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Three Essays on Worker Turnover and Incentive Contracts in Labour Market Search Equilibrium
Zaharieva, Anna - 2010
Arbeitsmarkt und Prinzipal-Agent-Problemen aufgrund von asymmetrischen Informationen zwischen Firmen und Arbeitnehmern. Das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471691
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Social Dumping: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects
Dimitrova, Teodora - 2006
The Dissertation "Social Dumping: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects" consists in three logical parts, each of them analyzing the nexus labour standards - labour market outcomes - globalization. The first part, Chapter 2, is a theoretical analysis of the effects of globalization on the...
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Social Organization: Essays on the Need of Institutions and their Design
Leroch, Martin Alois - 2008
This thesis offers five self-contained essays on the need of institutions and their design. Each essay constitutes a chapter, the first of which offers a mathematical model showing the importance of external institutions for the existence of a society. More specifically, it is an extension of a...
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Sources of cross-sectional variations in stock returns and risk: an empirical analysis of emerging markets
Bai, Ye - 2007
It is well established in the financial economics literature that potential gains frominternational diversification are generated from the imperfect correlation betweennational stock market returns. This empirical study explores the factors that impedeperfect integration among national equity...
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SUSTAINABLE, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND LEGAL COORDINATES OF HUMAN WITH NATURE AND WITH OTHERS
IFTIME, Elena - 2016
Because man is a natural and social being at the same time, the imperatives of protection, conservation and sustainable development of the environment are related to both man’s relationship with nature, of which he is an integral part, and to his relationships with the others concerning the...
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Uncertainty and Climate Treaties: Does Ignorance Pay?
Dellink, Rob; Finus, Michael - 2009
Uncertainty and learning play an important role in addressing the problem of climatechange. In stylized game-theoretic models of international environmental treaty formation, which capture the strategic interactions between nations, it has been shown that learning usually has a negative impact...
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Implementing the New Ecosystem Services Mandate: A Catalyst for Advancing Science and Policy
Salzman, James; Ruhl, J.B.; Goodman, Iris - 2009
On April 10, 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly published final regulations defining standards and procedures for authorizing compensatory mitigation of impacts to aquatic resources the Corps permits under Section 404 of the Clean...
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The right to a healthy environment and sustainability
Petrea, Madalina Ioana - 2023
Climate change, especially global warming, which is at an alarming rate, makes us think about the future of the next generations and whether this future actually exists or not. The right we have to enjoy a healthy environment must be the legacy we leave behind and we have to learn to exercise it...
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Performance-Studie deutscher Familienunternehmen
Leiber, Marietta Kersten - 2008
Familienunternehmen durch den Einsatz vielf?ltiger Familienvariablen hinsichtlich der Aspekte Eigentum, Kontrolle und Management … differenziert. Als theoretische Grundlage dient die Prinzipal-Agenten-Theorie; verschiedene Agency-Konflikte insbesondere zwischen …. Theoretical considerations are based on principal-agent theory. The diverse potential agency conflicts in family vs. non …
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To Tip or not to Tip? An Exploratory Study of the Motivations Driving Consumer Tipping Behavior
Whaley, Jeremy E; O'Neill, Martin A - 2011
The paper attempts to shed light on the key drivers of consumer tipping behavior and reports the findings from an exploratory study aimed at addressing consumer motivations and their influence on consumers’ willingness to tip. When approaching the research issue, the phenomenon presents an...
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