This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME - Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission - FP5 - Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007

Neben der Bewahrung der olympischen Idee und der Organisation der Olympischen Spiele liegt die Vermarktung des Wettbewerbs im Aufgabenbereich des IOC. Hierbei wird jedoch nicht nur die sportliche Leistung im Wettkampf vermarktet, sondern ein komplementäres Gut, bestehend aus der sportlichen...

The enforcement of social norms often requires that unaffected third parties sanction offenders. Given the renewed interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we report on the results of an experiment designed to...

Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la Kuznets), H (human capital based) and PD (post...

The main objective of this paper is to analyse some aspects of Japanese policy in the post World War-II period and understand how the various informal institutions (shared mental models) have influenced key dimensions of technology strategy with regard to the nature and trajectory of activities...

Compliance als Teilbereich der Corporate Governance betrifft zwar letztlich den Geschäftsalltag. Doch die hierbei genutzten Produkte bzw. Systeme werden vor ihrer Nutzung i. d. R. im Rahmen von Projekten - als üblicher Form zur Umsetzung von Vorhaben der Unternehmensentwicklung - geplant und...

We consider a dynamic model of conformity that permits both a conformist and non-conformist equilibrium. We provide conditions under which conformity can 'invade' a population. More precisely, starting from a non-conformist equilibrium, we show that the conformity of an arbitrarily small...