Data from a field experiment are used to estimate the gain in productivity that is realized when workers are paid piece rates rather than fixed wages. The experiment was conducted within a tree-planting firm and provides daily observations on individual worker productivity under both copensation...

In order to choose the proper size of an infrastructure and to save as much as possible on investment costs, it is necessary for the responsible party (the Centre in the language of this report) to have access to information that is typically known only by some agents or partners who may use...

En France, les brevets sont attribués au premier à déposer la demande et non pas au premier inventeur. Cependant, ce système dit de first to file est accompagné par la règle de droit de possession antérieure qui accorde au premier inventeur le droit de continuer à utiliser son invention...