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Institutional Competition

Author : Andreas Bergh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848441231
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Competition written by Andreas Bergh and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has much to commend it, because of the richness and diversity of the issues addressed. Indira Rajaraman, Tax Justice Focus The volume offers substantial insights into the nature of institutional competition, focusing mostly on governmental institutions, and shows the many subtleties in understanding and analyzing the role of institutions. Institutional competition is a small subset of institutional analysis, but an important one, and while the volume does cover the more familiar tax and expenditure topics, it also delves more deeply into the subject. Randall G. Holcombe, Public Choice While economists typically praise the merits of competition among market-based enterprises, they are not so sure when it comes to competition among institutions, especially governments. I am aware of no better source for thoughtful reflection on competition among institutions than the ten essays presented in this book. Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, US Why is competition between institutions usually viewed in a negative light, when competition is considered positive in most other economic contexts? The contributors to this volume introduce new perspectives on this issue, analytically and empirically exploring reasons for this perception. Negative assessments of institutional competition emphasize that such competition may lead to a race to the bottom in terms of eroding government revenues, redistributing wealth from workers to capitalists, and limiting democracy by forcing politicians to prioritize international investment capital rather than working for their voters. In this volume, however, many of the essays draw attention to the positive learning and information effects. The contributors conclude that competition may actually lead to institutions becoming more efficient in allocating resources. Students and scholars of economics, political economy, international relations and political science will find the book s non-traditional take on institutional competition a must-read, as will policy analysts and those with an interest in taxation and welfare states.

College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition

Author : Jennifer Lee Hoffman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429679947
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition written by Jennifer Lee Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition interrogates the relationship between athletics and higher education, exploring how college athletics departments reflect many characteristics of their institutions and are also susceptible to the same challenges in delivering on their mission. Chapters cover the historical contexts and background of campus athletics, issues and institutional tensions over market pressures, the spectacle of college athletics and how this spectacle influences athlete experiences, and the ways in which leaders are navigating these issues. Through stories of higher education that focus on the ways athletic departments leverage their institutional values, this book encourages readers to examine the purpose, mission, and academic values of their institutions, and to evaluate the role of their athletic programs, to improve outcomes and experiences on campus for students and student-athletes alike.

Competition among Institutions

Author : Luder Gerken
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349242624
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Competition among Institutions written by Luder Gerken and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-01-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists generally accept that competition discloses knowledge, enhances efficiency and restrains power. However, these effects of competition have so far been discussed mainly with respect to economic markets in which firms and households compete within a given set of institutions, that is within a given legal order. The question arises whether competition may also have comparable effects on the institutional level in the sense of competition among legal orders and thus serve as an antidote to today's problems. The present book addresses some of the fundamental aspects associated with institutional competition and identifies some possible lines for further research on how institutions can compete to bring about social and economic change.

Institutional Economics

Author : Wolfgang Kasper
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781006636
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Economics written by Wolfgang Kasper and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised, extended and updated edition of a critically acclaimed textbook provides an accessible and cohesive introduction to the burgeoning discipline of institutional economics. Requiring only a basic understanding of economics, this lucid and well-written text will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students wanting to understand the problems of the real world Ð such as entrepreneurship, innovation, the cost of the welfare state, international financial crises, and economic development. As institutional economics is now revolutionising policy making, the book can also serve as a guide to the pressing problems facing policy makers in mature and emergent countries alike. Key features include: ¥ A short ÔPrimerÕ at the beginning of each chapter to highlight the main issues and their relevance. ¥ Key Concepts such as ÔinstitutionsÕ, Ôeconomic orderÕ, Ôcoordination costsÕ, ÔcompetitionÕ and Ôpublic policyÕ are highlighted and clearly defined. ¥ International coverage is ensured as the three authors, experienced academic teachers, work in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific.

When Small States Make Big Leaps

Author : Darius Ornston
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465524
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book When Small States Make Big Leaps written by Darius Ornston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the twentieth century, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland emerged as unlikely centers for high-tech competition. In When Small States Make Big Leaps, Darius Ornston reveals how these historically low-tech countries managed to assume leading positions in new industries such as biotechnology, software, and telecommunications equipment. In each case, countries used institutions that are commonly perceived to delay restructuring to accelerate the redistribution of resources to emerging enterprises and industries. Ornston draws on interviews with hundreds of politicians, policymakers, and industry representatives to identify two different patterns of institutional innovation and economic restructuring. Irish policymakers worked with industry and labor representatives to contain costs and expand market competition. Denmark and Finland adopted a different strategy, converting an established tradition of private-public and industry-labor cooperation to invest in high-quality inputs such as human capital and research. Both strategies facilitated movement into new high-tech industries but with distinctive political and economic consequences. In explaining how previously slow-moving states entered dynamic new industries, Ornston identifies a broader range of strategies by which countries can respond to disruptive challenges such as economic internationalization, rapid technological innovation, and the shift to services.

Institutional Economics

Author : Stefan Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108473245
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Economics written by Stefan Voigt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and clear introduction to the new institutional economics that summarizes current knowledge whilst addressing its gaps and weaknesses.

