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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which … from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas …
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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000
the same labor market, resulting in a network externality or strategic complementarity in the adoption of the practice. We … legal penalties - are attenuated by arrears in the local labor market. We estimate the arrears reaction function implied by … equilibria under symmetric local labor market competition are satisfied in 1995 and 1998. Simulation results imply a late payment …
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for …
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On the optimal size of a joint savings association
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Jakubek, Marcin; … - 2022
We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating example and the core of our analysis is a Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA). We measure...
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An optimal split of school classes
Stark, Oded - 2021
In many countries, schools have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by splitting up classes. While the purpose of dividing classes is clearly health-related, the process of doing so poses an interesting question: what is the best way to divide a class so as to maximize the incentive for students...
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Turning relative deprivation into a performance incentive device
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2021
The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...
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Time is on my side : relational contracts and aggregate welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Plüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis … has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in … the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This essay places emphasis on firm organisation, rather than market …
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