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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"contract enforcement"”.
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Contract Norms and Contract Enforcement in Graeco-Roman Egypt
… explores the ethics and norms associated with contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt as a contribution to the institutional study of ancient contract and its relationship to the economic history of the Roman world. Although ancient contracts in the Hellenistic tradition (i.e., non-Roman law …
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Institutions and development: Evidence from Vietnam
… on Vietnam. The first paper, "Club Good and Contract Enforcement," investigates the contract enforcement power of the communities whose members participate voluntarily. By investing in club goods, communities can use the power to exclude members from such club goods as a threat against …
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Essays in Mutual Fund Performance, the Home Equity Bias and the Effects of Financial Frictions on Output and Occupational Choice
… the effects of such financial frictions as poor contract enforcement and intermediation costs on occupational choice and output.
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Output performance, institutions and structural policy reforms for transition economies
… reform (INSTREF), and property rights and contract enforcement institutions (PCINST and ROLINST) are very important determinants of output levels when the whole transition period dataset is used, and very important determinants of both the output levels and output growth rates when the …
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Why Don't Small-Scale Producers Supply French Bean Export Markets in Kenya?
… has structural features - including imperfect contract enforcement, partner search frictions, and limited persistent benefits from contracting - which may help deter small-scale producers from participating in the market.
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Banking in Transition Countries
… but at the country level, the efficiency of contract enforcement matters the most.
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Essays on trade and capital flows in developing countries
… starts with the observation that institutions - contract enforcement, property rights, investor protection, and the like - have received a great deal of attention in recent years. I propose a simple model of international trade in which institutional differences are modeled within the …
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Countries of Latin America: A Comparative Study The Cases of Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba
… Venezuela, for fear of expropriations, lack of contract enforcement or protection to the investor. Latin American countries must be aware that raising their social and economic outcomes will help them to attract FDI inflows.</p>
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Essays on Development Economics
… such as limited access to credit, poor contract enforcement, political instability, and inadequate infrastructure for transportation. For governments, resources are typically scarce, and information asymmetries can be high due to the prevalence of informal economies. Meanwhile, …
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Kolektyvinių sutarčių vykdymo kontrolė ir atsakomybė už kolektyvinės sutarties nevykdymą /
… their situation comparing to laws in some contracts are established but there are different examples, too. The collective contract enforcement concept, separate entities capable to perform control that is granted to non-state and state are also discussed. The non-governmental control is …
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Essays on International Macroeconomics and Trade
… of heterogeneity in price stickiness and contractual vulnerability within an open economy context. Particular attention is given to the effects of these frictions on sectoral variables during economic downturns. Chapter 1 documents that U.S. producer prices of differentiated goods barely …
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Agricultural tenancy and contracts: an economic analysis of the strange farmer system in the Gambia
… and analyzes the structure of strange farmer contracts within the context of rural production relations; ie. the relations of economic agents to resources of production in terms of their use and ownership rights and the relations between economic agents as principals (ie. landlords) and agents …
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Bank Ownership and Lending Behaviour
… information sharing environment and efficient contract enforcement facilitates bank lending in not only during normal times, but also during crisis periods. Furthermore, this study also finds that domestic bank lending is more sensitive to the strength of the information sharing facilities, …
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Essays on strategic social interactions : evidence from microfinance and laboratory experiments in the field
… study the role social interactions may play in contract enforcement and in determining the scope of co-investment. We perform laboratory experiments in Indian villages with non-anonymous participants, where participants play basic two-party trust games with a sender and receiver. In some …
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A Study of Human Decision-Making in Economic Games
… performance of a variety of compensation contracts. This study creates an environment in which individuals are paid via common payment mechanisms employed in the dual-principal agent relationships (Piece Rate, Flat Rate, Salary, Bonus and Socialization) and examines the effect that …
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The institutionalization of professional communities: Insights from studies of professionals in Hungary
… elements of the institutional framework behind contractual relationships, as several functions of BAs contribute to perceived internal and external trust in business partners. 3.3: BA membership in general does not increase credible commitment among business partners. However, BAs with functions …