Political Competition, Innovation and Growth

Author : Peter Bernholz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642603246
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Political Competition, Innovation and Growth written by Peter Bernholz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume confronts an important historical hypothesis with empirical evidence from selected periods of history. The hypothesis in question states that competition among political and legal organisations in developing rules has been a crucial condition for liberty, innovation and growth in the history of mankind. It is due to Immanuel Kant, Edward Gibbon and Max Weber and has been revived and further developed by Nobel-Laureate Douglass C. North who contributes the first chapter. The volume brings together political economists, historians and legal scholars to discuss the role of political competition in the rise and decline of nations - both in theory and in a large number of case studies.

The Institutional Topology of International Regime Complexes

Author : Benjamin Daßler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198881924
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Institutional Topology of International Regime Complexes written by Benjamin Daßler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implicit topology of international institutional complexes varies greatly across policy areas. In some areas, the lion's share of everyday policy cooperation is shaped by a single institution with alternative and more regional institutions operating in its shadow. In other policy fields, institutional structures appear to be different, seeing a range of non-hierarchical, decentralized, alternative institutions. The Institutional Topology of International Regime Complexes: Mapping Inter-Institutional Structures in Global Governance provides a systematic conceptualization and explanation of the evolution of these varying institutional topologies underlying regime complexes across five issue areas of Global Governance: Intellectual Property Protection, Tax Avoidance, Financial Stability, Development Aid, and Energy Governance. By providing an empirically grounded, network-based conceptualization and mapping of institutional topologies, as well as a theoretical explanation for their variation across policy space and time, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of both the empirical manifestation of inter-institutional structures across various policy fields of Global Governance and the issue specific factors that shape the varying institutional trajectories spurring (de-) centralization. Daßler combines quantitative network analyses with qualitative case studies to trace institutional decentralization processes across five highly relevant issue areas of Global Governance. This volume shows how the nature of issue-specific cooperation problems translates into disparate structures among multilateral institutions occupying the same regime complex. In light of growing concerns about the future trajectories of Global Governance in times of heightened geopolitical tensions, Daßler offers a fresh perspective to comparatively capture the profoundly varying institutional landscapes across different issue areas and their associated challenges and benefits of multilateral cooperation. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, and environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states to supranational institutions, subnational governments, and public-private networks. It brings together work that advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

Political Competition and Economic Regulation

Author : Peter Bernholz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134086555
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Political Competition and Economic Regulation written by Peter Bernholz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of institutional, historical and descriptive detail.Using case studies from the US, Canada, Germany and Switzerland as well as the European Union and the global economy, this is the first book of its kind to e

The Institutional Economics of Russia's Transformation

Author : Anton N. Oleinik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351146432
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Institutional Economics of Russia's Transformation written by Anton N. Oleinik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies institutional theory to the analysis of the post-Soviet Russian economy to bring to light the reasons why reforms have gone awry. Emphasis is put on the elements missed in the early blueprints of reforms: constraints embodied in formal and especially informal institutions. Other aspects considered include the dominant model of power relationships and the networks of localized and personalized relationships among economic actors. The first part provides a general description of the core concepts of institutional theory, including both the 'old' institutionalism of T. Veblen and J. Commons and the 'new' institutional economics of R. Coase, O. Williamson and D. North, and in the second part an institutional model of the post-Soviet Russian economy is developed. In the course of the analysis the authors discuss such unresolved issues as post-privatization development in Russia and validity of the Coase theorem in the post-Soviet institutional context. Rich empirical data grounds the discussion throughout.

Institutional Economics

Author : Wolfgang Kasper
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutional Economics written by Wolfgang Kasper and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dense textbook for students and others with a basic understanding of economics. Introduces the idea of institutions as rules that constrain possibly opportunistic human behavior, protect individual spheres of freedom, help avoid or mitigate conflicts, and enhance the division of labor and knowledge, thereby promoting prosperity, which Wolfgang and Streit value over comfort. Under foundations they discuss human behavior, fundamental human values, and individual rules. Their applications include the institutional foundations of capitalism, the dynamics of competition, economic organizations, public policy as collective action, the international dimension, the evolution of institutions, alternative economic systems, and reforming the mixed economies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Competition in Higher Education Branding and Marketing

Author : Antigoni Papadimitriou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319585274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Competition in Higher Education Branding and Marketing written by Antigoni Papadimitriou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a critical examination of branding and marketing in higher education from national, regional, and global perspectives. Contributors with expertise in higher education, sociology, comparative and international education, marketing, rankings, and educational philanthropy use novel theoretical frameworks and cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the US to map the brandscape of higher education. Empirical cases and literature analysis show that brand building is becoming a deliberate goal for higher education. This book illustrates student-institution dynamics, as well as the critical role of policy and professionalization to support branding and marketing strategies in higher education in relation to equity.

An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties

Author : Jan Peter Sasse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 383496185X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties written by Jan Peter Sasse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are an important instrument for the protection of foreign direct investment (FDI). However, compared to international trade law, international investment law has so far received only little research attention from an economic point of view. By applying a law and economics approach, Jan Peter Sasse provides a systematic analysis of the way BITs function. He explains why BITs are more than just a signal, how they relate to institutional competition as well as to institutional quality and why transparency in international investment arbitration is hard to achieve and may even be detrimental.

