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overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …
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case of perfect competition, an outside owner achieves the first-best; a cooperative typically does not because the rent …'s preferences may not reflect average preferences. Second, in the case where the members of a cooperative have common preference …
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This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an incumbent seller to profitably foreclose a market with exclusive contracts. We use the strategic environment described by Rasmusen, Ramseyer, and Wiley (1991) and Segal and Whinston (2000) where entry is...
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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What tariffs would countries impose if they did not have to fear any retaliation? What would occur if there was a complete breakdown of trade policy cooperation? What would be the outcome if countries engaged in fully efficient trade negotiations? And what would happen to trade policy...
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cooperative behavior than the unrestricted one in a deterministic social dilemma. More importantly, the restricted type is less … explanation is that non-cooperative behavior is less likely to be punished when there is outcome uncertainty. Our findings provide …
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distorts incentives. I assume that employment contracts are incomplete. In the model cooperative members pay in a capital … function of output. If the median member has less than average ability, the cooperative will vote for a redistributive schedule …, cooperative members will be reluctant to leave, since this entails forfeiting the dividends on their capital contribution. The …
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Can a rational choice modeling framework help broaden our understanding of anorexia nervosa? This question is interesting because anorexia nervosa is a serious health concern, and because of the following issue: could a rational choice approach shed useful light on a condition which appears to...
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This paper proposes a simple homogeneous dynamic model of investment and corporate risk management for a financially constrained firm. Following Froot, Scharfstein, and Stein (1993), we define a corporation's risk management as the coordination of investment and financing decisions. In our...
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In theory, we should expect tariffs to be partially offset by a currency appreciation in the tariff-imposing country or …
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