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Links between development and competition law in developing countries

The econometric literature on the effects of competition law on investment focuses almost exclusively on the consequences for inflows of foreign direct investment. What is more, the empirical papers in this literature can be counted on the figures of one hand and contain potentially contradictory findings. Precious little has been made of the potential effects of competition law…

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Strengthening institutional and capacity building in the area of Competition and Consumer Policy for the Central American countries: Cases of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

With the move towards democracy and measures to liberalise domestic sectors and foreign trade, policymakers in Central America and elsewhere have taken a greater interest in the linkages between consumer protection policies and economic and sustainable development. This has manifested itself in a greater commitment to implementing and enforcing national consumer protection statutes…

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Sustainability Impact Assessment of Proposed WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Competition

Discussions over the relationships between trade policy, competition policy and private anti-competition practices have been going on for a long time. This is not to say that the issues at the centre of the debate have remained the same over the years. In fact, since the Singapore Ministerial Declaration there has been a pronounced shift in emphasis away from the market access…

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Design and analysis of evaluation studies

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Propensity score matching without conditional independence assumption - with an application to the gender wage gap in the UK

revised version of Discussion paper 2002-08#### Propensity score matching is frequently used for estimating average treatment effects. Its applicability, however, is not confined to treatment evaluation. In this paper it is shown that propensity score matching does not hinge on a selection on observables assumption and can be used to estimate not only adjusted means but also their…

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The Trade Act Of 2002: The New Fast-track Authority And Its Implications For The WTO E-commerce Negotiations

Preliminary Draft of PhD Thesis' Chap. 4, Version of December 20, 2002####

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A Cybernetic Model to Enhance Organizational Intelligence

The present paper focuses on the modeling of cognitive processes in organizations. This issue is approached from the perspective of Organizational Cybernetics, the science of control and communication applied to the management of organizations. First, the Team Syntegrity Model is described, which provides a structural architecture for processes of planning, knowledge generation and…

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Modeling with Archetypes: An Effective Approach to Dealing with Complexity

In the face of growing complexities, agents who lead or manage organizations must revert to better models. This proposition is based on the Conant/Ashby Theorem, which says that the results of a management process are determined by the quality of the model on which that process is based. The author proposes that archetype-based modeling is a promising way to enhance the behavioral…

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