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relational contracts, private information, multiple suppliers, and issues of organization design. …
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We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007-2008 boom in agricultural commodity prices and study determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. Using data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate...
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This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the institutions of property rights matter for efficiency, investment and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made...
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This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the institutions of property rights, in particular related to land, are of crucial importance for investment and growth. In Ethiopia, with all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far...
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This paper evaluates alternative strategic models of competition and market structure in online retailing, and makes …. Advertising and revenue data for the online book market reveal that consumers respond to advertising rather than low prices. As … the market increases, advertising costs escalate and there is no new entry. Advertising to sales ratios and market …
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rents from the market. The predicted disclosure is consistent with real life observations of certification disclosure as …
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This paper considers linkages between national labour markets in a global economy, extending the existing analyses to the empirically important case where factor price equalization does not hold. Removing the assumption of factor price equalization allows the divergent wage experience as well as...
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