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Are there any distributive effects of land title on labor supply? Evidence from Brazil
de Moura, Mauricio Jose Serpa Barros; Ribeiro, Marcos; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
This paper investigates the effects of land titling on labor supply for households heads. The effect of legal ownership security on the adult labor supply is identified by comparing the impact of being part of, or excluded from, a land title program in a unique public intervention in two...
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An Analysis of the German Tenant Protection Law
Homburg, Stefan - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 149 (1993) 2, pp. 464-474
The article analyzes the welfare impact of Germany's tenant protection law. It shows why tenants do not demand protection in a market equilibrium, notwithstanding that moving expenses may be considerable. Under this assumption, tenant protection enforced by the law makes tenants worse off in the...
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Auf dem Weg zu einem Urheberrecht für das 21. Jahrhundert: Ideen für eine zukünftige Regulierung kreativer Güter
Kreutzer, Till - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 10, pp. 699-705
Moderne Technologien machen es den Nutzern möglich, sehr viel mehr urheberrechtlich geschützte Güter zu kopieren und weiterzugeben, als dies noch vor 50 Jahren der Fall war. Das Urheberrecht kann die Rechteinhaber derzeit nicht effektiv schützen. Es müsste gründlich reformiert werden, um...
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The Value of Contracts from a Notarial Institutional Perspective
Lazar, Roxana Elena - In: CES Working Papers 4 (2012) 3, pp. 356-363
The starting point of the theory of contracts coincides with the Roman era, but the moment related to the strengthening of the contract theory is the "social contract". Another episode relevant to this theory is represented by the trend "institutionalism". The institutional value has...
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Controversies over the moral justification for patent protection in biotechnology
Karbowski, Adam - In: Annales. Ethics in Economic Life 21 (2018) 5, Special Issue, pp. 57–66
This paper discusses the controversies over the moral justification for patent protection in biotechnology. Special … emphasis has been put on the controversy over the moral justification for patent protection of stem cells. By referring to … arguments for (1) human dignity and (2) patentability criteria, the moral justifiability of patent protection of stem cells is …
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Institutional Quality of the Business Environment: Some European Practices in a Comparative Analysis
Marinescu, Cosmin - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 15 (2013) 33, pp. 270-287
In contemporary economic literature, we can find plenty of theoretical and empirical approaches which seek to highlight the most appropriate factorial variables that are associated with the institutional quality of the business environment. This study presents, in a summarised version, the...
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Injunctions and Hold-up under Weak Patent Protection
Sim, Kyoungbo - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 42 (2020) 2, pp. 1-30
This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …
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Die Problematik der Nutzung von Zwangslizenzen durch Staaten ohne eigene Pharmaindustrie
Fausch, Nicole Zürcher - In: Aussenwirtschaft 57 (2002) 4, pp. 495-522
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Constitutional Economics, Human Rights and the Future of the WTO
Petersmann, Ernst-Ulrich - In: Aussenwirtschaft 58 (2003) 1, pp. 47-92
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Effects of diverse property rights on rural neighbourhood public open space (POS) governance: Evidence from Sabah, Malaysia
In: Economies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-33
There are severe issues of public open space (POS) underinvestment and overexploitation. However, few studies have been conducted on the property rights structure and its impacts on rural commons governance, specifically concerning local neighbourhood residential POS quality and sustainability....
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