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Cette thèse examine les déterminants qui expliquent les types de contrats choisis par les exportateurs et les importateurs pour gérer les risques du commerce international. Elle analyse le cas des exportations chiliennes comme l'un des leaders de l'hémisphère sud sur le commerce des fruits. En appliquant la Théorie de Coûts de Transaction et l'Analyse Institutionnelle, ce travail étudie l'influence de l'incertitude environnementale et comportementale ainsi que la spécificité des actifs sur le degré de complétude, la formalisation et l'exécution des contrats. Cette recherche applique une méthodologie multistrand intégrant des méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives. L'analyse utilise les informations provenant de 39 entretiens directs avec des exportateurs et des importateurs et de 65 enquêtes auprès d' exportateurs conduites à l'aide d'un questionnaire. Elle s'appuie également sur une base de données exhaustive issue des douanes chiliennes et documentant les 170370 transactions avec leurs contrats respectifs réalisées par le Chili dans ses exportations vers l'ensemble du monde sur la période 2009-2010. Elle s'appuie enfin sur 44 cas d'arbitrage international dans le commerce de fruits et légumes. Les résultats montrent que les niveaux d'incertitude environnementale liés aux « risques - pays importateurs » conduisent à des contrats plus complets tandis que des niveaux d'incertitude liés à la périssabilité des fruits conduisent à des contrats moins complets. De son côté, la pénurie d'offre sur le marché met l'entreprise exportatrice dans une position favorable pour négocier des contrats plus complets. Ces transactions internationales sont supportées par des moyens oraux et écrits; dans le négoce international des fruits, les contrats signés sont plus importants que pressenti, et leur rôle est davantage destiné à satisfaire les exigences institutionnelles qu'à compenser les risques. Pour faire respecter les contrats, les entreprises adoptent des mécanismes formels comme les inspections, les assurances et l'arbitrage, ainsi que des mécanismes informels tels que la confiance et la réputation. Cette étude a ses limites car elle porte principalement sur le point de vue de l'exportateur, la base de données des douanes ne fournissant pas l'identité de l'importateur et l'analyse transversale ne permettant pas d'observer l'évolution des pratiques contractuelles dans la durée. Jusqu'à présent, peu de recherches empiriques ont été faites sur les contrats intégrés dans différents contextes institutionnels; cette thèse contribue donc à la connaissance des choix contractuels dans 117 pays importateurs et plus généralement à la compréhension du commerce international des produits périssables. Elle est sur le plan académique, une contribution à la littérature économique et gestionnaire des contrats (complétude, formalisation, exécution) et des changements de forme de gouvernance dans les filières internationales. / This doctoral dissertation examines the determinants explaining the type of contracts chosen by exporters and importers to manage the hazards of international trade. It analyzes the case of Chilean off-season exports as one of the southern-hemisphere leaders in the fruit trade. Applying Transaction Cost Economics and Institutional Analysis as a framework, this work will analyze the influence of environmental and behavioral uncertainty and time-specificity on the degree of completeness, formalization and enforcement of contracts. A multi-strand research design integrating qualitative-quantitative methods is applied to analyze information gathered through: 39 face-to-face interviews with exporters and importers; questionnaire surveys from 65 exporters; an exhaustive Chilean customs database containing 170,370 shipments and contracts from Chile to worldwide buyers; and 44 international arbitration cases for the fruit and vegetable trade. The results show that high levels of uncertainty in the alternative importing countries increase the use of more complete contracts. When levels of fruit perishability are high, this often leads to less complete contracts. Shortage of market supply allows the exporting company a favorable position to negotiate a more complete contract. International transactions are supported by oral and written means; the use of signed contracts is more important than perceived in the fruit industry, but its role is more oriented to respond to institutional requirements rather than as a mechanism to offset hazards, such as exporting to risky countries or dealing with distrustful importers. To enforce contracts firms adopt formal and informal mechanisms. These include inspections, insurance, arbitration, in addition to trust and reputation. Limitations of this study include: the customs database does not include the identity of the importer, the cross-sectional analysis performed does not allow observing the evolution of contracting practices, the study is placed predominately from the exporter's perspective. There is also little empirical research on contracts analyzing transactions embedded in different institutional settings. This thesis contributes to the knowledge of contractual choices in 117 importing countries. It contributes to the understanding of international trade of perishable products. It also contributes to the economics and management literature on international contract completeness, formalization, enforceability, and to literature focusing on the changes of governance in the international supply chains.

