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Quah, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper gives a unified and simple treatment of three related questions in the demand theory of the weak axiom: (i) Is there an elementary, i.e., non-fixed point theoretic, proof of equilibrium existence when the excess demand function of an economy satisfies the weak axiom? (ii) What...

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Algorithmic Characterization of Rationalizability in Extensive Form Games

Board, Oliver - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

extending the concept of rationalizability to extensive form games. …

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Intellectual Property at the Firm-Level in the UK: The Oxford Firm-Level Intellectual Property Database

Helmers, Christian; Rogers, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

This paper provides an overview of a new database that contains intellectual property data - in the form of patents and trademarks - for the population of firms registered in the UK. The paper discusses the principal challenges involved in the construction of this integrated database and...

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Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks

Barr, Abigail; Attanasio, Orazio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

Using data from a field experiment conducted in seventy Colombian municipalities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when risk pooling arrangements are not formally enforced. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and network connections both theoretically and empirically. We...

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Human Capital and Competition: Strategic Complementarities in Firm-based Training

Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Vocational training systems differ markedly between countries. A model of firm-based human capital investment predicts equilibria characterised by particular patterns of training and job-to-job mobility, consistent with observed cross-country differences. Incentives to invest in human capital...

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The Mainstream Niche

Foucart, Renaud - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Consumption in the time of Internet is characterized by extremely low search costs, leading to increased product diversity (the long tail) and large mainstream products (superstars). In this paper, I show how the mainstream taste can be catered by a niche product, while minority tastes can be...

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Matching with Contracts: An Efficient Marriage Market?

Zeng, Chloe Qianzi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

matching market offerscontracts. I show that when expected marital surplus is strictly monotonic in agentsâ€™types, no … separating equilibrium that achieves matching efficiency exists. I then studya social plannerâ€™s problem, finding necessary and … sufficient conditions for a truthful directrevelation mechanism to achieve matching efficiency. These conditions become …

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Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms Strategies for Recruitment and Retention

Stevens, Margaret - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper analyses the contract-posting equilibrium in a general equilibrium matching model of the labour market with … efficient matching of workers to jobs. Contracts with a rising wage-tenure profile can be interpreted as a form of monopsonistic … efficiency of matching. …

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The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas:Â A Labour Market Approach

Allen, Robert; Allen, Robert C.; Murphy, Tommy E.; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

Part of a long-run project to put together a systematic database of prices and wages for the American contingents, this paper takes a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities. From secondary sources we collected price data that - with diverse...

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Random or Non-Random Matching? Implications for the Use of the UV Curve as a Measure of Matching Performance.

Gregg, P; Petrongolo, B - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

of labour market effectiveness in matching vacancies to unemployed job-seekers. This paper attemps to repeat the … stability analysis of the matching technology, having relaxed some of the restrictions generally imposed in deriving a Beveridge …

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