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Vincenzo Pavone

Bio: Vincenzo Pavone is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Critical security studies & Security through obscurity. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 34 publications receiving 468 citations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a firm-level data set on Eastern European and Central Asian firms, the BEEPS 2005 Survey provided by the EBRD and World Bank, to test this prediction.
Abstract: A key prediction of transaction cost economics (TCE) is that the presence of relationship-specific assets increases the likelihood of vertical integration whenever contracts are incomplete. I explore a firm-level data set on Eastern European and Central Asian firms, the BEEPS 2005 Survey provided by the EBRD and World Bank, to test this prediction. I measure lock-in by supplier substitution, and find the TCE prediction confirmed in the data. Testing whether the determinants of vertical integration also drive investment decisions, I find that lock-in raises the probability to engage in R&D, but has no robust effect on investment in physical assets. JEL classification: L14, L23, L25.

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TL;DR: The United States and Spain are both global leaders in fertility treatment with donor oocytes, yet both countries take different approaches to how egg donation is regulated as mentioned in this paper . But the US model reveals a hierarchically organized form of gendered eugenics, whereas in Spain the eugenic aspects of donor selection are more subtle.
Abstract: Regulations governing assisted reproduction control the degree to which gamete donation is legal and how people providing genetic material are selected and compensated. The United States and Spain are both global leaders in fertility treatment with donor oocytes. Yet both countries take different approaches to how egg donation is regulated. The US model reveals a hierarchically organized form of gendered eugenics. In Spain, the eugenic aspects of donor selection are more subtle. Drawing upon fieldwork in the United States and Spain, this article examines (1) how compensated egg donation operates under two regulatory settings, (2) the implications for egg donors as providers of bioproducts, and (3) how advances in oocyte vitrification enhances the commodity quality of human eggs. By comparing these two reproductive bioeconomies we gain insight into how different cultural, medical, and ethical frameworks intersect with egg donor embodied experiences.
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TL;DR: Drawing from the PRISE project data in Spain, this study tries to cast some light on how citizens actually assess security technologies and suggests that people do not assess STs in abstract terms but in relation to their specific institutional and social contexts.
Abstract: Although finding an effective response to security threats remains a contested issue, after 9/11 European governments have introduced new technologies as part of their security strategies. As these technologies are considered security enhancing but also privacy infringing, citizens are expected to trade part of their privacy in exchange for higher security. Whilst this forces citizens to consider security and privacy as exchangeable commodities, the trade-off obscures possible authoritarian implications of security technologies (STs). Drawing from the PRISE project data in Spain, this study tries to cast some light on how citizens actually assess security technologies. Qualitative data from focus groups are used to grasp citizens’ ways of reasoning, whilst the existence of a trade-off between privacy and security is tested through analysis of correlations based on survey data. The outcomes suggest that people do not assess STs in abstract terms but in relation to their specific institutional and social contexts. Second, from this embedded view-point, citizens either express concern about government’s real surveillance intentions and consider STs as essentially privacy infringing, or trust political institutions and endorse the adoption of STs to enhance their security. Neither group, however, faces a trade-off because concerned citizens see their privacy being infringed without having their security enhanced, whilst trusting citizens see their security being increased without their privacy being affected.

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01 Feb 2009
TL;DR: This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale, and what might be coming next.
Abstract: Secret History: Return of the Black Death Channel 4, 7-8pm In 1348 the Black Death swept through London, killing people within days of the appearance of their first symptoms. Exactly how many died, and why, has long been a mystery. This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale. And they ask, what might be coming next?

5,234 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.
Abstract: This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.

913 citations