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Property Rights and Economic Development* [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and economic activity.
Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak
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Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights [PDF]

open access: green, 2001
This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system, innovators are paid for innovations directly by government (possibly on the basis of sales), and innovations pass immediately into the ...
Steven Shavell, Tanguy van Ypersele
openalex   +3 more sources

Energy consumption, economic growth and environmental sustainability: Evidence from China

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2023
This paper mainly investigated the interactions between energy consumption, economic growth, and the environment in China. The carbon dioxide emission intensity variable was introduced to represent the environmental variable. Data covered the period from
Gaolu Zou, Kwong Wing Chau
doaj   +1 more source

Energy Prices, Real Estate Sales and Industrial Output in China

open access: yesEnergies, 2018
A majority of energy is consumed to control the indoor environment for human activities and industrial production. The demand for energies for these two uses are reflected in demand for different types of real estate and the volume of industrial outputs.
K. W. Chau, Gaolu Zou
doaj   +1 more source

Improving control over euthanasia of persons with psychiatric illness: Lessons from the first Belgian criminal court case concerning euthanasia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundBelgium is one of very few countries that legally allow euthanasia for suffering caused by psychiatric illness. In the first criminal trial in Belgium of physicians involved in euthanasia, three physicians recently faced the accusation of ...
Marc De Hert   +10 more
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Intellectual Property Rights: Institutional Approach

open access: yesУправление, 2016
The authors consider the intellectual property rights from two points of view: legal theory and institutional economical theory. Contents of “intellectual property” and “intellectual rights” concepts have been revealed in this paper, and the necessity of
S. P. Rogozhin, S. L. Sazanova
doaj   +1 more source

Enforcement of Claims for Decision and Granting of Pension Benefits as Contract Staff of Various EU Authorities – Legal History of the Early Years of the EU as a “Teacher” and Expert “Tools of the Trade”

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2023
The question of entitlement to pension benefits based on temporary („freelance“) contracts with EU authorities arises precisely when these have not been explicitly excluded.
Thomas Gergen
doaj   +2 more sources

Property rights revisited [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Economy, 2020
Abstract Over the last 20 years, a large number of papers have tried to quantify the effect of property rights on a wide range of variables like growth, trade and to a lesser extent, inequality. However, these studies have been inherently limited by measures of the security of property rights that are currently available.
Bazoumana Ouattara   +2 more
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The effect of international energy prices on energy production in Sichuan, China

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2020
Sichuan Province is China’s leading natural gas and hydropower producer. This article tests for the effects of international energy (nominal) prices on natural gas and hydropower production in Sichuan.
Gaolu Zou, Kwong Wing Chau
doaj   +1 more source

Nonuniform Overlapping Method in Designing Microstrip Patch Antennas Using Genetic Algorithm Optimization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2015
Genetic algorithm (GA) has been a popular optimization technique used for performance improvement of microstrip patch antennas (MPAs). When using GA, the patch geometry is optimized by dividing the patch area into small rectangular cells.
J. M. Jeevani W. Jayasinghe   +3 more
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