Das Kerninteresse der Dissertation gilt den Einsatzmöglichkeiten ökonomischer Experimente in der Institutionenanalyse. Sie setzt sich aus einem konzeptionellen und vier empirischen Aufsätzen zusammen. Im ersten Aufsatz werden drei theoretische Blickwinkel auf institutionellen Wandel unterschieden. Diese werden dann mit empirischen Arbeiten in der experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung in Beziehung gesetzt. Die empirischen Aufsätze greifen diese Überlegungen auf. Im zweiten Aufsatz findet für die Analyse der Verkehrsmittelwahl von Pendlern unter verschiedenen Politikszenarien ein „Framed Field Experiment“ Anwendung. Es wird gezeigt, wie Verlustaversion und Statusängste die Entscheidungen der Pendler erklären können. Im dritten Aufsatz kommt ein „Public Goods Game“ zum Einsatz, um den Einfluss von ökonomischer Ungleichheit und Vorbildverhalten auf Beiträge zu einer gemeinsam genutzten sanitären Einrichtung zu untersuchen. In einer strukturell ähnlichen Entscheidungssituation verhalten sich Teilnehmerinnen häufig so wie es ihnen aus anderen Zusammenhängen bekannt ist. Der vierte Aufsatz untersucht den Einfluss des sogenannten Status-Quo-Effekts auf umweltfreundliches Verhalten. In einem Feldexperiment wird gezeigt, dass sich ein Zwang zur Entscheidung positiv auf umweltfreundliches Verhalten auswirken kann. Der fünfte Aufsatz geht der Frage nach, ob sich Experimente als didaktisches Werkzeug zur Schaffung größeren Umweltbewusstseins einsetzen lassen. Im Vergleich zu einer Kontrollgruppe zeigen selbst Teilnehmende mit negativen Erfahrungen aus dem Experiment einen positiven Effekt auf umweltfreundliches Verhalten. In einem Fazit findet eine Synthese der Aufsätze statt. Ein Ergebnis ist die Entwicklung eines analytischen Rahmens für die Durchführung ökonomischer Experimente zur Untersuchung institutionellen Wandels. Konstitutionelle Regeln, also Regeln zur Änderung von Regeln, werden als erfolgversprechender Ansatzpunkt für die zukünftige Forschung identifiziert. / The dissertation focuses on the use of economic experiments for institutional analysis. It consists of one conceptual and four empirical essays. In the first essay, three theoretical perspectives on institutional change are distinguished. These are linked to empirical work in Experimental Economics. The empirical essays expand on these considerations. In the second essay, commuters’ transportation mode choice is analyzed. It is shown that loss aversion and status concerns drive behavior. In the third essay, a public goods game is employed to investigate the effect of endowment heterogeneity and leading by example on voluntary contributions to a jointly used sanitation facility. It is demonstrated that in a structurally similar decision context, choices are driven by experiences from other contexts. The fourth essay examines the impact of the so-called status quo bias on pro-environmental behavior. In a field experiment, it is shown that forcing a decision has a positive effect on pro-environmental behavior. The fifth essay investigates whether experiments can be used as a tool for environmental awareness building. Even participants with negative experiences from taking part in the dilemma experiment show a greater likeliness of behaving environmentally friendly in comparison to a control group. In a concluding part, the essays are synthesized. One outcome is an analytical framework for developing economic experiments on institutional change. Constitutional rules (i.e., rules on how to change the rules) are identified as a promising starting point for future research.

