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Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay : Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients
Heffetz, Ori - 2017
We study response behavior of New York City parking-ticket recipients by analyzing administrative data on 6.6 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966587
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An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion
Arnott, Richard J.; Inci, Eren - 2021
This paper presents a downtown parking model that integrates traffic congestion and saturated on-street parking. We … assume that the stock of cars cruising for parking adds to traffic congestion. Two major results come out from the model, one … of which is robust. The robust one is that, whether or not the amount of on-street parking is optimal, it is efficient to …
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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
Greaney, Brian - 2014
This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...
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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-Up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals
McCabe, Mark J. - 2019
The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...
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Can You Get What You Pay for? Pay-for-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers
Mullen, Kathleen J. - 2010
Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757542
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Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision
Spencer, Michael A. - 2010
This paper considers how six alternative rebate rules affect voluntary contributions in a threshold public-good experiment. The rules differ by (1) whether an individual can receive a proportional rebate of excess contributions, a winner-takes-all of any excess contributions, or a full rebate of...
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The Effect of Taxes on Royalties and the Migration of Intangible Assets Abroad
Mutti, John - 2010
Migration of intangible assets from the United States to foreign countries has become easier due to the ability of U.S. firms to create hybrid entities in their affiliates abroad and to reach favorable cost sharing agreements with them. This strategy was particularly encouraged by the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759943
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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2010
Many students enrolled in academic programs around the world take longer to obtain a degree than the normal completion time while college tuition is typically constant during the years of enrollment. In particular, it does not increase when a student remains in a program beyond the normal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760426
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On the Regulation of Fee Structures in Mutual Funds
Das, Sanjiv Ranjan - 2010
We offer an alternative framework for the analysis of mutual funds and use it to examine the rationale behind existing regulations that require mutual fund advisor fees to be of the fulcrum' variety. We find little justification for the regulations. Indeed, we find that asymmetric incentive...
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Fees on Fees in Funds of Funds
Brown, Stephen J. - 2009
Funds of funds are an increasingly popular avenue for hedge fund investment. Despite the increasing interest in hedge funds as an alternative asset class, the high degree of fund specific risk and the lack of transparency may give fiduciaries pause. In addition, many of the most attractive hedge...
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