Institutional Competition between Optional Codes in European Contract Law

Author : Alexander J. Wulf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658058013
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Competition between Optional Codes in European Contract Law written by Alexander J. Wulf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission of the European Union has identified divergences between the national contract laws of the Member States as an obstacle to the completion of the European Internal Market and put this issue on its highest political agenda. Alexander J. Wulf analyses and predicts the effects. The study is situated in the context of the recent developments in the discussion on European contract law. The book begins with an introduction to the economic and legal theories that serve as the rationale for the development of the line of argument. These theories are then applied to the issues involved in the current controversy on European contract law. The author develops a model that he uses to analyze the institutional processes of European contract law. Empirical data are employed to test this model and discuss the results. From his analysis the author develops criteria that can serve as a starting point for thinking about the economic desirability of an optional European contract law.

New Competition Jurisdictions

Author : Richard Whish
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857939521
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book New Competition Jurisdictions written by Richard Whish and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most thoughtful collection available of insights into the challenges facing new competition jurisdictions. Whish and Townley have brought together experts on approaches global, comparative and local, combined with fresh inter-disciplinary insights. By combining law, economics and political economy, what emerges are pointed commentaries, and a rich source of principles and pragmatism. This book will guide the creators and enforcers of new competition law regimes.' – Philip Marsden, Director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and OFT Board Member 'This is a wonderful volume filled with good ideas. It evolves from the Sixth Conference of ASCOLA, the world association of competition law professors, which asked a group of young scholars how new competition law systems can be made more effective, and challenged the conference participants to interrogate the ideas. the resulting book is an admirable collection of insightful papers and commentary. For all who are interested in advancing younger competition law systems and their supporting academic communities, this volume must be read.' – Eleanor Fox, New York University School of Law, US This book focuses on the problems faced by newly-established competition authorities, and on shaping policies and building institutions in those jurisdictions. In particular four key issues encountered by new competition jurisdictions are considered, namely: the challenges and obstacles to adopting competition laws; institutional challenges and choices, with a specific focus on deterrence; the global perspective, with a specific focus on mergers; and a discussion of how to help young academics in new jurisdictions. Theoretical analysis is informed by practice throughout, and in particular by those considered to be at the cutting edge, either working in new competition authorities or from specialists advising them on a daily basis (such as those in the OECD and UNCTAD). New Competition Jurisdictions will be of great interest to lawyers, economists, academics, judges and public officials working in the fields of competition law and policy.

Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law

Author : Michèle Schmiegelow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642546609
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law written by Michèle Schmiegelow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two countervailing challenges to theory and policy in law and economics. The first is the rise of legal origins theory, which denies the comparative law view of convergence between common law and civil law by the assertion of an economic superiority of common law. The second is the series of economic crises in the very financial markets on which that assertion was based. Both trends unsettled certainties about the rule of law and institutional economics. Meeting legal origins theory in its main areas of political science, sociology and economics, the book extends the interdisciplinary reach to neglected aspects of comparative law, legal history, dynamic econometric analysis and "quasi-natural experiments" with counterfactual evidence of different institutional regimes in divided countries. These combined methodological tools make tests of the economic impact of different legal origins much more reliable. This is shown for developed and newly industrialized countries as well as developing, transforming and emerging countries with or without financial center advantage, affected or not by financial crises. The Asian financial crises and the American subprime crisis have been, or could have been resolved using the resources of common law or civil law. These cases and data on access to justice in Africa, Asia and Latin America reveal the problem of substantive law remaining "law on the books" without efficient procedural rules and judicial structures. The single most striking common law-civil law divide is that lawyer-dominated common law procedure is slower and costlier than judge-managed civil law procedure. Countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Japan, and China show functional interaction between culture and law in legal reforms. Such interaction can reduce the occurrence of legal disputes as well as facilitate their resolution. It can use economic crises as catalysts for legal reforms or rely on regional integration, and it should replace the discredited method of legal "transplants" by sustained dialogue between legal advisors and all actors involved in legal reforms.

International Institutions and Multinational Enterprises

Author : John-ren Chen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845421670
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book International Institutions and Multinational Enterprises written by John-ren Chen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The analysis, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on the corporate governance of MNEs and to what extent their management takes into account the negative effects of their activities. Also discussed are: how nation states and international institutions control the activities of MNEs, and how the role and strategies of international institutions can be changed to minimise any negative effects without hampering the positive aspects and effects of MNEs. Besides the general questions of corporate governance, the fundamental differences between shareholder and stakeholder concepts are also carefully examined. A number of moral aspects in corporate governance are touched upon including the effect of international entrepreneurial activities on wages, labour markets and environmental issues. International Institutions and Multinational Enterprises is a fascinating book that will appeal to scholars of international and development economics, international business management and institutional economics. NGOs and policymakers involved in international trade, monetary and development policy formulation and associated institutions will also find much to interest them.