Cette thèse traite de l'évolution du cadre organisationnel et institutionnel de l'industrie pétrolière russe durant la période 1992-2012. Son objectif est de caractériser et d'interpréter l'accroissement du rôle des compagnies pétrolières à capitaux majoritairement publics, Rosneft et Gazpromneft, dans les opérations de l'amont pétrolier qui est observé depuis le milieu des années 2000. Dans ce cadre théorique de la Nouvelle économie institutionnelle, notre thèse soutient que le rôle accru des compagnies pétrolières publiques russes marque le passage d'une structure de gouvernance pétrolière libérale à une structure de gouvernance pétrolière hybride. Cela doit être interprété comme la réponse faisable, de la part des autorités fédérales, à l'incohérence existant entre la structure de gouvernance pétrolière libérale définie au début du processus de transition et l'environnement institutionnel prévalant en Russie. / This PhD dissertation deals with the evolution of the institutional and organizational framework of the Russian oil indThis PhD dissertation deals with the evolution of the institutional and organizational framework of the Russian oil industry during the period 1992-2012. Its main objective is to characterize and reinterpret the increasing involvement of the national oil companies (NOCs), Rosneft and Gazpromneft, in the upstream activities observed since the middle of the 2000's. Relying on the New Institutional Economics framewrokd, we argue that the increasing involvement of the Russian NOCs can be characterized as a change from a liberal oil governance structure to a hybrid oil governance structure. We show that this organizational evolution must be interpreted as the feasible reform that can be implemented by the federal authorities for dealing with the incoherence between the liberal governance structure defined at the beginning of the transition process and the Russian institutional environment.

Das vorliegende Buch hat die Analyse des funktionsgestörten Wassersektors auf den beiden Zykladen Inseln Tinos und Syros in Griechenland zum Ziel. Die Bevölkerung dieser Inseln leidet unter einer Kombination aus mangelnder Wasserqualität, -quantität und hohen Wasserpreisen. Die Arbeit setzt sich mit Gründen der Ineffektivität zentral geplanter Maßnahmen (technische Lösungen und administrative Reformen) bei der Lösung solcher Probleme auseinander. Die übergeordnete Forschungsfrage hierbei lautet: Warum ist der Wassersektor angesichts einer Vielzahl von Lösungsversuchen immer noch dysfunktional? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, liegt der Fokus auf der institutionellen statt auf der physikalischen Dimension des Problems. Hierbei verfolgte ich eine abduktive Strategie innerhalb des Forschungsprozesses. Auf institutionentheoretischen Annahmen basierend, komme ich zu zwei Schlussfolgerungen, die einen Teufelskreis vermuten lassen: i) Institutionen und Politik haben zu einer chronischen Dysfunktionalität, die sich in einer unsteten und unsicheren Wasserversorgung äußert, geführt. ii) Diese Dysfunktionalität verhindert eine Veränderung der existierenden Institutionen. Basierend auf meiner Analyse schlussfolgere ich, dass die Top-down-Strukturen und die zentral gesteuerten Regularien die Hauptursache sind, dass es zu keiner vernünftigen Veränderung oder gar einer Lösung der Probleme im Wassersektor kommt. Mehr noch, sie sind die eigentlichen Gründe für die Misere und deren Persistenz. Eine Dezentralisierung der Steuerung und eine Unabhängigkeit der lokalen politischen Ebene (institutionell und finanziell) stellen einen vielversprechenden Ansatz zur Verbesserung der Situation dar. Beamte vor Ort kennen die örtlichen Gegebenheiten und fühlen sich verantwortlich für die lokale Bevölkerung. / This study aims at diagnosing the dysfunctional water sector of Tinos and Syros, islands in the Cyclades island complex of Greece. At present, these islands suffer from insufficient water quantity, combined with poor quality and high cost. The research problem addressed in this thesis is the apparent inability of centrally planned technical and administrative-reform solutions that have been promoted to rectify the problems. This work explores the reasons for the inability to rectify the water sector and aims to answer the overarching research question: Why is the water sector in the Cyclades still dysfunctional, despite the attempted solutions? To explore these emergent questions related to policy making, I revisit existing legal rules and relations relevant to the context, viewed in parallel with aspects of human behaviour and transactions under the analytical lens classical institutional economics offers. The reasons for the water-supply dysfunction in the study islands are, thus, sought after in terms of transactions amongst actors, working rules regulating those transactions, and officials’ remedial power at all levels. Based on my analysis, I conclude that top-down structures and centrally planned policies have been hindering the meaningful change and rectification of the water sector and have, in fact, created and prolonged the dysfunction. Decentralising governance, granting local-level autonomy (institutional and financial) is a plausible way of rectifying the water sector, as local officials are knowledgeable about local conditions and feel liable to their fellow citizens, who would willingly cooperate with this level of government.

