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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
Bell, Clive - 2019
This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...
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Outsourcing Public Services : Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
Andersson, Fredrik - 2019
contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …
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Private monopoly and restricted entry : evidence from the notary profession
Verboven, Frank; Yontcheva, Biliana - 2022
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The tension between market shares and profit under platform competition
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin; Toulemonde, Eric - 2020
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Market size and competition : a "hump-shaped" result
Grant, Iris; Kesternich, Iris; Schumacher, Heiner; Van … - 2019
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2007
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
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Network competition in the airline industry : an empirical framework
Yuan, Zhe; Barwick, Panle Jia - 2024
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What happened to U.S. business dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …
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Banks in space
Oberfield, Ezra; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Trachter, Nicholas - 2024
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