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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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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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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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Patent Laws and Innovation in China

Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China

Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making. Chinaâ€™s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid â€˜social instabilityâ€™. It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...

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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …

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Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country

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

determinants of subjective well-being. Less attention has been paid to its normative implications. Taking China as a case study …

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Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China

Bretschger, Lucas; Zhang, Lin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general …

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