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This paper examines the relationship between differences in civil society development under communism and divergence in the nature and pace of political and economic reform and transformation after 1989. We put together a unique data set on dissident activities for the 27 former centrally...
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How do firms' sales interact across markets? Are foreign and domestic sales complements or substitutes? Using a large … firms' demand on foreign markets to instrument yearly variations in exports. We use alternatively as instruments product …
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We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy and sell their votes with each other. We define the concept of Ex Ante Vote-Trading Equilibrium, identify weak sufficient conditions for existence, and construct one such...
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Centralized markets with large numbers of buyers and sellers are generally thought of as being competitive and well …-functioning. However, an important role of centralized markets is matching heterogeneous products, such as fish, to buyers of these …
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This paper examines the properties of exams and markets as alternative allocation devices under borrowing constraints …. Exams dominate markets in terms of matching efficiency. Whether aggregate consumption is greater under exams than under … markets depends on the power of the exam technology; for a sufficiently powerful test, exams dominate markets in terms of …
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This Paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
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In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organizations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital risk are subject to risk shifting. They realize more of their...
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We study competitive market outcomes in economies where agents have other-regarding preferences. We identify a separability condition on monotone preferences that is necessary and sufficient for one's own demand to be independent of the allocations and characteristics of other agents in the...
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From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these ‘Corn Returns’ were published in the London Gazette. We computerised the data published 1770-1864, totalling around 6 million data points. Here we...
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We experimentally examine the effects of flexible and fixed prices in markets for experience goods in which demand is … driven by trust. With flexible prices, we observe low prices and high quality in competitive (oligopolistic) markets, and … high prices coupled with low quality in non-competitive (monopolistic) markets. We then introduce a regulated intermediate …
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