Regional initial water rights is a crucial part of initial water rights and clarification of it is an essential method to improve the efficiency of water use. It also promotes sustainable use of valuable water resources. Consequently, under new circumstances of China’s most stringent water resources management, with water quantity and quality control, we propose a new perspective for a coupled ...

Governance of the information security function is critical to effective security. In this paper, the authors present a conceptual model for security governance from the perspective of decision rights allocation. Based on Da Veiga and Eloff’s (2007) framework for security governance and two high-level information security documents published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

The Allocation of Landing Rights by Unanimity Among Competitors Author(s): David M. Grether, R. Mark Isaac and Charles R. Plott Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the NinetyThird Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1981), pp. 166-171 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1815712 . Ac...

One of the main bottlenecks Brazilian development faces is its insufficient and biased supply of public services. In a country with low and concentrated income, the supply of public goods configures the only way to create human as well as social capital. This article argues that the allocation of rights on the supply of public services can largely explain many of the undesired results that are ...

We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationshipspecific investments and that subjects attain the most efficient ownership allocation despite starting from different initial conditions. However, in contrast to the property rights approach, the most eff...

The efficient allocation of control rights in inter-firm collaborations is a widely emphasized issue. In this paper, I empirically identify control rights and the allocation of these rights using a unique survey data set on collaborations between biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms. Fifteen control rights are identified to make up the structure of deals with five rights being the items of co...

water markets are instrumental in efficient allocation and pricing of scarce water by enhancing allocative and price efficiency of water use. the prerequisites for water market formation are tradable water rights independent from ownership of the land, extensive water canals, water use associations, and adequate market regulations. mojen water market has been facilitating exchange of alternativ...

Modern-day health systems have suffered from a mismatch between the seemingly limitless demand for health services and the finite physical and financial resources available to supply such services almost since their inception. 1 However, the affordability of such systems has undoubtedly risen up the policy agenda recently to become a significant contemporary problem worldwide, as the impact of ...