Abstract By using the tools of comparative law & economics, this article aims to shed a light on development precontractual liability. Precontractual liability sensu stricto is about question what extent one can be held liable for cost incurred by other party preliminary to, or during negotiations, when negotiations fail. Comparative legal analysis has observed that requirements establishin...

abstract theories of behavior consumer deal with human behaviors as a being with will and purpose, so they are based on specific assumptions about the human nature and fundamentals of decision making. these assumptions often have ideological roots in different value systems consequently they are different in various these systems. the aim of this paper is to investigate these assumptions in the...

The positions of hedgers and speculators are correlated with returns in a number of futures markets, but there is much debate as to the interpretation of such a relationship – whether it reflects private information, liquidity, or trend-chasing behavior. This paper studies the relationship between positioning of hedgers and speculators and returns in equity futures markets. I propose a novel te...

This paper estimates the causal effect of elite college admission on students’ chances of reaching top management positions, and decomposes the total effect into a component attributable to ties formed between college peers and a component attributable to other institutional inputs. I construct a novel dataset linking archival records of applications to elite colleges in Chile to the census of ...

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The wireless communications market is growing rapidly. A number of technologies are being developed. It is vital to analyse these technologies from an economic perspective to ensure that they have a market. This thesis is an attempt to carry out such a analysis. It discusses various technological and economic aspects of the systems proposed for the future generations of wireless networks and co...

Taipei Medical University,Taipei,Taiwan; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Keio University,Tokyo, Japan; Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; University of Singapore, Singapore, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok,Thailand; The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Pharmaceutical Management India Institute of Health Management ...