This paper modifies a standard model of law enforcement to allow for learning by doing. We incorporate the process of … enforcement learning by assuming that the agency’s current marginal cost is a decreasing function of its past experience of … ability of future apprehension at a lower marginal cost. We focus on the impact of enforcement learning on optimal compliance …

We propose a dynamic efficiency wage model with learning by doing. By taking into account the change inthe stock of …

This paper highlights formally the interaction existing between the quality of institutional governance, the education … sector and economic growth. More fundamentally, we show how the quality of institutional governance matters in giving …

This paper is a theoretical introduction to modern governance of universities in developing countries. Indeed, adopting …

links between the quality of governance, financial development and economic development. The main theoretical predictions …

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

, Khenkin, 1988. It is shown that, as a result of interaction between innovation and imitation, the shape of the efficiency …

aggressive development of a basic innovation by better informed venture-backed firms is used as a signaling device to enhance the … sale price of the innovation. We then show that incumbents can undertake early, preemptive, acquisitions to prevent such … signaling driven overinvestment, despite the risk of buying a non-productive innovation. Therefore, to exist in equilibrium …

A simple model of imitation and innovation is developed to explain a complicated picture of relative productivity … imitation, only innovation or a mixed policy prevails. We demonstrate how one can find the stationary states and check their … stability for a broad class of imitation-innovation cost functions. Using World Bank statistical data for the period of 1980 …