Establishing Institutions under International Administration

Establishing Nontraditional Venture Capital Institutions: Lessons Learned

Designing International Institutions Hierarchy

Voluntary Institutions' Administration To-day

in the past two years has presented a problem, because its infant life has become less safe. The factors which caused such a reduction of births after 1931 had little influence in the rich area; and it is in this area that the recovery in the number of births since 1934 has been most marked. These features may be partly due to the increasing population of the rich area, though it is not clear t...

Establishing Social Order in 3D Virtual Worlds with Virtual Institutions

An important security aspect of Virtual Worlds (in particular Virtual Worlds oriented towards commercial activities) is controlling participants’ adherence to the social norms (rules of behavior) and making them follow the acceptable interaction patterns. Rules of behavior in the physical world are usually enforced through a post factum punishment, while in computercontrolled environments like ...

International Institutions and the Volatility of International Trade

During the past half-century, states have established a large number of international trade institutions, both multilateral and regional in scope. The existing literature emphasizes that these agreements are chiefly designed to liberalize and increase the flow of overseas commerce. Yet such institutions have another function that has been largely ignored by researchers, namely, reducing volatil...