The first essay is on TRIPS (trade related intellectual property rights), biodiversity and North-South trade. This … essay explores how true North-South trade and different IPR (intellectual property rights) regimes affect the level of … not include true North-South trade. Another result, and one that departs from existing literature, is that positive levels …

of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational … wage and salary income. The emphasis is on the United States and other advanced industrial countries, with some discussion … of the relevance of the theory and analysis to developing economies. …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

subsectors, at least not given the used identification strategy. This could be due to the fact that this theory regards the …

currently ship in single trailer truckload quantities. Annual lane volume, lane distance, and annual lane ton-mileage appeared …

This paper examines the effect of organizational distance (i.e. distance between the headquarters of the bank that … the recent lender based theory of collateral (Inderst and Mueller (2007)). We find that, for the average borrower, the use …

, namely commuting. This leads to us to construct a new indicator which we call social productivity. Our conclusion is that our …

possible commuting destinations is bounded and the maximum distance a worker is willing to commute is determined by exogenous … region within a maximal acceptable commuting distance thereby substantiating the use of "hurdle" models for empirical … analysis of commuting. Empirical results based on estimation of the zero-inflated negative binomial model support the …

markets are not bound by county lines, commuting and migration are important factors to consider when measuring employment …, in-commuting, and out-commuting. The model was estimated using Ordinary Least Squares regression and was simulated to … predict changes in labor force, unemployment and commuting as a result of a change in employment for all 105 Kansas counties …

. Conditional tour models describe timing, location and access mode of on-tour activities. The system captures trade-offs people …. Estimation results match a priori expectations of lifestyle effects on activity selection, including those of (a) household …