the retrospective and prospective view of the orphan drugs market in Europe (history, regulations, epidemiology, economic … model, monopoly, pricing, size / cover / limits of the market) ? …

principle. Although scarcity and its consequences for market economies are key aspects of mainstream economics, they have been … institutionally created. This type of scarcity encourages the process of market collectivization and empowers those generating it. The …

The capital market in Böhm-Bawerk's Positive Theory of Capital appears at several places. The last chapter of the book … provides the complete exposition of Böhm's view of this market where present goods are exchanged for future goods. Studying … ``enormous market''. The capital market is a macroeconomic system, the nature of which we try to assess. …

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affects their economic performance. We study a large business … across the performance distribution, we find that for undergraduates, three-women teams are outperformed throughout, but by … top, the best performing group is two men and one woman. The differences in performance are explained by differences in …

We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. Departing from the common practice of using … survival as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, we model both failure and cash-out (liquidity event) as conditioned by … also more likely to fail faster. Not only is survival a poor indicator of performance, but its use as one obscures the …

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …

How should organizations of intelligent agents be designed so that they exhibit high performance despite information … distortion? We present a formal information-based network model of organizational performance given a distributed decision making … environment in which agents encounter a radar detection task. Using this model, we examine the performance of organizations with …

Using financial measures of performance we investigate the sources of value creation in the U.S. brewing industry … between 1969 and 1979. We find that market share gains in this industry at this time are not correlated with changes in value … and that the performance of individual leading firms is highly correlated. Our interpretation is that the success of …

manufacturer size for each JIT practice. Ten changes in performance attributed to JIT implementation are also assessed and examined … the JIT practices and of each of the changes in performance in small and large manufacturers. The results of the study … performance attributed to JIT implementation vary, depending on implementation status of specific JIT management practices and …