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Institutions and regulation for economic growth? : public interests versus private incentives

Wubben, Emiel F. M. (ed.) - Belgian Dutch Association for Institutional and … - 2011

Realizing institutions and regulations that foster economic growth is an essential asset for contemporary economies. This book investigates practices and options for steering individual and firm behaviour that prevents unacceptable externalities and boosts public interests. These...

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Knowledge intensive business services : organizational forms and national institutions

Grimshaw, Damian (contributor); Miozzo, Marcela (contributor) - 2006

This book focuses on the development of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and the associated market characteristics and organisational forms. It brings together reputed scholars from a mix of disciplines to explore the nature and evolution of a range of Knowledge Intensive Business...

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Institutions, globalisation and empowerment

Sideras, Jörn (contributor); … - 2006

This book argues that the capacity of a country to develop, and the levels of economic and social development achieved, depend more on the institutional parameters within which the development policies are implemented than on the policies themselves. It contends that forces of globalisation...

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Does economic governance matter? : governance institutions and outcomes

Uğur, Mehmet (ed.); Sunderland, David (ed.) - 2011

Economic governance institutions (rules, norms and enforcement practices) define the cost and incentive structures that influence the decisions of economic actors. They therefore have a significant impact on micro and macro economic performance across countries and time. -- This book contributes...

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International handbook on the economics of corruption : Volume two

Rose-Ackerman, Susan (contributor); … - 2011

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...

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Institutions, innovation and growth : selected economic papers

Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2003

The first book in this important new series, under the general editorship of Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Institutions, Innovation and Growth assembles a stellar cast of international contributors. Leading economists join the debate on innovation and economic growth, focussing on a broad...

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Research handbook of comparative employment relations

Barry, Michael P. (ed.); Wilkinson, Adrian (ed.) - 2011

contemporary developments in the world of work, and the way in which employment relations systems are evolving around the world …

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Innovation and entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B. (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2009

University Press, 74-94 -- Frank H. Knight (1921), 'Enterprise and Profit', in Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Chapter IX, New York … Theory of Firm Formation Based on Risk Aversion', Journal of Political Economy, 87 (4), 719-48 …

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Economic development : the critical role of competition law and policy

Fox, Eleanor M. - 2011

', World Competition, 33 (2), 275-300 -- Robert Anderson and Frédéric Jenny (2005), 'Competition Policy, Economic Development …', World Competition, 32 (2), 249-70 -- Aditya Bhattacharjea (2008), 'India's New Competition Law: A Comparative Assessment … in Mexico, Washington, D.C.: World Bank. -- Melitz, M. (2005), 'When and How Infant Industries should be Protected …

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Reversal of Fortune : Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal is...

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