1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798864703321

Autore

Heussaff Anna

Titolo

Scáil an Phríosúin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Galway : , : Cló lar-Chonnacht, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78444-142-2

1-78444-141-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Irlandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Page Cóipcheart -- Page Tiomnú -- Clár -- Caibidil 1 -- Caibidil 2 -- Caibidil 3 -- Caibidil 4 -- Caibidil 5 -- Caibidil 6 -- Caibidil 7 -- Caibidil 8 -- Caibidil 9 -- Caibidil 10 -- Caibidil 11 -- Caibidil 12 -- Caibidil 13 -- Caibidil 14 -- Caibidil 15 -- Caibidil 16 -- Caibidil 17 -- Caibidil 18 -- Caibidil 19 -- Caibidil 20 -- Caibidil 21 -- Caibidil 22 -- Caibidil 23 -- Caibidil 24 -- Caibidil 25 -- Caibidil 26 -- Caibidil 27 -- Caibidil 28 -- Caibidil 29 -- Caibidil 30 -- Buíochas.

Sommario/riassunto

This gripping story is set in Kilmainham Prison in Dublin and deals with the circumstances of two murders. Seo an tríú húrscéal coiriúlachta do dhaoine fásta leis an údar seo. Scéal mistéire tarraingteach a lúbann anonn is anall go dtí an leathanach deireanach.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788227203321

Autore

Valderrama Laura

Titolo

Political Risk Aversion / / Laura Valderrama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-9108-7

1-4527-0970-X

1-282-84403-2

1-4518-7341-7

9786612844034

Descrizione fisica

26 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Uncertainty

Rational expectations (Economic theory)

Labor

Industries: Information Technololgy

Production and Operations Management

Inventions

Technological Change: Choices and Consequences

Diffusion Processes

Innovation

Research and Development

Technological Change

Intellectual Property Rights: General

Macroeconomics: Production

Geographic Labor Mobility

Immigrant Workers

Information technology industries

Technology

general issues

Macroeconomics

Inventions & inventors

Labour

income economics

Emerging technologies

Productivity

Technological innovation

Labor mobility

Industrial productivity



Technological innovations

China, People's Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. We show how individual uncertainty creates a bias for the status quo even under irreversible voting decisions, in contrast with Fernandez and Rodrik (1991). Blocking innovation is rooted in the aversion to the potential loss of political clout in future voting decisions. Thus, risk neutral individuals exhibit what we call political risk aversion. Yet individual uncertainty is not all bad news as it may open the door to institutional reform. We endogenize institutional reform and show a non-monotonic relationship between institutional efficiency and the size of innovation.