This publication features conversations on antitrust law with Nobel Prize laureates in Economics and aims at understanding how useful their work could be to antitrust law. Given the rigor and importance of their body of work, antitrust scholars, lawyers, officials, and anyone who's interested in...

In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected acceptance of a referendum aiming at limiting free movement of persons. The referendum requires Switzerland to reintroduce annual quotas for immigrants within three years. The...

Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like a 'horse and carriage', it is not a straightforward one, more akin to 'love and marriage'. In this paper I explore the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I...

Korean Abstract: 본고는 중국 상장기업 데이터를 이용해 각 산업별 개별 기업들의 총요소생산성을 추정하고 시계열적 변화를 분석했다. 그 결과 첫째, 1999년 이래 기계, 전기 및 전자, 통신, 자동차산업의 생산성이 빠르게...

The corporate culture have grown and held considerable interest in the public life directly or indirectly and hence the imperative for bringing transparency and accountability among these corporate entities seemed as the requisite of present time. There were as many as cases where not just the...

China has a very suitable environment for the development of the express industry. The growth rate of online stores in the world has exceeded the GDP growth of China and other countries. In the past five years, the express service market of China had expanded rapidly, reaching an annual growth...

We conduct a welfare analysis of R&D subsidies and tax credits using a model of innovation policy in corporating externalities, limited R&D participation and finanial market imperfetions. We estimate the model using R&D projet level data from Finland. The optimal R&D tax credit rate (0.24) is...

While green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe, most U.S. cities have either struggled to implement them or do not have one at all. Consequently, these policies have not reached their potential to help local governments mitigate their...

Increasing concern about global sustainability has ushered in a diverse set of regulatory policies that aim to encourage sustainable practices and outcomes. This chapter sheds light on how these regulatory policies affect multiple aspects of companies' sustainable supply chain practices. It...