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Why Every Economist Should Learn some Auction Theory

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

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Sinking the Internet: Pricing, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure Online

Smith, Howard; Latcovich, Simon - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper evaluates alternative strategic models of competition and market structure in online retailing, and makes comparisons with traditional retailing. Online consumers are less concerned than traditional consumers about spatial characteristics and more concerned about hidden quality...

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Applying Auction Theory to Economics

Klemperer, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This is a preliminary draft of an Invited Symposium paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society to be held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and standard economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can...

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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Ksoll, Christopher; Aker, Jenny C.; Lybbert, Travis J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class. Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...

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Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa

Fafchamps, Marcel; Aker, Jenny C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and reduced consumer prices for certain commodities. There...

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Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

appropriate data set for China. The tests favour the early theories. Implications are drawn. …

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Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion

Eberhardt, Markus; Helmers, Christian - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

China and the United States. We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China …. Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

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Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

generate a poverty trap. The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind. Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of …

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The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based sex selection making it more …, this is the first study to test these hypotheses in rural China and more generally in developing countries. …

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Intra-National Protectionism in China: Evidence from the Public Disclosure of 'Illegal' Drug Advertising

Eberhardt, Markus; Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

This paper provides micro-level evidence that drug advertising regulations and inspections in China are used by local … inherent in a partially reformed economy such as China. …

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