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The increase in sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the primary consequences of climate change and has the potential to impact tuna fisheries. This paper theoretically models and then applies the production function approach to establish a positive but non-linear relationship between catch...
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formed and how price-based incentives lead to voluntary, as if cooperative, behavior by agents. This active learning method … engages students while improving their comprehension of price formation, gains from trade, voluntary response to incentives …
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The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career selection where juniors value both the identity and perceived quality of...
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We evaluate equity-efficiency trade-offs from admissions quotas by examining effects on output once beneficiaries start producing in the relevant industry. In particular, we document the impact of abolishing a 40% quota for male primary school teachers in Finland on their pupils' long-run...
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. Price-cost margins and bid shading are affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper …A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have … uncertain common and private value components and there is no exogenous noise in the system. A Bayesian supply function …
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imperfectly implemented policies may lead to detrimental environmental outcomes due to supply side responses. We use the … future sales to decline, would supply more of their resource between the announcement of the Acid Rain Program and its … implementation; moreover, the incentive to increase supply would be stronger for owners of high-sulfur coal. This would, all else …
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price …
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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their … uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition …, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the …
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subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the …
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mainly the imposition of a highly unrealistic prior for the global impact price elasticity of oil supply. Once identification … uncertainty about the global price elasticity of oil supply is accounted for by specifying a prior more in line with extraneous …
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