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Externalities and the Allocation of Decision Rights in the Theory of the Firm

Bester, Helmut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that have external effects on other members of the organization. Because of contractual incompleteness, monetary incentives are insufficient to internalize these effects in the decision makerâ€™s objective. The optimal...

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Der wirtschaftspolitische Dreischritt "Ziel - Lage - Maßnahme" in kognitiv-prozessualer Sicht

Koch, Lambert T. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Today's theorizing about economic policy is still dominated by a method of analysis that can be refered to as "instrumentalistic-technological". Especially typical for that method is the complete abstraction from cognitive-evolutionary aspects of economic-policy interaction. However, including...

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Pharmaceutical and Industrial Traits in Genetically Modified Crops: Co-existence with Conventional Agriculture

Moschini, GianCarlo - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2006

opportunities for the agricultural sector, but they also entail novel risks. The management of the externalities and of the possible …

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Ecological Economics of Water in China: Towards A Strategy for Sustainable Development

Khan, Haider; Liu, Yibei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze one important part of the emerging environmental problems in China--- water pollution. The importance of water for any nation is obvious. In case of China it acquires particular salience because of China’s industrial needs as well as human needs....

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Incorporating environmental institutions in environmental policy: changing behaviour by decisive information

Hammar, Henrik - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 2, pp. 170-178

In this paper, I discuss, from a policy perspective, the relation between environmental institutions and transaction costs. I stress the importance of environmental institutions in providing decisive information, i.e. information that induces changes in behaviour, and thereby facilitates...

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On Export Composition and Growth

Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo; Wörz, Julia - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 141 (2005) 1, pp. 33-49

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Heterogeneity vs. externalities in technological competition: A tale of possible technological landscapes

Dalle, Jean-Michel - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 7 (1997) 4, pp. 395-413

in a population of heterogeneous adopters with local or global externalities. The relationships between both … heterogeneity and externalities and imperfect and asymmetric information are first emphasized. When local externalities and … enough or with one of the technologies only surviving in technological niches when local externalities dominate. Niches do …

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Introduction of Software Products and Services Through "Public" Beta Launches

Mehra, Amit; Shrimali, Gireesh - NET Institute - 2008

Public “Beta” launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...

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Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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Is There Too Little Immigration?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper presents a model of legal migration from one source country to two host countries, both of which can control their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when...

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