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reciprocal exchange to lifetime employment, from relational governance to corruption/collusion. We study how agents …. The aversion to intertemporal substitution, a regular feature of real world agents, facilitates cooperation by decreasing …. Access to goods’ markets and ‘money’ may then hinder cooperation by undoing these effects, allowing agents to save and …
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The paper analyses governments’ trade-off between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for...
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detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …
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We investigate the impact of within-country spatial concentration of economic activity on country-level growth, using cross-section OLS and dynamic panel GMM estimation. Agglomeration is measured alternatively through measures of urbanization and through indices of spatial concentration based on...
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This paper reviews the evidence about the effects of urbanisation and cities on productivity and economic growth in …
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Public ownership is viewed as a restriction on the portfolio of equities held by investors. Three conditions are required to justify such restrictions. First, monitoring and coordination create concentration in supply or demand. Second, complete contracts must be infeasible or undesirable....
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When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines the minimum power that each country requires in the common decision-making. This paper studies the problem in the context of a common currency, which requires coordination of...
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Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to …
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lead to a unique equilibrium path where external enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
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in these models. We propose a way to take these pay-offs into account, and find that cooperation as equilibrium of the … parameter space, all cooperation equilibria are strictly risk dominated in the sense of Harsanyi and Selten (1988). We derive an … others defect, and argue it is a better measure for the ‘likelihood’ of cooperation than the critical level at which …
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