Este estudo analisou o impacto da contratualização na gestão de desempenho (sistemas de mensuração de desempenho e atuação dos gestores) em um hospital público de ensino. O estudo de caso realizado no Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade de São Paulo, localizado em Ribeirão Preto, observou a mudança entre 1995-2012 dos sistemas de mensuração de desempenho (SMD) vigentes no hospital, antes focados no cumprimento do uso dos recursos orçamentários (financial based-type) para um mais voltado para entrega de serviços pactuados (BSC-type). A mudança ocorreu em função da alteração das condições da obtenção dos recursos junto ao governo que em 2005, por meio do Programa de Contratualização Hospitalar, passou a vincular parte da verba destinada ao hospital a seu desempenho (cumprimento de metas de indicadores pactuados). Em resposta, a gestão de desempenho do hospital vem se alterando em duas ordens de atuação dos gestores. Uma ação de primeira ordem dos gestores do hospital foi fazer o desdobramento da contratualização nos SMDs do hospital, propondo novos SMDs e legitimando o uso nas diversas áreas do hospital (topdown). A ação de segunda ordem foi negociar a seleção dos indicadores, metas e respectiva pontuação na formula de repasse de recursos (bottom-up) com os gestores locais do Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS, com objetivo de acomodar as incertezas do repasse de recursos. A interação entre os gestores locais do SUS e os gestores do hospital levou à um entendimento compartilhado sobre a avaliação de desempenho, à medida que devem seguir as regras formais gerais do programa de contratualização. O equilibro convergiu para uma maior preferência por indicadores quantitativos (com menor peso na fórmula de bônus) nos serviços de atenção à saúde, associada ao aumento do peso dos indicadores qualitativos na fórmula de bônus (com uso de metas menos rígidas). Esta condição assegura o alcance das metas pelo hospital e demonstra a atuação proativa dos gestores na pactuação com a fonte de recursos. / This study analyzed the impact of contractualisation on performance management (of performance measurement systems and way of managers take action) in a public teaching hospital. The case study conducted at the Hospital das Clinicas, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto between 1995-2012 observed the change of Performance Measurement Systems - PMSs existing at the hospital, before focused on fulfillment of use of budgetary resources (financial-based type) for a more focused delivery in the agreed services (BSCtype). The change was due to altering the conditions of obtaining funds from the government in 2005, through the Hospital Contractualisation Program, now linking the amount of funds destinated to the hospital in their performance (achievement of goals and indicators agreed). In response, the management of hospital performance has been undergoing changes by two orders of acting of managers. A first-order action of managers of the hospital was doing the unfolding of the contractualisation PMSs in the hospital, proposing new PMSs and legitimating the use in various areas of the hospital (top-down). The action of the second order was to negotiate the selection of indicators, targets and their scores on the formula of allocation of resources (bottom-up) with the local managers of the Unified Health System - SUS, in order to accommodate the uncertainty of funds transfer. The interaction between the SUS\' local managers and the hospitals\' managers has generated a shared understanding about the performance evaluation, as they have to follow the general formal rules imposed by the Contractualisation Program. The equilibrium has converged to a higher preference for quantitative indicators (with a lower weight on the bonus formula) for healthy services, associated with the increasing of qualitative indicators\' weight on the bonus formula (plus more achievable targets usage). These conditions ensure the achievement of goals by the hospital and demonstrate the proactive role from hospitals\' managers during the annual contract review process with the funding source.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:24:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leonardo Albuquerque Marques.pdf: 1455799 bytes, checksum: a39f06ed207a5bf921d6f775a3f557dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-10 / This study investigates the limits of the possibilities of an efficient design for legal institutions, focusing its analysis on the structure of pilotage services market. It is carried out a critique over the neoclassical concept of efficiency, which, from a historical perspective, is not a concept a priori. From approach adopted in this study, the traditional concept of static efficiency (in its allocative and productive dimensions) is a cultural construction, subject to biases, judgments and perspectivisms, and is therefore susceptible to a great variety of criticisms, where the state has a naturally limited role in solving social conflicts that arise through time. This being said, it is argued that the study of efficiency must focus