This paper explores the internal organization of production in technology firms. We propose that flat hierarchical organizations is the technology-intensive firm's response to the need for worker skill diversification in an environment where skills become obsolete very rapidly. If it is...

This paper presents the advantages of taking into account the distribution of the individual wage gap when analysing female wage discrimination. The limitations of previous approaches such as the classic Oaxaca-Blinder and the recent distributive proposals using quantile regressions or...

We analyze the optimal behavior of an organization when its employees can manipulate the organization's accounting system to their private advantage. We find that the organization may benefit by helping its employees manipulate the system. This help can reduce the employees' private returns from...

We investigate the valuation of platform investment, such as a software operating system or an internet portal webpage. Platform investment is the creation of an innovative distribution and production infrastructure which increases access to customers; as a result it reduces entry costs in...

This paper is interested to propose an alternative approach entitled the input-output multi-dimensional analysis. This approach is based on the interaction among four production sectors (agriculture, light industry, heavy industry and services) by quot;iquot; number of sub-sectors under the uses...

Recent socio-spatial studies point out a number of ongoing trends in the lsquo;scale division of labour of the state', including among others, lsquo;destatization', lsquo;denationalization' and lsquo;internationalization'. We draw on the literature in public economics to review several...

This paper examines the notion of exceptionalism, currently pervasive within constitutional discourse. The term ldquo;exceptionalrdquo; is used in this context to indicate a measure that deviates from normal constitutional standards and is, by virtue of that deviation, seen as inappropriate or...

This paper pinpoints optimal vertical arrangements in settings characterized by incomplete contracting and resale of an intermediate input (a ldquo;widgetrdquo;). In the Grossman-Hart-Moore property rights theory, we conclude that sometimes strictly complementary assets should be owned...

This paper adds to the existing literature on en banc rehearings in two ways. First, I incorporate theoretical results from the literature on Supreme Court certiorari decisions and argue that the ideological direction of panel decisions should influence the probability of en banc rehearing only...

The Coase Theorem suggests that married couples will divorce if and only if doing so increases their joint surplus, regardless of the legal rules governing divorce. This does not mean, however, that divorce laws only affect the distribution of rents. Because the distribution of rents affects...