Whole Life Non-Profit Assurances

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Bovine chorioptic mange, caused by Chorioptes texan us (Hirst, 1 924) is reported. Eighty three (80,5 %) out of 103 Israeli Friesian herds, surveyed in the years 1983-1987, were found infested. Most of the animais infested were cows while prevalence in female calves and heifers was much lower (81,9 %, 12% and 6% of the infested herds respectively). In most cases the lesions were limited to the ...

Institutions and non profit organizations

This essay incorporates the concept of economic institutions as a key factor in the determination of the size and scope of the nonprofit sector. The cross-country study is based on a sample of 67 countries circa year 2000.

Technical Enforcement of Informational Assurances

Dealing with informational assurances we have to consider the full complexity of the information society. In a norrower sense informational assurances comprise informational rights, the related legal and social rules as well as the enforcing technical mechanisms. The right of privacy, understood as informational self-determination, is taken as an important example. Starting from a discussion of...

Quality competition with profit constraints: Do non-profit firms provide higher quality than for-profit firms?

In many markets, such as education, health care and public utilities, firms are often profit-constrained either due to regulation or because they have non-profit status. At the same time such firms might have altruistic concerns towards consumers. In this paper we study semi-altruistic firms’ incentives to invest in quality and cost-reducing effort when facing constraints on the distribution of...

Assurances of Objectivity