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The Beveridge curve
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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Unemployment in Britain: a European success story
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Unemployment in Britain has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key reasons are first … the reform of monetary policy, in 1993 with the adoption of inflation targeting and in 1997 with the establishment of the … an institutional change that reduced inflationary expectations in the face of falling unemployment. The decline of trade …
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Emergency purchasing situations: implications for consumer decision-making
Samson, Alain; Voyer, Benjamin G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This article introduces the Emergency Purchasing Situation (EPS) as a distinct buying context. EPSs stem from an unexpected event (unanticipated need or timing of a need), as well as high product importance, which are associated with a short time frame for consumer decision-making. Our...
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Elusive partnerships: gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh
Gardner, Katy; Ahmed, Zahir; Bashir, Fatema; Rana, Masud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper examines Chevron's programme of CSR at a gas field in Bangladesh. Whilst apparently building partnerships in the villages that surround the Bibiyana Gas Field, we suggest that the corporation remains detached from the local population via their community development programmes and...
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Climate change policy and business in Europe: evidence from interviewing managers
Anderson, Barry; Leib, Jörg; Martin, Ralf; McGuigan, Marty - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This report presents new evidence relating to the effects of climate policy in Europe, particularly the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The evidence is based on new data from almost 800 phone interviews we conducted with managers in manufacturing plants in six European...
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Read my lips : the political economy of information transmission
Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses...
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Land distribution, incentives and the choice of production techniques in Nicaragua
Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Does the distribution of land rights affect the choice of contractible techniques? I present evidence suggesting that Nicaraguan farmers are more likely to grow effort-intensive crops on owned rather than on rented plots. I consider two theoretical arguments that illustrate why property rights...
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Anti-evasion auditing policy in the presence of common income shocks
Sanchez-Villalba, Miguel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
When fairly homogeneous taxpayers are affected by common income shocks, a tax agency’s optimal auditing strategy consists of auditing a low-income declarer with a probability that (weakly) increases with the other taxpayers’ declarations. Such policy generates a coordination game among...
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A theory of supervision with endogenous transaction costs
Faure-Grimaud, Antoine; Laffont, Jean-Jacques; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
We propose a theory of supervision with endogenous transaction costs. A principal delegates part of his authority to a supervisor who can acquire soft information about an agent's productivity. If the supervisor were risk-neutral, the principal would simply make the better informed supervisor...
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Cooperatives vs. outside ownership
Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
We are concerned with the design of a constitution for a firm - an ex ante contract which assigns residual rights of control (and possibly residual income rights) without reference to the issue to be decided. We focus attention on two polar constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside...
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