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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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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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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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Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls

Dafny, Leemore - 2006

This paper investigates whether managers who fail to exploit regulatory loopholes are vulnerable to replacement. We use the U.S. hospital industry in 1985-1996 as a case study. A 1988 change in Medicare rules widened a pre-existing loophole in the Medicare payment system, presenting hospitals...

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Technology and Local State Capacity : Evidence from Ghana

Dzansi, James; Jensen, Anders; Lagakos, David; Telli, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then...

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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics

Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

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Globalization and Factor Income Taxation

Bachas, Pierre; Fisher-Post, Matthew H.; Jensen, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question we build and analyze a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering 150 countries since 1965, constructed by combining national accounts data with government revenue...

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Does the Tax System Favor Investment in High-Tech or Smoke-Stack Industries?

Fullerton, Don - 1985

When tax rates vary by asset, a "hidden" industrial policy may aid industries that invest in a certain mix of assets. In this paper, we examine whether differential use of depreciable assets gives rise to differential tax treatment of high technology industries relative to other industries....

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