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Public e-procurement has enabled innovation in government and transformed technological platforms and the way governments procure goods and services and engage with suppliers (Hardy and Williams, 2007; Lee, Tan and Trimi, 2005; Moe, 2004). Leveraging information technology to achieve better information,...
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claims, contracting, and governance that determine vertical integration. He treats these institutions as common pool …
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"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play … molding and channeling preferences, institutions prescribe and constrain the set of choosing agents, the manner in which their … equilibrium outcomes in order to assess the importance of institutions for final outcomes. In so doing, we will have some …
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"The classical economists were primarily engaged in analysis of the wonder that is production. The marginalists, while laying the foundation of mathematical economics, shifted its focus to rational behavior of a single consumer, presumably because there they found a problem readily amenable to...
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common pool resource (CPR), simulating the effect of institutions as communication, allowance and monitoring of external …
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designed to create the incentive systems of alternative market and nonmarket economic institutions, allowing the researcher to …
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"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian … Institutions, the formal and informal rules that order and constrain human relations, affect three critical aspects of economic … individual and communal income and consumption. Here we examine primarily the role of agrarian institutions in containing risk or …
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; it is the ability of the state to set up institutions that reflect a harmony between knowledge and physical …
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institutions.There is widespread agreement among most economists on the positive reinforcing linkbetween innovation and growth …. However, the importance of institutions as catalysts in thislink has not been adequately examined. The concept of innovation … innovation systems are used as a foundation to propose a newperspective on the role of institutions and a framework for …
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National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers this hypothesis has been lacking. Using a World Bank datasets of about...
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