Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage? While it is established that a country's aggregate endowment of human capital is an important determinant of comparative advantage, this paper investigates whether the distribution of skills in the labor force can play a role in the...

This paper builds on Rosen (1981) and Hvide (2002) to provide a simple framework that elucidates the nature of incentives in the tournaments among top executives in both the external managerial labor market for the top executive positions in other companies and within the executives' own firm...

The EPCglobal Network is an emerging global information storage and retrieval system for objects that carry RFID tags with an Electronic Product Code (EPC). To locate specific information sources for an object, a so-called Object Naming Service (ONS) is used. This chapter discusses privacy and...