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effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed …
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Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
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have equilibrium or unemployment in the service sector. Market forces then lead to higher service prices, implying that the …
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The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive...
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Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of … export experience in a market are more likely to source service inputs from there. We rationalize this fact in a model where …
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Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...
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problem, we introduce a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and … democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while threshold contracts … possible pitfalls of the mechanism. -- democracy ; elections ; information markets ; threshold contracts and triple mechanism …
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in the spirit of Wilson (1977)'s 'anticipatory equilibrium' by introducing an additional stage in which initial contracts … consumers obtain their respective Wilson-Miyazaki-Spence (WMS) contract. Jointly profit-making contracts can also be sustained … as equilibrium contracts. However, the secondbest efficient WMS allocation is the unique equilibrium allocation under …
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