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Designing a private industry : government auctions with endogenous market structure
Dana, James D. - In: Journal of public economics 53 (1994) 1, pp. 127-147
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001154111
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861271
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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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Privatisation and market structure in a transition economy
Bennett, John; Maw, James W. - In: Journal of public economics 77 (2000) 3, pp. 357-382
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001495197
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Does market size matter for charities?
Lapointe, Simon; Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberly A.; … - In: Journal of public economics 168 (2018), pp. 127-145
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782768
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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
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Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? : evidence from the English National Health Service
Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Steve; Skellern, Matthew - In: Journal of public economics 166 (2018), pp. 63-80
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035919
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021
market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324752