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Local interactions refer to social and economic phenomena where individuals' choices are influenced by the choices of others who are `close' to them socially or geographically. This represents a fairly accurate picture of human experience. Furthermore, since local interactions imply particular...
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Local interactions refer to social and economic phenomena where individuals' choices are influenced by the choices of others who are ‘close’ to them socially or geographically. This represents a fairly accurate picture of human experience. Furthermore, since local interactions imply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679137
(Turkey), which many researchers use without question. We make use of an intertemporal general equilibrium model of trade and …
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With the help of an illustrative general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Moroccan Economy, we test for the significance …
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(Turkey), which many researchers use without question. We make use of an intertemporal general equilibrium model of trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133124
With the help of an illustrative general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Moroccan Economy, we test for the significance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729639
Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...
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Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....
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The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium …-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements economic scarcity. A conventional economic equilibrium results if subjects … equilibrium diversity and level of attention-seeking activities are shown. At the normative level, welfare, efficiency and optimal …
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