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Human gene patents are patents on human genes that have been removed from human bodies and scientifically isolated and manipulated in a laboratory. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) has issued thousands of patents on such genes, and patents have also been granted by the European Patent Office, (the EPO). Legal and moral justification, however, are not identical, and it...

Inspirées par les principes et les outils de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, la Loi organique relative aux lois de finances et la Révision générale des politiques publiques semblent concourir à améliorer l'efficacité de l'action publique, en renouvelant la pratique de l'évaluation. Les expériences étrangères démontrent toutefois qu'il est souvent difficile de...

The thesis examines to what extend the European integration has driven the Airbus programme. Political and industrial stakeholders have often associated both in their discourses. A combined historical and social science approach determines the actual relationships in a Strategic Trade Policies perspective as defined by Paul Krugman. Despite their references to "Europe" the...

Am 26. Januar 2005 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht das allgemeine Studiengebührenverbot für verfassungswidrig erklärt und damit den Weg für die Einführung von Studiengebühren frei gemacht. Doch was bewirken Studiengebühren? Können Informationsasymmetrien zwischen Universitäten und Hochschulbewerbern verringert werden? Kann die Einführung von Studiengebühren zu einem besseren Match...

This paper formulates an empirical model to estimate the impact of endogenous new regional trade agreement (RTA) membership on trade structure. The likelihood of new RTA membership is influenced by economic fundamentals such as country size, factor endowments, and trade and investment costs. In a sample of country-pairs covering mainly the OECD economies we find a particularly strong...

In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were previously provided by a state monopolist. This paper analyzes 77 tenders that differ with respect to network size, service frequency, contract duration and the proximity to other lines that are already run by competitors of DB Regio, a subsidiary of the successor of the...

Higher education institutions are increasingly emulating research institutions and concentrate their financial rewards on research output (Melguizo/Strober 2007). We investigate whether faculty members strongly react to such financial rewards. We focus on monetary rewards originating from promotions. Based on economic theories we derive three hypotheses. We test them with data from...