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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...

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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach

Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … Switzerland. The most commonly used measure for this kind of exercise is the Claims / Premium ratio. We argue that this measure … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the …

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Paying postage : estimating the elasticity of voter turnout

Schelker, Mark; Schneiter, Marco - 2015

We aim to estimate the elasticity of voter turnout. We analyze how voters react to a change in voting costs. Some municipalities in the canton of Berne reduced voting costs by paying the postage of the return envelope when voters opt for postal voting. We find that paying the postage is...

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Deep dynamics

Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2021

How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...

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National borders, conflict and peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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History, expectations, and public policy : economic development in Eastern Germany

Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2010 - This version: September 14, 2010

Motivated by the process of economic development in Eastern Germany since the German reunification we set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level. The model features multiple...

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Growth, development, and technological change

Grossmann, Volker (contributor); … - 2007

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The economics of political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

This paper presents concepts from economic analysis that shed light on the formation and breakup of sovereign states. First, we discuss the key trade-off between economies of scale in the provision of public goods and political costs from heterogeneity of preferences. Second, we present four...

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Managerial versus production wages : offshoring, country size and endowments

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010

In this paper, we explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries. We emphasize the distinction between managerial and production labor. Production labor is assumed to be a variable input composed of tradable...

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Market size and TFP in new new trade theory

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin - 2015

Recent trade theory in the Krugman (1980) tradition predicts that countries with larger market size enjoy higher levels of total factor productivity (TFP) - and equivalently of real per capita income or welfare - as a smaller fraction of spending on inputs is affected by trade costs. However, in...

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