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Owning, Using and Renting : Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy"
Horton, John J. - 2016
New Internet-based markets enable consumer/owners to rent out their durable goods when not using them. Such markets are modeled to determine ownership, rental rates, quantities, and surplus generated. Both the short run, before consumers can revise their ownership decisions, and the long run, in...
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The Economics of Time-Limited Development Options : The Case of Oil and Gas Leases
Herrnstadt, Evan M. - 2020
Oil and gas leases between mineral owners and extraction firms ubiquitously include royalty and primary term clauses. The royalty denotes the share of revenue that is paid to the mineral owner, and the primary term specifies the date by which the firm must complete a well, lest it lose the...
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Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation : Evidence from U.S. Airlines
Benmelech, Efraim - 2008
How do liquidation values affect financial contract renegotiation? While the 'incomplete contracting' theory of financial contracting predicts that liquidation values determine the allocation of bargaining power between creditors and debtors, there is little empirical evidence on financial...
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The Role of Leasing under Adverse Selection
Hendel, Igal - 1998
Leasing contracts specify a rental rate and an option price at which the used good can be bought at the termination of … prices. In contrast, under adverse selection, leasing contracts affect equilibrium allocations in a way that matches observed … behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect …
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Measuring The Natural Rate Using Natural Experiments
Bäcker-Peral, Verónica; Hazell, Jonathon; Mian, Atif - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Every month, a fraction of UK property leases are extended for another 90 years or more. We use new data on thousands of these natural experiments from 2003 onwards to estimate the "natural rate of return on capital", \(r_K^\text{*}\), which also represents the long-run dividend-price ratio....
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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000
lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the...
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Discriminating Among Alternative Theories of the Multinational Enterprise
Markusen, James R. - 1999
Recent theoretical developments have incorporated endogenous multinational firms into the general-equilibrium model of trade. One simple taxonomy separates the theory into vertical' models in which firms geographically separate activities by stages of production and horizontal' models of...
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Patterns of Trade in the Market for Used Durables : Theory and Evidence
Porter, Robert H. - 1999
The consumption value of a durable good diminishes as it ages due to physical deterioration and consumers' preference for the new. We develop a model of consumer specialization and trade in the market for used durables based on imperfect substitutability. Imperfect substitutability across...
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Discount Rate Risk in Private Equity : Evidence from Secondary Market Transactions
Boyer, Brian H.; Nadauld, Taylor D.; Vorkink, Keith; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Standard measures of private equity performance based on cash flows overlook discount rate risk. An index constructed from prices paid in secondary market transactions indicates that private equity discount rates vary considerably. While the standard alpha for our index is zero, measures of...
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Frictions in Product Markets
Gavazza, Alessandro; Lizzeri, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This is an invited chapter for the forthcoming Volume 4 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization. We focus on markets with frictions, such as transaction costs, asymmetric information, search and matching frictions. We discuss how such frictions affect allocations, favor the emergence of...
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