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Brusco, Sandro; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 1997

We study the optimal design of the rules of trade in a two-period market given that agents arrive at different times and may only trade with agents present contemporaneously. First period agents face a fixed cost of trading across periods, and their decisions of whether or not to trade in the...

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Efficient Egalitarian Equivalent Allocations over a Single Good

LiCalzi, Marco; Nicolò, Antonio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies efficient and egalitarian allocations over a single heterogeneous and infinitely divisible good. We prove the existence of such allocations using only measure-theoretic arguments. Under the additional assumption of complete information, we identify a sufficient condition on...

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Envy-Freeness and Implementation in Large Economies

Jackson, Matthew O.; Kremer, Ilan - EconWPA - 2003

We show that an asymptotic envy-freeness is a necessary condition for a form of robust approximate implementation in …

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Efficiency and Voluntary Implementation in Markets with Repeated Pairwise Bargaining

Jackson, Matthew O.; Palfrey, Thomas R. - EconWPA - 1997

bargain through some extensive game form. We take an implementation approach, characterizing the possible allocation rules …

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Gewährleisten umgesetzte WTO-Streitschlichtungsurteile offene Märkte? Eine Betrachtung am Beispiel des Zeitschriftenfalles

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - EconWPA - 2005

the implementation of rulings. Against this background, it is puzzling that the specific WTO procedure which deals with … allegedly insufficient implementation is used only in about one third of the cases where the need for implementation has arisen …. Yet, a closer look at the where implementation has allegedly occurred can partly resolve this puzzle: The defendant …

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SELF-SELECTION UNDER NON-ORDERED VALUATIONS: TYPE-SPLITTING, ENVY-CYCLES, RATIONING AND EFFICIENCY

Nahata, Babu; Kokovin, Serguei; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - EconWPA - 2003

We analyze self-selection problem when valuations are non-ordered. The corresponding package-pricing solution has specific graph structure. It is helpful in deriving weak su±cient conditions for both partial e±ciency and Pareto-e±ciency. Unlike the ordered valuations case, Pareto e±ciency is...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

There is very little evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on prices using monthly Brazilian household and price data from 1982 to 2000 aggregated at...

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A Menu Of Minimum Wage Variables For Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence From Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but also the minimum wage has been...

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but also the minimum wage has been used as anti-inflation policy in addition to its social role. This paper estimates...

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