Nationalization as Credible Threat Against Collusion

Auctions as Collusion Devices

Privatization and Nationalization Cycles

This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies as a prime instance of unstable institutional reform. We discuss available evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, reviewing the existing literature and presenting illustrative case studies. This leads to the main contribution of the paper: a static and dynamic mo...

Countermeasure for collusion attacks against digital watermarking

Customer identification watermarking today is one of the most promising application domains of digital watermarking. It enables to identify individual copies of otherwise indistinguishable digital copies. If done without any precautions, those individual watermarking are vulnerable to a number of specialized attacks based on an attacker collecting more than one individual copy. Fingerprinting a...

The De-nationalization and Re-nationalization of the Life Sciences in China: A Cosmopolitan Practicality?

Stem cell research and synthetic biology offer complementary insights on the nature of scientific governance in China. Stem cells were essentially promoted by top-down semi-governmental initiatives. Yet it was through a process of 'de-nationalization' (in which a diversity of cross-border communications initiated by scientists effaced the dominance of a singular national voice) that China's ste...

Examining the Antecedents to Inter-partner Credible Threat in the International Joint Ventures

Since the 1980s, international joint venture (IJV) becomes a strategic tool enabling firms to escape from operational risk and cost. However, the IJV represents a voluntary cooperative relationship between partners; it is prone to risk of opportunistic behavior by one or both partners in this relationship. Therefore, some characteristics of the IJV are unstable and difficult to manage. Essentia...