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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868004
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Market structure and strategic bi-sourcing
Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 82 (2012) 1, pp. 210-219
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685018
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The competition of user networks : ergodicity, lock-ins, and metastability
Woeckener, Bernd - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 41 (2000) 1, pp. 85-99
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A competitive analysis of fail fast : shakeout and uncertainty about consumer tastes
Meagher, Kieron J.; Wong, Arlene; Zauner, Klaus G. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 177 (2020), pp. 589-600
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437584
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778446
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Contestable privatization
Drook-Gal, Bat-Sheva; Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 54 (2004) 3, pp. 377-387
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002106570
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Quality and competition between public and private firms
Laine, Liisa T.; Ma, Ching-to Albert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 140 (2017), pp. 336-353
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924818
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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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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106946