This paper investigates the strategies adopted by economic actors in the context of an institutional change. We base ourselves on data collected as part of an exploratory study in the sugar and fresh vegetable supply chains in Mauritius. The reform of the sugar protocol between the European...

Systemic economic transition is a process of determined radical institutional change, aprocess of building new institutions required by a market economy. Nowadays, the experienceof transition countries with the implementation of new institutions could be reviewedas a method of economic...

Guanxi, a type of particularistic trust observed in Confucian societies has mostly been viewed as a static phenomenon. It is not clear how the role of guanxi changes over time during institutional transitions. This field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two...

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...

Die Einbeziehung der privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV) in den Risikostrukturausgleich (RSA) der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) wird häufig diskutiert. In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand einer quantitativen Analyse unter Verwendung der Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP)...

This is a seminar based on research literature. Papers covered are selected to illustrate important problems and approaches in the field of computational and systems biology, and provide students a framework from which to evaluate new developments. The MIT Initiative in Computational and Systems...

We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linearprices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the caseof a fixed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes theresults of Gans and...