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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case
Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission’s claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071158
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Self-reporting untoward events to external controllers: accounting for reporting failure by a top tier chemical plant
Etienne, Julien - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper explores the reasons of hazardous organizations for responding to state rules requesting them to report untoward events to public regulators. The literature on external reporting of untoward events remains remarkably limited, and this paper contributes to it by providing a rare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744910
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The administrative burden reduction policy boom in Europe: comparing mechanisms of policy diffusion
Wegrich, Kai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Much has been written on the diffusion of public management and regulatory reform tools. Available evidence suggests that cross-national policy diffusion is an increasingly significant phenomenon, especially in the European context. While internationalisation of policy discourses and expert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745139
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Watching the watchmaker: on regulating the social in lieu of the technical
Downer, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper looks at the problem of expertise in regulation by examining the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) 'type-certification' process, through which they evaluate new designs of civil aircraft. It notes that the FAA delegate a large amount of this work to the manufacturers themselves,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745349
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Rights as risk: managing human rights and risk in the UK prison sector
Whitty, Noel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Discourses of both risk and human rights circulate on a daily basis in the UK prison sector. Little attention, however, has been devoted to one overlap: the co-existing demands of organisational risk management and Human Rights Act compliance. This paper begins by highlighting some of the shifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745543
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Building a boundary object: the evolution of Financial Risk Management
Millo, Yuval; MacKenzie, Donald - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The paper traces the intertwined evolution of financial risk management and the financial derivatives markets. Spanning from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, this paper reveals the social, political and organizational factors that underpinned the exponential success of one of today's leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745554
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Anatomy of a disaster: why some accidents are unavoidable
Downer, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper looks at the fateful 1988 fuselage failure of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 to suggest and illustrate a new perspective on the sociology of technological failure and the question of whether such failures are potentially avoidable. Drawing on core insights from the sociology of scientific...
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Happiness and public policy: a challenge to the profession
Layard, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745996
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The libertarian origins of cybercrime: unintended side-effects of a political utopia
Hofmann, Jeanette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Cybercrime and its potential ramifications exemplify 'one of those things that nobody wants' (Popper 1963). From today's perspective it would have been easy to foresee and at least partly prevent the mischief of cybercrime. One therefore wonders what early developers and users of the Internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746073