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Position Auctions with Consumer Search
Athey, Susan - 2010
This paper examines a model in which advertisers bid for "sponsored-link" positions on a search engine. The value advertisers derive from each position is endogenized as coming from sales to a population of consumers who make rational inferences about firm qualities and search optimally....
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High-Capacity Donors’ Preferences for Charitable Giving
Alston, Mackenzie - 2018
How can charities solicit high-capacity donors to provide the funds for matching grants and leadership gifts? In conjunction with one of Texas A&M University's fundraising organizations, we conducted a field experiment to study whether high-income donors respond to non-personal solicitations, as...
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The Endowment Model and Modern Portfolio Theory
Dimmock, Stephen G. - 2019
We develop a dynamic portfolio-choice model with illiquid alternative assets to analyze conditions under which the “Endowment Model,” used by some large institutional investors such as university endowments, does or does not work. The alternative asset has a lock-up, but can be voluntarily...
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Procuring Knowledge
Maurer, Stephen M.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
of public and private sponsorship, and explain why this makes sense in some circumstances …
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The Olympic Effect
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2010
Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting quot;mega-eventsquot; such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policy-makers and the population, who are...
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities : Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee - 2010
assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2012
/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India
Dougherty, Sean Michael - 2011
) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …
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