Platform work in a Coordinated Market Economy

a study on rate making and required reserves determination in reinsurance market: a simulation

reinsurance is widely recognized as an important instrument in the capital management of an insurance company as well as its risk management tool. this thesis is intended to determine premium rates for different types of reinsurance policies. also, given the fact that the reinsurance coverage of every company depends upon its reserves, so different types of reserves and the method of their calc...

Political Capital in a Market Economy

The paper applies a transaction-focused institutional analysis to compare the value of political capital in different institutional domains of China’s market economy. Our results show that the value of political capital is associated with institutional domains of the economy in which agents can use political connections to secure advantages. Political capital is most fungible in institutional d...

Political Connections in a Market Economy

Modeling Coordinated Work Environments

This paper describes a coordination model for collaborative work. The model utilizes an assemblage of several organization units with specific goals and structure, populated by actors, work practices and artefacts. Coordination work is defined by interdependencies existing in work practices which can be prerequisite, simultaneous or by means of sharing of resources. Coordination between communi...

century rural market economy

Using a dataset of 1,700 ages at first marriage for Roman Catholics born in the Groningen Ommelanden (The Netherlands) during the period 1721-1800 explanatory variables for the specific age at marriage have been searched for. The 18 th and early 19 th century Groningen Ommelanden fitted perfectly into Hajnal’s Western European marriage pattern with very high ages at marriage and a high celibacy...