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Co-operative and competitive enforced self regulation: the role of governments, private actors and banks in corporate responsibility

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In considering why practices which stimulate incentives for private agents to exert corporate control should be encouraged, this paper highlights criticisms attributed to government control of banks. However the theory relating to the “helping hand” view of government is advanced as having a...

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Information age to genetic revolution: Embodied technology transfer and assimilation — A tale of two technologies

Das, Gouranga Gopal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In this paper, a fifteen regions–fifteen sectors global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is calibrated. It offers quantitative enumeration of 5% exogenous biotechnological invention in USA in genetically modified crops namely, maize grains and soybean. Consequently, it results in...

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The maximum incremental social tolerable irreversible costs (MISTICs) and other benefits and costs of introducing transgenic maize in the EU-15

Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara; Nillesen, Eleonora - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The decision to release a new transgenic crop variety for planting in the European Union (EU) is a decision under irreversibility and uncertainty. We use a real option model to assess the ex-ante incremental benefits and costs of the decision to release Bt maize and HT maize in the EU-15 member...

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Acceptance of biotechnology and social-cultural implications in Ghana

Quaye, Wilhemina; Yawson, Ivy; Yawson, Robert M.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Despite major scientific progress in the application of biotechnology in agriculture, public attitudes towards … biotechnology in general and genetically modified food (GM food) products in particular remain mixed in Africa. Examining responses … order to have clear and unbiased attitudes towards agricultural biotechnology in Africa, there is the need to substitute …

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Editor’s introduction. the future of agricultural biotechnology: creative destruction, adoption, or irrelevance?–in honor of Prof. Vittorio Santaniello.

Wesseler, Justus; Scatasta, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Biotechnology Research (ICABR) lost one of its most enthusiastic founders and most important contributors. This special issue … biotechnology issues by collecting high-quality, peerreviewed scientific contributions to the ICABR Conference held June 12-14, 2008 … in Ravello, Italy. The conference theme, The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology: Creative Destruction, Adoption, or …

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A stakeholder approach to investigating public perception and attitudes towards agricultural biotechnology in Ghana

Yawson, Robert M.; Quaye, Wilhemina; Williams, Irene E.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A stakeholder survey was conducted in Ghana to assess the level of public perceptions and acceptance of agricultural biotechnologies. A total of 100 respondents drawn from academia, Non-governmental organizations, business community, government and other stakeholders were interviewed on their...

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Transaction costs in biotechnology

Estrada, Fernando; Diaz, Natalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper aims to relate the principles of Ronald Coase Theorem with negative impacts of biotechnology, taking cases … of specific research groups and medium-sized companies in biotechnology. We consider an application of economic theory on … analyzing the political economy of biotechnology since the transaction costs can best viewed their limitations and the limited …

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