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environment facing the developing countries and, in particular, the issues of export-led strategies and North-South trade in … armaments. Third, the pricing of exhaustible resources, including oil, as a major issue in North-South trade, and in the …
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-territorial policy responses to such issues as trade, finance, the environment, human rights and human security. The copyright of this … on political economy, security, norms and identity, environment, human rights, migration and human security in Northeast …
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An overview of the fundamental issues in the production, trade and regulation of organic products. It notes the … changing consumer and trade environments that are driving organics beyond the realm of niche products toward an increasingly …
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innovation. In other words, competitiveness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for continued prosperity. Hence, the need …
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countries, while chapter 3 extends the analysis to include international trade - or "competitiveness" - as well. The main …. Chapter 4, which focuses on the relation between innovation-diffusion, structural changes in world trade and export … changes in world trade in the Post-War period were most favourable for countries with a high level of national technological …
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Abstract Constant Market Share Analysis (CMSA) is a method which decomposes the variation of market shares of any trader country. The more recent version is proposed by Fagerberg and Sollie (1985) that avoids some limits deriving from previously specifications. After explicating how CMSA works,...
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The aim of this paper is to elaborate an evaluative framework of religious choice within the early Christian communities reconstructed through the narrative of a New Testament Epistle, 2Peter, based on an economic approach to moral dilemmas identified in this context. Thus the work concentrates...
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Individuals bring effort to a group to achieve a common objective. Group membership introduces a free riding incentive, reducing effort, as well as a social responsibility incentive, increasing effort. This paper shows that the free riding effect is stronger. Individuals significantly reduce...
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We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...
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This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the prize, and two weak players, with lower valuations. In contests where individual efforts are perfect substitutes, all players expend significantly higher efforts than predicted...
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