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Optimal pre-merger notification mechanisms : incentives and efficiency of mandatory and voluntary schemes
Rodríguez González, Aldo Javier - 2009
"The authors compare the two merger control systems currently employed worldwide: a mandatory system based on merger size threshold and a voluntary system with ex-post monitoring and fines. The voluntary system possesses two informational advantages: (i) the enforcement agency employs more...
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Global redistribution of income
Bourguignon, François - 2006
with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522101
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Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …
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Distributional effects of crises : / the role of financial transfers
Halac, Marina - 2003
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Uruguay : Income Transfer Policies in Uruguay, Closing the Gaps to Increase Welfare
World Bank - 2012
Uruguay's Government is currently analyzing several reform strategies for the social sectors. These include a health reform, the introduction of a new poverty alleviation program, possible changes in pensions and unemployment insurance, and also a tax reform, that impacts the income transfer...
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Federative Republic of Brazil - Social Insurance and Labor Supply : Assessing Incentives and Redistribution
World Bank - 2013
system in terms of incentives and redistribution. It starts with an overview of institutional arrangements, programs, and … could 'correct' incentives by making redistribution more transparent and progressive. A behavioral life-cycle model …
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Abolishing school fees in Africa : lessons from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique
2009
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Microfinance games
Gine, Xavier (contributor) - 2006
"Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522103
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Does asymmetric information cause the home equity bias?
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio - 2005
"The home equity bias is one of the many puzzles existing in international finance. This puzzle is characterized by the concentration of domestic equity in any investor's portfolio, which is in contradiction with the benchmark of full diversification in a world mutual fund. Based on Admati's...
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Abolishing School Fees in Africa : Lessons from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Mozambique
World Bank - 2012
This book constitutes one of the main outputs of the School Fee Abolition Initiative (SFAI). The initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank, was designed to support countries in maintaining and accelerating progress toward universal primary...
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