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Leadership and effective institutional economics design in the context of education reforms
Strielkowski, Wadim; Volchik, Vyacheslav; Maskaev, Artyom; … - In: Economies 8 (2020) 2, pp. 1-15
Nowadays, the most typical reforms in higher education are conducted through the reorganization of universities either … in the form of a merger, acquisition, or new status attainment. As a result, universities which educate local leaders for … imposed by the policymakers "from above" often hamper the development of universities and prevent them from fulfilling their …
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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana - 2013
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital.Both sectors exhibit...
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Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283617
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Forms, importance and working of social institutions
Vihanto, Martti - 2009
Social institutions are persistent regularities in contracting and other relations amongst men and in the unintended consequences of such rule-like behavior. They include morality and law as well as institutions of governance such as branding and advertising. Institutions are studied in all...
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Performing comparative advantage: The case of the global coffee business
Andriani, Pierpaolo; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2011
We posit that comparative advantage is discovered via alternative transactional regimes of trading. Transactional regimes are performative, based on different forms of embedded agency. The theory is applied on a study of Brazilian coffee business which manifests the increasing importance of...
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EU regional policy: Its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited
Schmidt, Peter - 2014
This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...
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Problematizações acerca do conceito de um "novo" estado desenvolvimentista
Fiani, Ronaldo - 2012
This paper aims to consider theoretically and in a preliminary way the most important features and problems concerning the concept of Developmental State, discussing the two issues that would be fundamental for its proper comprehension: (1) the issue about the objectives which characterize a...
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Tisztesség, empátia, közgazdaságtan
Károly, Fazekas - 2016
One of the basic premises of societies and economies is the capability of humans to understand and judge the aims and motivations of others. We are continuously observing the facial expressions of our fellows. We keep watching and try to understand the undercurrents of important events for us....
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The Random part in network evolution
Grebel, Thomas - 2009
Economic behavior strives for efficiency. Therefore, also evolving network structures should be a result of such a goal-oriented behavior. Traditionally, networks were assumed to be only temporary phenomena, since the prevailing organizational forms that comply with the efficiency postulate are...
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Changing economic systems and institutional dimensions of the Triple Helix model
Momeni, Farshad; Yazdi, Ali Arab Mazar; Najafi, Seyed … - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-12
In recent decades, many efforts have been put into understanding and determining key variables and factors affecting knowledge-based economy. Triple Helix model is a model with relative success in this regard; however, there is still a long way to go until it can provide policy makers and...
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