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Purpose – The Orphan Drug Act has provided the pharmaceutical industry with incentives to research and develop drugs for orphan diseases: rare diseases with little profit potential. It is considered very successful legislation by legal scholars, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how different actors interacted to influence local labour legislation in the case of the collective bargaining regulations in Guangdong Province, China, using long-term observation and in-depth interviews. Design/methodology/approach This paper...
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Purpose – Organizational life and policy making is increasingly conceived in terms of a “three sector” model – public, private and “third”. The purpose of this research paper is to examine a little‐studied phenomenon that increasingly characterises societies in both the...
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Opponents of the voluntary labeling scheme for genetically modified (GM) food products often argue that consumers have … the ?right to know? and therefore advocate mandatory labeling. In this paper we argue against this line of reasoning … quality of the informational signal generated by a mandatory labeling scheme is affected by the number of labels in the market …
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There are two important reasons for consumers to spend gift certificates differently than gifts in cash or non-gift income: a) they are forced to change their shopping pattern because of the conditions imposed by the issuer of the certificates, or b) they purposely separate gift certificates...
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We model firms’ quality disclosure and pricing in the presence of cursed consumers, who fail to be sufficiently skeptical about undisclosed quality. We show that neither competition nor the presence of sophisticated consumers necessarily protect cursed consumers from being exploited....
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Residential energy consumption has been increasingly singled out by public policies as a key area for potential emission reduction. The public implementation of energy efficiency consultants (EECs) as change agents aims at the diffusion of innovation in building efficiency and overcoming...
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biotechnology by placing the analysis of labeling decisions in a multi-country context. Specifically, the objective of this study is … biotechnology. The paper analyzes the strategic effects of national regulatory decisions on labeling of GM products and identifies … the determinants of the non-cooperative Nash equilibrium labeling regimes in a small number of producing countries that …
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presentation and comprehensibility of privacy policies. Drawing from nutrition, warning, and energy labeling, as well as from the …
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innovation, with emphasis on the question of GM labeling and the need for costly segregation and identity preservation activities … mandatory GM labeling regulation. We also investigate briefly a novel question in this setting, the choice of 'research …
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