record as whether or not they are trusting (Players 1) and whether …

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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL … REDUCING OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN OUR NEAPOLITAN REALITY, WE ASSUME THAT IS BETTER TO 'RELIANCE' RATHER THAN TO TRUST. FOR THE …

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A Prototype for an Agent-based Secure Electronic Marketplace including Reputation Tracking Mechanisms

Boris, Padovan; Stefan, Sackmann; Thorsten, Eymann; … - EconWPA - 2002

The future of electronic commerce will be shaped by open, heterogeneous and complex structures, consisting of networked marketplaces. Software agents will interact and negotiate on behalf of their human (or organizational) principals. Principals will be able to implement fraudulent strategies in...

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Borrowing Alone The Theory and Policy Implications of the Commodification of Finance

Hannsgen, Greg - EconWPA - 2004

Over the past 20 years, finance has become commodified. Firms increasingly obtain finance from securities markets, instead of borrowing from commercial banks with which they have long-term relationships, while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac package a growing number of mortgages into bonds. When...

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On the Reliability of Trusting

James, Harvey - EconWPA - 2002

This paper presents a model of trust in which a principal chooses either to trust or monitor an agent who, in turn …, chooses either to honor or exploit that trust. The principal's decision of whether to trust or monitor is based on the … relative temptation an agent faces to exploit the principal's trust, which comprises two elements – the environmental …

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