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Candidate Quality
Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - EconWPA - 2004
We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560979
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Patents Hinder Collusion
Kultti, Klaus; Takalo, Tuomas; Toikka, Juuso - EconWPA - 2005
patent system that simultaneously increases knowledge spillovers and eliminates collusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134445
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Cash and the Counter: Capabilities and Preferences in the Demand for Banking Technologies
Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2005
trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By … bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134450
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Cash and the Counter: Capabilities and Preferences in the Demand for Banking Technologies
Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2005
trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By … bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118834