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Contract Form and Procurement Costs : The Impact of Compulsory Multiple Contractor Laws in Construction
Ashenfelter, Orley - 1997
It is claimed that many regulatory rules enforce inefficiencies in order to achieve the appearance of cost control. We assess the importance of these claims by measuring the effect of New York state's compulsory multiple contractor law on the cost of public construction in New York City....
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Detection of Bid Rigging in Procurement Auctions
Porter, Robert H. - 1992
This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in...
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Does Information Feedback from In-Home Devices Reduce Electricity Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Attari, Shahzeen Z. - 2014
There is limited evidence of behavioral changes resulting from electricity information feedback. Using a randomized control trial from a New York apartment building, we study long-term effects of information feedback from "Modlet" in-home devices, which provide near-real-time plug-level...
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The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies : Evidence from Field Experiments
Brandon, Alec; Clapp, Christopher M.; List, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Smart-home technologies have been heralded as an important way to increase energy conservation. While in vitro engineering estimates provide broad optimism, little has been done to explore whether such estimates scale beyond the lab. We estimate the causal impact of smart thermostats on energy...
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Balance-of-payments adjustment policies: Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands
Michaely, Michael - 1968
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry
Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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Low Wage Services : Interpreting the US - German Difference
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …
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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. the US
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …
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