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Pampered bureaucracy, political stability, and trade integration
Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country's institutions, which … in turn inuences its economic efficiency. The environment we explore is one in which a country's lower classes may revolt … economic efficiency. Trade integration alters the relative value of the elite's wealth. This alters the lower classes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615513
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A theory of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization
Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017
contributions. One is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between political institutions and economic efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721779
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How do institutions affect the impact of natural disasters?
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Lamers, Martien; … - 2022
In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries' institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in … output distance frontier model to assess two important aspects of the relation-ship between institutions and hazard impacts … else equal, suffer relative to the best performing countries. We can refer to this as the countries' (in)efficiency at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473916
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Measuring tax efficiency : a tax optimality index : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. - 2004
current tax configuration is from the optimal one and, thereby, the degree of efficiency of a tax system. We call this number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449998
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The third generation (UMTS) spectrum auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2001
The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and presents a game theoretic explanation of observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400807
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Innovation of network goods : a non-innovating firm will gain
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Mustonen, Mikko - 2002
We consider duopolists innovating and producing a good subject to network externalities, so that the reservation price of a consumer increases with aggregate consumption. The post-innovation network consists of two compatible sub-networks, with increased network valuation of the new product....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409408
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The Dutch UMTS-auction
Damme, Eric E. C. van - 2002
In this paper I review the Dutch UMTS-auction that took place in the summer of 2000 and which, in contrast to the UK and German auctions, was generally considered to be a major flop. I analyse the policy process leading to the auction as well as the bidding behaviour in the auction, and provide...
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Efficient level of SEPs licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817846
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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951676
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Agreeing on efficient emissions reduction
Bos, Olivier; Roussillon, Béatrice; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772819