Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek +3 more
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The History of Macroeconomics Viewed Against the Background of the Marshall-Walras Divide [PDF]
Analysing the recent history of macroeconomics, my paper claims that the new classical revolution should be viewed as a substitution of Walrasian macroeconomics to the earlier prevailing Marshalian macroeconomics. The first part of the paper is concerned
Michel, DE VROEY
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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
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The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure [PDF]
This paper proposes a functional approach to designing and managing the financial systems of countries, regions, firms, households, and other entities. It is a synthesis of the neoclassical, neo-institutional, and behavioral perspectives.
Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie
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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: Are Climate‐Smart Practices Important in Burkina Faso?
ABSTRACT In Burkina Faso, smallholder farmers rely heavily on rain‐fed agriculture, which is affected by climate change. The adoption of climate‐smart practices is essential to strengthen the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change and improve household food security and, consequently, global food security.
Benoit Bado +2 more
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Planning paradigms throughout economic history
Planning has always been an essential part of scientific and practical activities, driven by the need for purposeful development in science, technology and society.
Olha Kravchenko +3 more
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On the Scientific Status of Economic Policy: A Tale of Alternative Paradigms [PDF]
In the last years, a number of contributions has argued that monetary -- and, more generally, economic -- policy is finally becoming more of a science. According to these authors, policy rules implemented by central banks are nowadays well supported by a
Andrea Roventini, Giorgio Fagiolo
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Private or Public? Farmer Preferences and Identities in Agri‐Environmental Contract Implementation
ABSTRACT This study investigates farmer preferences for publicly and privately financed agri‐environmental contracts. Using a labelled Discrete Choice Experiment with 366 German grassland farmers, we examine trade‐offs between payment schemes (public/private), payment criteria (practice‐based/result‐based), collaboration options, and advisory services.
Christoph Schulze +3 more
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Evaluating Investment in Space Programs: A Case for Theoretical Pluralism
ABSTRACT A perennial question repeatedly asked since the early Mercury (USA) and Salyut (then Soviet Union) space programs has been variations on the theme of “how can the cost of space exploration be justified?” This question—which in broad terms constitutes the research question considered in this paper—continues to be directed toward space agencies ...
Basil P. Tucker, Hank C. Alewine
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