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We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference design, we exploit exogenous variation in the degree to which villages in sub-districts compete for public funds. We find that higher competition between villages reduces conflict...
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We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and provide a formula to decompose the mechanism. The new insight we provide is that market concentration can be a welfare-relevant feature of market power above and beyond markup...
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Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...
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This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the market structure of the final goods sector is represented by a monopoly or Cournot oligopoly, and the supplier sector - by a pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining...
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The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to …
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We study the relative performance of the first‐price sealed‐bid auction and the second-price sealed‐bid auction in a … reveals the winner’s payment to an outside observer. We find that the first‐price sealed‐bid auction in which the winner …
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fluctuations in prices. In this paper, we examine the dynamic auction design and propose a method to curb price volatility through …
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auction process. We also show how the benefits associated with the head-start given to districts with more Church land … initially, and thus greater land redistribution by auction during the Revolution, dissipated over the course of the nineteenth …
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This paper proposes a framework for demand estimation with data on bids, bidders' identities, and auction covariates … dynamic auction model with IPV and private bidding costs it follows that if participation is optimal the bidder searches with … a reservation bid for low-price auctions. Extending results from the empirical auction literature and employing a …
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reserve price that would set a minimum price in allowance auctions. Opponents of an auction reserve price in the EU ETS have … expressed concern that a minimum auction price would interfere with economic operations in the market or would be tantamount to … and legal arguments for and against an auction reserve price. Our economic analysis concludes that an auction reserve …
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