on the structure of institutions (legal or not), to allow a reduction of transaction costs and the possibility of the various stakeholders in interaction situations through transactions (on the market or outside it) to have the opportunity to develop standards of conduct for themselves through trial, error and learning. And this trial, error and learning, in order to spread its improving prospects to the maximum, must lead to the maximization of communication exchanges possibilities and to allow variation and selection of new ideas. That is, it is argued that law should aspire to maximize the possibilities of institutional adaptation through trial, error and learning by expanding communication exchanges. With these assumptions, we try to study the structure of pilotage services market, pointing out the errors of a cycle of public hearings conducted by CNAP (object chosen for case study). In this regard, it is understood that there is an ideological lock-in problem that prevents the upcoming of a sustainable cycle of creative destruction under the pilotage services, which inhibits the improvement of available technologies and institutions. From the development done in the theoretical exposition of this thesis, some proposals for the structure of pilotage services that facilitate this adaptive efficiency are presented, not only for the stakeholders directly related to the market (service providers and buyers) as well as for others who may be affected by negative externalities provided by the risk of the activity / O presente trabalho procura investigar quais são os limites da possibilidade de um desenho eficiente para instituições jurídicas, focando a sua análise na estruturação dos mercados de serviços de praticagem. Realiza-se uma crítica ao conceito neoclássico de eficiência, o qual, a partir de uma perspectiva histórica, não é um dado a priori. Na perspectiva aqui adotada, o conceito de eficiência estática tradicional, nas dimensões alocativa e produtiva, é uma construção cultural, sujeitas a vieses, arbítrios e perspectivismos, sendo, portanto, suscetível a uma imensidão de críticas, e onde o Estado tem um papel naturalmente limitado na resolução dos conflitos sociais que surgem no devir. Isso colocado, defende-se que o estudo da eficiência deve se voltar para a estruturação das instituições (jurídicas ou não), de modo a permitir a diminuição dos custos de transação e a possibilidade de que os diversos stakeholders em situação de interação por meio de transações (no mercado ou fora dele) tenham a perspectiva de desenvolver padrões de condutas próprios por meio de tentativa, erro e aprendizado. E a maximização das chances dessa tentativa, erro e aprendizado deve pressupor a maximização das possibilidades de trocas de comunicações para permitir a variação e seleção de novas ideias. Isto é, defende-se que o Direito deve aspirar a maximizar as possibilidades de adaptação das instituições por meio tentativa, erro e aprendizagem por meio da ampliação das trocas de comunicações. Com essas premissas, procura-se estudar a estrutura de mercado dos serviços de praticagem, apontando os erros de um ciclo de consultas públicas conduzida pela CNAP (objeto escolhido para estudo de caso). Nesse particular, entende-se que há um problema de lock-in ideológico que impede o surgimento de um ciclo sustentável de destruição criativa no âmbito dos serviços de praticagem, o que inibe o aprimoramento das tecnologias e das instituições disponíveis. A partir do desenvolvimento realizado na exposição teórica da presente tese, são apresentadas algumas propostas para a estruturação dos serviços da praticagem que facilitem essa eficiência adaptativa, não só para os stakeholders diretamente relacionados ao mercado (prestadores e tomadores de serviços) como também para os demais que possam ser afetados pelas externalidades negativas propiciadas pelo risco da atividade

This thesis is an analysis of technology diffusion and the long-run institutional impact of the nature of that diffusion. It examines how a growing commercial trading relationship with Lancashire-based millwrights enabled textile industrialisation in late 19th century Bombay, and reflects upon the evolving character of Indian manufacturing and organisational behaviour within and beyond the colonial context, and into 21st century industrial strategy. Drawing upon primary archival material from sources in Britain and India (including historical company records, trade association records, transactional correspondence between Lancashire and Bombay, and administrative records of the India Office in Whitehall), and upon 27 elite interviews with prominent Mumbai-based businessmen and their families, a technological and cultural dependence by manufacturing elites upon the commercial agent is identified. The emplacement of colonial business norms and particularly the use of informal networks, in turn bolstered by a culture for clubbability, appears to influence the distinctly tight-knit, ‘gentlemanly’ character of Indian family business houses established during the late 19th and early 20th century. Applying a mixed-methods approach to technology theory and