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Financing the Celtic Tigress: Venturing Financing and Informal Investment in Ireland
O'Gorman, Colm; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2006
This study explores gender differences in entrepreneurship and informal investment in Ireland, a country with one of the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the developed world. Females in Ireland are less likely than males to be engaged in either the demand for (as entrepreneurs), or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437817
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Do Investor Capabilities Influence the Interpretation of Entrepreneur Signals? Theory and Testing in the Private Equity Setting
Gera, Azi - 2009
Informing outsiders of the potential and quality of the organization in a way that will benefit the organization and avoid putting it at risk is a challenging task in competitive settings. Under conditions of uncertainty, in which external entities are imperfectly informed about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450891
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Labeling Regulations and Segregation of First- and Second-Generation Genetically Modified Products: Innovation Incentives and Welfare Effects
Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - 2005
We review some of the most significant issues and results on the economic effects of genetically modified (GM) product innovation, with emphasis on the question of GM labeling and the need for costly segregation and identity preservation activities. The analysis is organized around an explicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443070
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INNOVATIONS AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX
Sobolevsky, Andrei; Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - 2002
We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443097
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The stock market and South Africa's economic development
Frank, Ashley Gavin - 2004
Financial liberalisation, through increasing investment as well as the average productivity of capital, should stimulate economic growth, or so the theory goes. Bank lending unfortunately suffers adverse selection and moral hazard effects, to which the establishment and expansion of stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457735
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Prioritizing Sustainability Projects with Low Market Value in Institutions of Higher Education: a green roof case study
Storm, Lenna A. - 2010
This thesis adds to the body of knowledge available to decision makers in highereducation by presenting a framework for why valuable sustainability projects are oftennot pursued on university campuses, and offers one approach to overcoming theperceived financial obstacles for making investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458917
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Making Economic Sense Out of Unisex Life Insurance (Or the Difference Between Cost and Value and Why It Matters to Real People)
Booth, Richard A., Marbury Research Professor of Law - 2002
In this piece, I take issue with one of the fundamental tenets of law and economics as it has been used to justify gender discrimination in the pricing of life insurance and annuities, namely, that individuals should bear their own identifiable costs so as to avoid misallocation of society's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432041
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How Do Economists Really Think About the Environment?
Fullerton, Don; Stavins, Robert N. - 1998
On a topic like the environment, communication among scholars from different disciplines in the natural and social sciences is both important and difficult, but such communication has been far from perfect. Economists themselves may have contributed to some rather fundamental misunderstandings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445416
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The future of the European Common Agricultural Policy : a new philosopy ?
Boussard, Jean-Marc - 2007
Presented at the policy workshop on:The role of agricultural and rural development in a changing international …On actual agricultural markets, price rarely equate marginal cost. Thus, agricultural policy should be focused on … generalized “quota” system would in addition provide safer instruments for environmental policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445747
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Policy and organizational implications of gender imbalance in the NHS
Miller, Karen - 2007
The purpose of the paper is to examine the policy and organizational implications of gender imbalance in management … micro and meso organizational dimensions which impact on women's ability to influence macro health policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435340