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Virtual institutions
This thesis establishes Virtual Institutions as a comprehensive software engineering technology for the development of 3D Virtual Worlds that require normative regulation of participants’ interactions (such as the commercially-oriented Virtual Worlds). 3D Virtual Worlds technology currently offers …
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Rules And Institutions
… be kept. The second essay argues that social institutions are identical to agents' following, and being believed to follow, rules of action, and uses this perspective to analyse the existence of property rights. The third essay uses the assumption of costly monitoring of worker malfeasance and …
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Sustainable higher education institutions : sustainable development challenges of portuguese higher education institutions
Esta investigação insere-se no domínio do desenvolvimento sustentável das instituições de ensino superior (IES). O seu desenvolvimento foi aplicado às IES portuguesas. Atualmente são conhecidas diferentes práticas internacionais das IES face ao desenvolvimento sustentável. No entanto, em Portugal, …
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Time, Institutions, and Energy
It has become apparent to me that time, institutions, and energy are three critical factors with significant implications for entrepreneurship. Time and energy are integral concepts to our existence as evidenced by their frequent usage in conventional language. Institutions are the overarching …
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Institutions and Drug Markets
This thesis examines how drug policy and enforcement affect drug manufacturers. The approach taken is a comparative institutional analysis of cannabis and methamphetamine production. I focus on the effects of prohibition, privacy, and clandestine markets on producer behavior for these two drugs and …
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Inflation, Institutions and Preferences
Contains fulltext : 147045.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Institutions and economic development
… studies with an attempt to assess the role of institutions as key determinant of cross-country development. We have unbundled the different facets of institutions, including the security of property rights, democracy, regulation and stability of monetary policy. In Chapter 2, we investigate the …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
… an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
… an introductory chapter on growth, development, institutions, and transition, this thesis presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what …
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Essays on financial institutions
In the first chapter, I study how banks lend or borrow liquidity in the interbank market and what I can learn about the macro-economy from the interbank market. From a unique database of interbank loan transactions in Mexico, I observe that interest rates vary across different lender-borrower …
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An exploratory study of agreements between institutions of higher education and correctional institutions
… in medium and maximum security correctional institutions in the Commonwealth during November 1986. Surveys and interviews were used to obtain individual perceptions of responsibilities to be assigned to colleges and correctional institutions when agreements are for educational programs are …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
In this paper I explore the effects of political institutions—historical tax structure, political party power, neocorporatism, and federalism—on the implementation of explicit carbon tax (ECT) policies. This represents one of the first quantitative studies of ECT adoptions. The event history …
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Essays on resources and institutions
… covering two sets of issues linking resources to institutions. Chapter 1 provides a summary of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides a general overview of the resource curse literature, emphasising the role of institutions, the nature of the political regimes in resource-rich countries and the link with …
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Employee training by business institutions
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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Essays on Institutions and Inequality
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Essays on Labor Market Institutions
… about the impacts of different labor market institutions. In the first chapter (joint with Sean Wang), we study the effect of private-sector unionization on establishment employment and survival. Specifically, we analyze National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) union elections from 1981 to 2005 …
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
… investigate the empirical relationships between institutions (formal and informal), entrepreneurial outcomes (productive and unproductive), and shadow economy size at the U.S. state-level. Chapter 1 opens with some discussion of the topics explored here and provides an overview of important …
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Institutions and uncertainty: An empirical investigation
This thesis presents four papers on the role institutions (defined as Douglass North defined institutions) play in generating uncertainty. Specifically, we focus on how uncertainty changes as institutions change. The thesis is empirically focused. In answering our research questions, we employ, …
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Institutions and development: Evidence from Vietnam
The dissertation is composed of three papers on institutions and development, with special focus 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, …
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