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Äganderätten i den nationalekonomiska forskarutbildningen

Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2005

Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i att en rad ekonomiska ”fullskaleexperiment” har visat att den ekonomiska friheten definierad av samhällets institutioner – dess spelregler – har avgörande betydelse för den ekonomiska tillväxten och det allmänna välståndet, i synnerhet uppkomsten...

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Economics without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks

Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

as relevant, and how those problems should be analyzed. I investigate whether entrepreneurship-rich and institutions … bounded rationality. The other deals with social rules: institutions, property rights, and economic freedom. When the words …

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Islam and the Institutions of a Free Society: Many Problems, Little Hope

Voigt, Stefan - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

The rule of law, constitutional democracy, and market economy are taken as the core institutions of free societies …. After arguing that shared values heavily influence institutions, it is asked whether Islamic values are conducive to those … institutions. The values are ascertained via the economic ethics of Islam as lived today and the attitudes of some Muslim …

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Bringing Institutions Into Evolutionary Economics: Another View with Links to Changes in Physical and Social Technologies

Pelikan, Pavel - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

Like Nelson (2002), I make a case for bringing institutions into evolutionary economics. But unlike Nelson, who defines … institutions as social technologies consisting of rules-routines, I define them in agreement with North (1990) as humanly devised … communicating with modern institutional analysis, for clarifying how institutions can influence, and be influenced by, changes in …

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Securing Constitutional Government: The Perpetual Challenge

Ratnapala, Suri - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

Constitutional government is an ideal and like all ideals can only be achieved as an approximation. Even those countries that appear to be near the ideal are revealed on examination to be not so near. Constitutional government, to the extent it is achieved reflects a state of affairs. It remains...

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Property Rights and Economic Growth

Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...

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Clearings and Thickets

Cooter, Robert; Edlin, Aaron - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

Intellectual property law, which includes patents and copyright law, establishes the ownership of innovations by people. It conveys a bundle of rights to creators as determined by rules. Applied to intellectual property law, the normative question of growth economics is, “Which ownership rules...

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How Culture Molds the Effects of Self Efficacy and Fear of Failure on Entrepreneurship

Wennberg, Karl; Pathak, Saurav; Autio, Erkko - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness study (GLOBE) for 42 countries to investigate how the effects of individual’s self-efficacy and fear of failure on entrepreneurial entry are contingent on national...

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Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts, and Institutions

Kokko, Ari; Söderlund, Bengt; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

examination of the consequences of this shift. Results suggest that weak institutions hamper trade and reduces the length of trade … redirect towards markets with weak institutions. …

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Institutional Ownership and Returns on Investment

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

This paper examines how institutional investors influence investment decisions and returns on investment. To measure investment performance we used a measure of marginal q which measures the ratio of the investment returns to cost of capital. Institutional owners are found to have had a positive...

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