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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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Federal Lands, Opportunity Costs, and Bureaucratic Management
Libecap, Gary D. - 2018
The federal government owns and administers 472, 892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower US, making it both the country's largest land owner and among the largest by a central government among western democracies. This condition is surprising, given that the US generally is viewed as...
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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2017
This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the...
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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data
Klapper, Leora - 2004
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523101
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Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company
Le Bris, David; Goetzmann, William N.; Pouget, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
companies in England and the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Highlighting medieval cases in southern Europe, we claim …
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The Topography of Nations
Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
simple algorithm for its calculation. When combined with detailed spatial geography data from Europe, the equilibrium …
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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …
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A Century of Missing Trade?
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2001
In contemporary data, the measured factor content of trade is far smaller than its predicted magnitude in the pure Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek framework, the so-called 'missing trade' mystery. We wonder if this problem has been there from the beginning: that is, we ask if the Heckscher-Ohlin theory...
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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …
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Consumer City
Glaeser, Ed - 2000
Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and...
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