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Cues for coordination : light, longitude and Letterman
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor);  … - 2006
norms that affect everyone. -- time use ; labor supply ; synchronous activities ; time zones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304674
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Access to banking services and poverty reduction : a state-wise assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831814
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Supply theory sans profit-maximization
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite … collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a consistency postulate for a stochastic supply function that … may be satisfied even if no underlying deterministic supply function is rationalizable in terms of profit maximization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810898
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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods
Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230686
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Demand or supply? : price adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic
Balleer, Almut; Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; … - 2020
We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259571
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Hidden action, identification, and organization design
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010
-tasking problem. -- moral hazard ; hidden action ; implementation ; multi-tasking ; identification by organization design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303451
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Health and economic development : evidence from the introduction of public health care
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312066
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Incentive pay and performance : insider econometrics in a multi-unit firm
Bogaard, Hein; Švejnar, Jan - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224591
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Bismarck's health insurance and the mortality decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879770
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Ambulance utilization in New York City after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles; Friedson, Andrew; Rees, Daniel I. - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821437