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"Africa's China" : Chinese manufacturing investment in Nigeria and channels for technology transfer

Chen, Yunnan - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 19 (2021) 4, pp. 335-358

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The technology gap and the limit of imitation : an inspection of the strategy of "exchanging market for technology"

Zhang, Yabin; Wu, Jiang; Ai, Hongshan - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 7 (2009) 4, pp. 447-455

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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008

Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...

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Risk-taking tournaments: theory and experimental evidence

Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2008

We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow for all possible degrees of correlation between the...

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'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009

Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...

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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009

has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …

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Negative externalities and equilibrium existence in competitive markets with adverse selection

von Siemens, Ferdinand; Kosfeld, Michael - 2009

on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. …

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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

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Spatial analysis of competition among local governments and the price of land : the case of Zhejiang Province

Kajitani, Kai; Fujii, Daisuke - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 14 (2016) 3, pp. 229-242

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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