Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,434
Cover Image
Labour and product market reforms : a case for policy complementarity
Amable, Bruno (contributor); Gatti, Donatella (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115431
Cover Image
Gains from variety : refugee-host interactions in Uganda
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo; … - 2023
Refugees are mainly hosted in low-income countries, where they often remain for a long time. Therefore, it is important to assess how they integrate with the local economy and to what extent their presence can contribute to the transition to a more dynamic economic environment. Proximity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339091
Cover Image
Reciprocity and learning effects in price competition
Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2023
, however, full information reduces negative reciprocity and competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437914
Cover Image
Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516903
Cover Image
Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current … consumers are more likely to reap the benefits of greater competition. This method represents a powerful tool for supporting the … analysis of competition reforms in developing countries, particularly in sectors known for excluding significant segments of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418650
Cover Image
The demand for variety : a household production perspective
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor);  … - 2007
Economists have devoted substantial attention to firms’ supply of variety, but little to consumers' demand for variety. Employing the framework of home production, we trace differences in demand to differences in the opportunity costs of activities, which are associated with investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590812
Cover Image
Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010
, Gibbons and Murphy (2002). -- aggregate welfare ; theory of the firm ; relational contracting ; firm heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314275
Cover Image
An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011
qualitative nature of our findings is similar between Cournot and Bertrand competition, suggesting that our results are robust to … the mode of strategic behavior. -- outsourcing tax ; employment effects ; oligopolistic competition ; product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124754
Cover Image
Secular satiation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017
Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704209
Cover Image
Machiavelli versus concave utility functions : should bads be spread out or concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly data on six positive and twelve negative life events in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180363