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This article analyses through a rent seeking model, the relationship between institutions' quality and natural … resources. Depending on the institutions quality, each country has a specific structural capacity to stand natural resources … resources begin to have a negative impact on institutions. As the stock of natural resources increases, this improves the …
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innovation process. Rather than debating their accuracy and efficiency, we adopt a pragmatic approach to business models -- we … techno-economic network of an innovation.WP abstract: Analyzes the uses and functions of business models through original …
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Small to medium enterprises (SME) are frequently associated with high levels of innovation. However, it is difficult … for such firms to fully assess the merits of a particular innovation. This study examined the risk-return profile of … future investment in innovation by SME with respect to anticipated ‘rent' or financial returns. A survey of highly innovative …
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In this paper, we present a rent-seeking model of conflict, which highlights the role of ideology in determining whether the government or the rebels take the initiative. We use the model to interpret the impact of a large-scale Community-Driven Development project on civil conflict in the...
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A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...
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remises en cause alors que les règles constitutionnelles permettant de penser la dynamique des institutions semblent avoir …
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aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect … information on the leader's type and the underlying capacity of institutions to monitor her. A misbehavior is then interpreted as …
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are focusing the institutional efficiency and institutions as regulating organisms. After presenting the theoretic …
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Dans un contexte d'incertitudes économiques et de précarité de l'emploi, la GPEC territoriale, visant à anticiper et mutualiser les pratiques de GPEC entre différents acteurs socio-économiques d'un même bassin d'emploi, apparaît particulièrement opportune. Cependant, bâtir...
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Le processus d'accession de l'Algérie à l'OMC, qui a débuté en 1987 dans le cadre du GATT, est de loin le plus long parmi les négociations en cours. Malgré ce délai, un certain nombre de problèmes importants doivent encore être réglés pour aboutir à un accord. Le passage du GATT à...
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