There is a major split between developed and developing countries over the protection of the patents in pharmaceuticals … organization. Incentives and threats are examined in the context of the TRIPS. It is concluded that developing countries have no … direct incentives to protect intellectual property, that the threat of trade actions is unlikely to induce compliance and …

contestants, rewarding schemes that depend linearly on the final score difference provide more efficient incentives for efforts …

obtain evidence on the effect of stronger incentives on productive and destructive effort. Using as control the behavior of … the same teams in a competition that experienced no changes in incentives, we provide differences-in-differences estimates …, and that indeed attendance suffered as a result of the incentive change. Thus, teams responded to stronger incentives, but …

We study managerial incentives in a model where managers take not only product market but also take-over decisions. We …

crucial to prioritise participation incentives for all countries, especially those without explicit or with insufficient … abatement targets. This paper offers a bottom-up game-theoretic perspective on participation incentives. Rather than focusing on … issue linkage, transfers or burden sharing as tools to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement, this …

requires narrowly-focused incentives around their area of responsibility. Functional managers become biased toward excessive …

This paper re-examines the incentives of mutual fund managers arising from investor flows. We provide evidence that the … implications of the time-varying convexity for the incentives of managers to alter strategically the risk of their portfolios. We …