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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run

Bell, Clive - 2019

This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...

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Growth, Longevity and Public Policy

Ponthiere, Gregory - 2021

This paper studies the optimal long-run public intervention in a two-period OLG model where the probability of surviving the first period and the length of the second period can be influenced by distinct policies. While the optimal size of public intervention depends on the extra-productivity of...

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Outsourcing Public Services : Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Andersson, Fredrik - 2019

contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …

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Technology, Market Structure and the Gains from Trade

Impullitti, Giammario - 2018

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation …. Oligopolistic competition together with free entry make markups responsive to firm productivity and trade costs. Lowering trade … incomplete pass-through of trade costs to export markups are strong enough to compensate for the increase in competition on …

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Government Outsourcing : Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose...

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Competition between Content Distributors in Two-Sided Markets

Bergh, Harald - 2012

We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets advertising prices. Within this framework we show that the distributors...

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Apparent Competition in Two-Sided Platforms

Guven, Gokhan - 2017

prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them …

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Price Coordination in Two-Sided Markets : Competition in the TV Industry

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2010

competition between the TV channels, since they take into account the fact that a lower viewer price at one channel will harm …

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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Competition in Public Service Provision : The Role of Not-for-Profit Providers

Besley, Timothy J. - 2018

developing a novel approach to competition between different organizational forms, it frames the relevant trade-offs precisely …

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