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Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons … that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers, despite trivial prices for water extraction, use roughly the socially … optimal amount of water on average. The rationing regime is still grossly inefficient, because it misallocates water across …
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by Dreze. This is why recent authors in disequilibrium analysis study the stochastic rationing mechanism. Douglas Gale … proved the existence of the equilibrium with stochastic rationing mechanism. However, Gale 's rationing mechanism requires an …. Green examined a rationing scheme which depends only on the individual effective demand and the aggregate signals. However …
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importance of tickets rises sharply in the stringency of land development regulations, as predicted by theory. We discuss …
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Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities...
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This paper examines empirical issues of pricing and price dispersion within franchised restaurant and fast-food chains. Given the per se illegality of resale price maintenance (RPM) under current U.S. Antitrust laws, and the fact that franchised outlets are independent businesses under the law,...
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This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the … rationing by examining whether the reservation wages of employed unskilled workers in states where the 1990-1991 federal minimum …
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A central question concerning the economic motivation for the adoption of workers' compensation is the extent to which workers had access to their desired levels of private accident insurance around the turn of the century. If insurance were rationed then workers' primary option would have been...
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activity where the queue is unobservable and transactions costs make contracts or spot pricing uneconomic. The theory is …
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Stochastic rationing when the market does not clear draws attention because both Dreze (1975) and Benassy (1975 …. His stochastic rationing depends on all the individual effective demands. It is too vague to characterize a rationing … (1978) to characterizing the rationing scheme as the individual effective demand times the rationing number which is a …
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In this paper we evaluate the incidence of a large cut in value-added taxes (VAT) for French sit-down restaurants. In contrast to previous studies that focus on prices only, we estimate its effect on four groups: workers, firm owners, consumers and suppliers of material goods. Using a...
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