– Motivations of open source software contributors – Governance, organization, and process of innovation in OSS projects – Competitive dynamic enforced by OSS 3 Why OSS is important to be studied? • Research on OSS is helping to define an entirely new model of innovation of relevance to many fields beyond OSS. • This model helps us understand how private needs and wants can create public good i...

This study examines the incentives for municipalities and private schools to participate in a national voucher program. Cost-minimizing municipalities are predicted to participate when they have relatively few students who are under-served by existing public schools and when there is an elastic supply of private school spaces. Private schools are assumed to be monopolistically competitive with ...

The participation of private capital in public infrastructure investment projects has been sought by many governments who perceive this as a way to overcome budgetary constraints and foster economic growth. For some types of projects, this investment may require government participation in the form of project guarantees in order to reduce the risk to the private investor, and as a consequence, ...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

This paper studies the nonparametric identification of the first-price auction model with risk averse bidders within the private value paradigm. We show that the benchmark model is nonindentified in general from observed bids. We derive the restrictions imposed by the model on observables and show that these restrictions are quite weak. We then establish the nonparametric identification of the ...

The participation of private capital in public infrastructure investment projects has been sought by many governments who perceive this as a way to overcome budgetary constraints and foster economic growth. For some types of projects, this investment may require government participation in the form of project guarantees in order to reduce the risk of the private investor. As a consequence, the ...

BACKGROUND Many people ageing with intellectual disabilities (ID) age in place in group homes. Participation is a central concept in support and service to people with ID, but age is often a determining factor for participation among this group. Choice and control are dimensions of participation. AIM The aim of this article is to explore how choice and control in the everyday life of people a...

The health sector, a foremost service sector in Nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the Nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.Notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

We analyze the competition between auction houses to organize an English auction in the independent private value model with participation costs when the seller is unable to commit not to participate in the same way as any potential buyer through a shill bidding activity. The seller may prefer to contract with auction houses with higher fees since they make the shill bidding activity more costl...