RESUMENLas microempresas son muy importantes para la economía por generar empleo y renta. En este contexto, se tiene como objetivo trazar consideraciones sobre la competitividad de las microempresas en el campo de calzados en Juazeiro do Norte-CE en el año 2006. Para eso, fueron utilizadas...

This paper shows that up-front payments can play a crucial role in providing efficient investment incentives when contracts are incomplete. They can eliminate the overinvestment effect identified by Rogerson [1984] and Shavell [1980] when courts use an expectation damage remedy. This method...

Cartagena de Indias, declarada patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1984, fue fundada en 1533. El patrimonio inmueble de Cartagena representado en su arquitectura militar, religiosa, civil y domestica, unido a sus recursos naturales, playas, bahías, ciénagas y lagunas internas,...

Nowadays tourism represents a quite distinct field of human activity, a component of highest importance of the economic and social life for an ever larger number of countries on the globe. Tourism evolves constantly due to the changes occurring in contemporary civilization, its dynamics...

In the business-and-society literature and in the general press on whether business fulfils its social role responsibly. Business ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance movements have been developed in recent decades as responses to a growing sense of corporate...

In diesem Paper werden die Wohlfahrtseffekte einer kostenorientierten Regulierung von Netznutzungsentgelten zur Schaffung fairen Wettbewerbs abgeleitet. Es wird gezeigt, daß eine solche Regulierung nur im Falle starker Kostenvorteile eines vertikal integrierten Netzbetreibers im Vergleich zu...

Yang's theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale (Yang, 2001) is a formal development of the fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor. In this theory, specialization — and thus, the social division of labor — is...

In the paper, the concept of Walrasian sequential equilibrium is developed to formalize the notions of fundamental social and endogenous uncertainties and decentralized social learning. It predicts that social sequential experiments with efficient as well as inefficient network patterns of...

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