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Rethinking Local Commons Dilemmas: Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field
Cardenas, Juan Camilo - 2002
"In particular, the academic debate over the best prediction about the behavior of people that use a common-pool resource (CPR), and the recommended policy approaches to the CPR dilemma have undergone a very interesting evolution throughout the last 3 decades of the pastcentury, since the...
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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Dürsch, Peter - 2010
vergleichen das Verhalten der Teilnehmer in zwei Situationen: Certain Punishment, in welcher ein Gefangenendilemma um eine … Versuchsanordnung gibt. In beiden Fällen kooperieren risikoaverse Teilnehmer gleich häufig im Gefangenendilemma und bestrafen mit … einmaligen Gefangenendilemma? In unserem Experiment beobachten wir, dass Experimentalteilnehmer so gut wie nie bestrafen …
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Canada-India firm collaboration in health biotechnology
Ray, Monali; Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla - 2008
Strategic alliances are of critical importance to firms working in the health biotechnology2 field. Collaborations can provide firms with significant competitive advantages, shape their economic performance and help minimize risks in development activities (Hagedoorn, 1993). Alliances in the...
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Human resource management and learning based on in-house R&D in a developing country context
Santiago, Fernando; Alcorta, Ludovico - 2009
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management practices on the likelihood that a firm performs in-house R&D. The latter is broadly interpreted as learning---a mechanism promoting absorptive capacity and supporting technology capability-building in latecomer firms. The use of...
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Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Creation of Innovation Based Enterprises in India
Basant, Rakesh - 2006
pharmaceuticals- biotechnologysectors. It is built on the premise that ceteris paribus participation of Indian firms in IPcreation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476130
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Empirical Essays in Health Economics
Garthwaite, Craig Loren - 2009
Chapter 1: The Economic Effects of Medical Innovations: Vioxx and Labor SupplyDespite dramatic improvements in medical technology over time, comparatively little attention has been paid to the effect of these innovations on economic outcomes. This study uses seven overlapping panels of the...
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Essays on the distributional impacts of government
Siminski, Peter, Economics, Australian School of … - 2008
government.The first paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for pharmaceuticals amongst high-income older people in …
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions
Shepsle, Kenneth A. - 1983
"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...
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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research
Morgan, Betty - 1995
"The rapidly emerging 'new science' of nonequilibrium systems theory may offer common property researchers and scholars …. Deriving from the dynamical holism of quantum physics, nonequilibrium theory engages the spontaneity, chaos, interrelatedness … paper explores the aspects of nonequilibrium theory which may be instructive in an expanded vision of common property …
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