analysis, the data chapters are split into two parts, respectively concerning info rmation flows and knowledge flows from the UK to Western India. The former explores patterns in technological transactions and decisions governing the diffusion of textile technology that enabled industrial establishment. The latter focuses on the replication of managerial, cultural and business practices following and reflecting upon Bombay’s textile industrialisation; this establishes the observed presence of British ideals of gentlemanly business conduct within informal networks, familial and community ties. Overall, this research highlights how business history may be used as a lens to understand the process of technology diffusion and analyse the reinforcement of culturally-hybrid social norms in peripheral regions via technical or commercial links. In terms of developmental trajectory, moreover, this case study considers how given limited capacity for innovation or capital goods production, strategic supply-side decisions may garner early cumulative value by replicating industrial production, albeit with long-term institutional consequences. This research has implications for future understanding of the development of UK-Commonwealth trading relationships, and how these might foster structural transformation in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. While this thesis focuses on the diffusion of physical capital and technology-driven industry, such a narrative exploration of networks and business norms surrounding structural transformation might be pursued based on alternative factors of production including capital investment and flow, or else feasibly extend into other post-colonial regions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:00:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao parte 1.pdf: 1955854 bytes, checksum: 54675e10f9459d57523da8b021b34b66 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-04 / Considering the growing importance of scientific knowledge for technological progress of companies, there is an important role played by universities. In this paper, the importance of the relationship between innovations and institutions in the interaction between universities and firms are analyzed through the framework of Evolutionary Economics and New Institutional Economics. The main models of university-industry interaction and its impact on scientific and technological policies in Brazil are presented, further an analysis of the Law of Innovation. The interaction between universities and companies in Brazil are analyzed using information from the directory of groups of CNPq and from the IBGE`s Industrial Research of Technological Innovation (Pintec). For empirical evidence of the study, are analyzed the Núcleo de Excelência em Estruturas Metálicas e Mistas (NEXEM), the result of partnership between the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) and Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarão (CST). / Tendo em vista a crescente importância do conhecimento científico para o progresso tecnológico das firmas, observa-se o importante papel desempenhado pelas universidades. Neste trabalho, procura-se analisar a importância da relação entre inovações e instituições na interação entre universidades e empresas por meio dos arcabouços da Economia Evolucionista e da Nova Economia Institucional. São apresentados os principais modelos de interação universidade-empresa e suas repercussões nas políticas científicas e tecnológicas do Brasil, além de uma análise da Lei de Inovação. A interação entre universidades e empresas no Brasil é analisada por meio das informações do Diretório de Grupos do CNPq e da Pesquisa Industrial de Inovação Tecnológica (Pintec), do IBGE. Para comprovação empírica do estudo, analisa-se o Núcleo de Excelência em Estruturas Metálicas e Mistas (NEXEM), resultado da parceria entre a Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES) e a então Companhia Siderúrgica de Tubarão (CST), hoje Arcelor Mittal Tubarão.

This thesis aims to analyze the origins of the 2007-2009 financial and economic crisis in the US and describe the most significant channels that caused its transmission to the EU countries. Second part of this paper compares both the progress and consequences the financial and economic crisis had for the United Kingdom and Germany with respect to institutional differences of their economic models. Firstly, the second part of this paper focuses on the main institutional patterns including market for corporate control, banking sector, market as a means of financial allocation, labour market flexibility and the economic role of the state. Secondly, using an elaborate micro and macroeconomic data analysis I compare both the progress and the impacts the crisis had on the UK and German economy. Hereby I show that some of the differences in the progress and economic consequences the crisis had for the UK and Germany (price bubble on the real estate market, firms' financial distress, lower domestic and foreign demand and increased unemployment rate) reflected the institutional particularities of their economic models.