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A critique of shareholder value maximization
Magill, Michael; Quinzii, Martine; Rochet, Jean-Charles - 2013
fi rms. In that case, a competitive equilibrium with shareholder value maximizing fi rms (capitalist equilibrium) is … their shareholder value and of their contributions to consumer and employee welfares, the new competitive equilibrium … (stakeholder equilibrium) improves upon the capitalist equilibrium …
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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets
He, Yinghua - 2019
Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...
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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Bandiera, Oriana - 2014
The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy
Falkinger, Josef - 2021
This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium …-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements economic scarcity. A conventional economic equilibrium results if subjects … equilibrium diversity and level of attention-seeking activities are shown. At the normative level, welfare, efficiency and optimal …
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Non-parametric counterfactual analysis in dynamic general equilibrium
Kubler, Felix; Schmedders, Karl - 2009
equilibrium model. Under the assumption of time-separable expected utility and complete markets all equilibria in this model are … stationary. The Arrow-Debreu prices uniquely reveal the probabilities and discount factor. The equilibrium correspondence …, defined as the map from endowments to stationary (probability-free) state prices, is identical to the equilibrium …
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Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program : Evidence Using Household Panel Data
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....
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A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences are Ordinal
Stark, Holger; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023
We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment
Lu, Hao; De Fuentes, Claudia; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022
Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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The interest rate sensitivity of real estate
Chaney, Alain; Hoesli, Martin - 2010
This study yields a contribution to a better understanding of the interest rate sensitivity of real estate and should enable a more sophisticated interest rate risk management, especially for insurance companies and pension funds. This is achieved by modelling the whole life of a typical but...
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Hybrid cat-bonds
Barrieu, Pauline (contributor); Loubergé, Henri (contributor) - 2007
Natural catastrophes attract regularly the attention of media and have become a source of public concern. From a financial viewpoint, natural catastrophes represent idiosyncratic risks, diversifiable at the world level. But for reasons analyzed in this paper reinsurance markets are unable to...
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