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This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
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benefits only if they aggregate their private information. Some members of the society, however, are harmed by socially … desirable policies and aim at manipulating information aggregation by misrepresenting their private information. We show that … information can be aggregated and a socially desirable policy can be implemented under a new class of democratic mechanisms …
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"The efficiency of common law rules is central to achieving efficient resource allocation in a market economy. While many theories suggest reasons why judge-made law should tend toward efficient rules, the question whether the common law actually does converge in commercial areas has remained...
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