There is in Europe a trend for privatisation and commercialisation of technical extension services for agriculture. At the same time, extension is supposed to support the contribution of multifunctional agriculture (MFA) to rural development. This article proposes an analytic framework to test...

This study tests whether the Hirshleifer–Riley (HR) model predicts the values of information sources for a future hospital admission. The main testable prediction of that model concerns the values of information sources for those who intend to choose the same hospital again and those who...

The making of the information/knowledge society has driven a flourishing body of literature on the law and economics of copyright. This paper introduces the articles collected in the following symposium, produced by a number of scholars participating in the lively worldwide community devoted to...