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Using the Resource-Based Theory to Determine Covenant Not to Compete Legitimacy
(2012-05)
This paper addresses the legitimacy of competing interests involved in the enforcement of covenants not to compete (“noncompetes”). To date, the courts and legislatures have not relied on a principled theoretical framework ...
Human Rights and a Corporation's Duty to Combat Corruption
(2013-10)
Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as ...
The Reorientation of Transition Countries’ Exports: Changes in Quantity, Quality and Variety
(2003-11-01)
The paper analyzes the factors behind the reorientation of transition countries’ exports to their non-traditional partners outside their former block. First, the amount of reorientation is calculated using a gravity model. ...
Federalism as a Public Good
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
This paper suggests that stabilizing federalism is like solving a public good provision problem. It reviews results in the public good provision literature that are relevant for federalism, and discusses the implications ...
What happens when firms patent? New evidence from US economic census data
(2008-01)
In this study, we present novel statistics on the patenting in US manufacturing and new evidence on the question of what happens when firms patent. We do so by creating a comprehensive firm-patent matched dataset that ...
Employment, not Microcredit, is the Solution
(2007-01)
Most studies suggest that microcredit is beneficial but only to a limited extent. The problem lies not with microcredit but rather with microenterprises. With low skills, little capital and no scale economies, these ...
Some Fine-Tuning for Dominant Diagonal Matrices
(1988-07)
Given a linear system Ax=b, where A is a dominant diagonal matrix with positive diagonals and non-positive off-diagonals, but b as both positive and negative components, necessary and sufficient conditions on bj are derived ...