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Trade in Services: Negotiating Issues and Approaches

2001

, and is the most dynamic sector of world trade. New negotiations under the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services … worldwide. The papers in this volume, produced as part of the OECD Trade Directorate's services project, explore fundamental … issues for the services negotiations: what are the barriers to trade in services? How can those barriers be addressed in …

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International regulatory co-operation and international organisations : the cases of the OECD and the IMO

2014

Annotation, This publication presents findings and two case studies from an April 2014 meeting on the roles of the OECD and the IMO in international international regulatory co-operation as well as a contribution from K. W. Abbott on the links between the two

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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...

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Interracial Workplace Cooperation : Evidence from the NBA

Price, Joseph - 2009

Using data from the National Basketball Association (NBA), we examine whether patterns of workplace cooperation occur disproportionately among workers of the same race. We find that, holding constant the composition of teammates on the floor, basketball players are no more likely to complete an...

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Liaisons Dangereuses : Increasing Connectivity, Risk Sharing, and Systemic Risk

Battiston, Stefano - 2009

We characterize the evolution over time of a network of credit relations among financial agents as a system of coupled stochastic processes. Each process describes the dynamics of individual financial robustness, while the coupling results from a network of liabilities among agents. The average...

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Social Capital as Good Culture

Guiso, Luigi - 2007

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...

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Schools at the crossroads of innovation in cities and regions

OECD; Centre for Educational Research and Innovation - 2017

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Trust in Large Organizations

Porta, Rafael La - 1996

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries,...

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International Regulatory Co-operation and International Organisations : The Cases of the OECD and the IMO

2014

The world is witnessing the progressive emergence of an open, dynamic, globalised economy, and the intensification of global challenges such as systemic risks, environmental protection, human health or safety. Against this background, governments are increasingly seeking to ensure greater...

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Schools at the Crossroads of Innovation in Cities and Regions

2017

Many people would not consider schools among the most innovative institutions of modern societies. This perception is not entirely accurate, since education is innovating in many ways in order to meet the demands of the 21st century economies and societies. But teachers and schools cannot do it...

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