Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of...

Hungary is home to a great diversity of plant and animal species, whose preservation is of global value. This paper focuses on the institutional aspects of the research project on on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources in three Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Hungary (Dévaványa,...

In diesem Aufsatz wird ein Wettbewerbsleitbild vorgeschlagen, das auf den Ergebnissen der Neuen Institutionenökonomik und der Evolutorischen Ökonomik aufbaut. Um ein Leitbild zu gewinnen braucht man zweierlei, d.h. erfahrungswissenschaftliche Grundlagen und Überlegungen zu der Behandlung von...

The paper reconsiders arguments raised from the viewpoint of competition policy against Germany’s centralized Dual Management System for Packaging Waste Collection and Recycling. It is argued that centralization is the result of a basic principle of German waste management policy, namely, the...

"The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants' commercial...

Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos -- Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues -- Alternative uses of land and...