Building a circular economy in Romania has raised several challenges, specifically referring to the management of electronic waste. Although Romania has made significant progress in the collection, recycling, and recovery of large waste, little attention has been paid to recycling small...

The European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (the Observatory) was created to improve the understanding of the role of intellectual property and of the negative consequences of intellectual property rights (IPRs) infringements. The sectorial studies published during...

The Coordinated Activities on the Safety of Products (CASP) projects enable all market surveillance authorities (MSAs) from European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries to jointly ensure that unsafe products are swiftly removed from the Single Market. This activity focused on...

Introduction Part I: The conceptual framework of nostalgia in brand management Introduction to Part I 1. The concept of nostalgia in marketing 2. Nostalgic branding 3. Consumers motivations and behaviours in context of nostalgia-oriented purchase Part II: Nostalgic branding in toy industry -...

We provide a thorough analysis of the path-dependent volatility model introduced by Guyon proving existence and uniqueness of a strong solution, characterising its behaviour at boundary points, providing asymptotic closed-form option prices as well as deriving small-time behaviour estimates

Chinese products have entered in India in a big way. You will see them on roads. The hawkers, pull carts in addition to shops are selling them in India. Some have a fixed price tag like “Any item for Rs 30/-“. Some sell different items for different prices. Some sell same items for different...

Since its founding, Amazon has established a reputation for being consumer friendly by consistently offering low prices. However, recent antitrust concerns about dominant online platforms have revived questions about whether Amazon uses its market share to exploit consumers. Using the sudden...

We study financial returns on alternative collectible investment assets – toys - using LEGO sets as an example. Such iconic toys with diminishing over time supply and high collectable values appear to yield high returns on the secondary market. We find that LEGO investments outperform large...

Since its founding, Amazon has established a reputation for being consumer friendly by consistently offering lower prices than its market position would seem to allow. However, recent antitrust concerns about dominant online platforms have revived questions about whether Amazon's growing market...

"The extraordinary inside story of the LEGO company--producer of the most beloved and popular toy on the planet--based on unprecedented access to the founding family that still owns the company, chronicling the brand's improbable journey to become the empire that it is today"--

We study a new alternative investment asset - LEGO sets. LEGO is an iconic toy with diminishing over time supply and a high collectable value. A huge secondary market for LEGO sets with tens of thousands of transactions per day has developed since the turn of the century. We find that LEGO...

This paper gives an insight into safety, security, privacy and societal questions emerging from the rise of the Internet of Toys. These are Internet connected toys that constitute, along with the wave of other domestic connected objects, the Internet of Things, which has increased the ubiquity...

This paper gives an insight into safety, security, privacy and societal questions emerging from the rise of the Internet of Toys. These are Internet connected toys that constitute, along with the wave of other domestic connected objects, the Internet of Things, which has increased the ubiquity...

This paper gives an insight into safety, security, privacy and societal questions emerging from the rise of the Internet of Toys. These are Internet connected toys that constitute, along with the wave of other domestic connected objects, the Internet of Things, which has increased the ubiquity...

Directive 2009/48/EC on the safety of toys aims at ensuring a high level of safety for children while safeguarding the free movement of toys in the EU. This study assesses the relevance of the Directive in addressing current needs, effectiveness and efficiency of its provisions, its coherence...

The European Commission mandated the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) to consider whether a revision of the migration limits for chromium VI in toys or components of toys, is necessary in view of new available evidence, in particular, with regard to the potential...

We expand the set of outcomes considered by the tournament literature to include draws and use games from post-war chess tournaments to see whether strategic behavior is important in such scenarios. In particular, we examine whether players from the former Soviet Union acted as a cartel in...

The substance tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate (TCEP) is an alkyl phosphate ester used as a flame-retardant plasticiser and viscosity regulator in polyurethanes, polyester resins, polyacrylates and other polymers. The main industrial branches in which TCEP has been used are the building industry...

We examine the pricing trends in the online toy markets by using panel data regression models with error components and serial correlation. Our results indicate that both online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRS) and dotcoms charge similar prices on average, and that over time their...

The views of some influential economists and legal experts to the contrary, in most instances consumer goods manufacturers can solve a special services free rider problem more effectively by adopting a program of promotional allowances that pay the retailer upon proof of performance than by...

We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the same opponent. We present a model that explains how equilibrium play is affected when players change their choice of strategy when receiving additional information from each...

We study and contrast pricing and price evolution of online only (Dotcom) and online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRs) based on two panel data sets collected from online toy markets. Panel data regression analyses reveal several interesting empirical results: over time, OBMCRs and...

We study and contrast pricing and price evolution of online only (Dotcom) and online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRs) based on two panel data sets collected from online toy markets. Panel data regression analyses reveal several interesting empirical results: over time, OBMCRs and...

We study and contrast pricing and price evolution of online only (Dotcom) and online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRs) based on two panel data sets collected from online toy markets. Panel data regression analyses reveal several interesting empirical results: over time, OBMCRs and...