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A theory of urban squatting and land-tenure formalization in developing countries
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Selod, Harris - 2008
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...
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Dynastic Entrepreneurship, Entry, and Non-Compete Enforcement
Rauch, James E. - 2015
We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs … increases the rate of spinoffs from original firms. Indeed, if employers have all the bargaining power vis-à-vis their employees …, optimal entry of original firms and all subsequent employee spinoffs is achieved, despite the fact that the original firm can …
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Sources of the German productivity demise: tracing the effects of industry-level ICT investment
Eicher, Theo S.; Roehn, Oliver - 2007
While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed industry-level...
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms: Does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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Financial Constraints and Moral Hazard: The Case of Franchising
Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013
Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...
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57 Channels (And Nothin On) - Does TV-News on the Eurozone Affect Government Bond Yield Spreads?
Wolfinger, Julia; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; … - 2018
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between TV news coverage and the GIIPS countries’ bond yield spreads using daily data between January 1, 2007 and December 1, 2016. We employ 1,542,233 human coded news items from evening news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries...
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Follow The Money: Online Piracy and Self-Regulation in the Advertising Industry
Batikas, Michail; Claussen, Jörg; Peukert, Christian - 2018
In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...
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Vertical Relations, Pass-through, and Market Definition: Evidence from Grocery Retailing
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Klein, Gordon J.; … - 2020
We examine how different pass-through rates, from input- to final consumer prices, and different vertical contracts affect upstream market definition. Our theory model predicts that, under reasonable conditions, higher pass-through rates lead to definitions of larger upstream markets. Data...
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Taxing Goods and Services in a Digital Era
Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2020
Taxing consumption in the digital economy poses unique challenges for fiscal authorities. Recent institutional reforms, such as states changing remittance rules for the sales and use tax following the Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, were enacted in order to increase tax...
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Immunity-Driven Comparative Advantage and Its Palliative Effect on Social Health and Inequality - A Theoretical Perspective
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2022
We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
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