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'Triad' or 'Tetrad'? On Global Changes in a Dynamic World

Glänzel, Wolfgang; Debackere, Koenraad; Meyer, Martin - 2008

The US-EU race for world leadership in science and technology has become the favorite subject of recent studies …. Studies issued by the European Commission reported the increase of the European share in the world's scientific production and … announced world leadership of the EU in scientific output at the end of the last century. In order to be able to monitor those …

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Currency, Liquidity and Debt Crises

Gurdgiev, Constantin - 2008

In many theoretical models of debt crises, the operative trigger for the run on sovereign debt is a shortage of the liquidity reserves necessary to finance short-term debt services. As a result, the concept of a solvent, illiquid sovereign debtor has generated significant literature on debt...

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Industrial Development and Innovation : Some Lessons from Vaccine Procurement

Srinivas, Smita - 2014

This paper suggests that demand instruments of international vaccine procurement, instead of being seen primarily as a global management instrument, can usefully induce industrial change and technological innovation through improved technical standards and regulations. The example of Indian...

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Explaining Cosmetic Compliance with International Regulatory Regimes : The Implementation of the Basle Accord in Japan, 1998-2003

Chey, Hyoung-kyu - 2008

The contemporary debate on compliance with international regulatory regimes centres around three competing approaches to the issue of non-compliance: the enforcement approach, the management approach and market-based approach. However, the analysis of domestic political causes of non-compliance...

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The Product Life Cycle in the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market, 1968-1982

Greenstein, Shane M.; Wade, James B. - 1998

We investigate product life cycles in the commercial mainframe computer market. We use hazard models with time-varying covariates to estimate the probability of product exit and Poisson models to estimate the probability of introduction. We measure the importance of different aspects of market...

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Financial Flows and International Imbalances - The Role of Catching-up by Late Industrializing Developing Countries

Kregel, Jan A. - 2008

While the traditional approach to the adjustment of international imbalances assumes industrialized countries at a similar level of development and with similar production structures, such imbalances have historically been the result of a process of catching up by lateindustrializing developing...

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Transnational Communities and the Concept of Law

Cotterrell, Roger - 2008

The proliferation of forms of transnational regulation, often unclear in their relation to the law of nation states but also, in some cases, claiming authority as law, suggests that the concept of law should be reconsidered in the light of processes associated with globalisation. This article...

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Private Parties and WTO Dispute Settlement System

Alemanno, Alberto - 2013

This chapter examines the (non) role that private business operators play in the implementation of WTO Dispute Settlement Reports. More precisely, by analysing the legal status of these decisions in national and regional law, it looks at what individuals are entitled to obtain when a WTO Member...

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Family Values and Business Ethics : An International Study

Bernardi, Richard A.; Long, Shelby P. - 2008

This study compares the attitudes of international college students concerning personal versus business ethics, the environment, and competition. The sample consists of 999 business students from Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Spain, and the United States....

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Regulating Ocean Noise : A Collaborative and Creative International Approach

Andrews, Helen - 2008

There is growing scientific evidence that noise generated by activities such as shipping, naval exercises and seismic surveys causes harm to marine mammals. Strandings of whales were tentatively linked with nearby seismic and sonar activities as early as 1960 and documented strandings since the...

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