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Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production : the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared
Edwards, Eric C. - 2020
We examine the origins, persistence, and economic consequences of institutional structures of agricultural production. We compare farms in the Argentine Pampas and US Midwest, regions of similar potential input and output mixes. The focus is on 1910-1914, during the international grain trade...
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Trade and security
Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, Douglas - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000642959
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Characteristics of TQM : Evidence from the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup Competition
Rosett, Joshua G. - 1999
This paper reports the results of a field study examining the use of TQM at 15 firms. The sample is drawn from winners and finalists of the RIT/USA Today Quality Cup. The authors interviewed 75 employees (5 per firm) including 14 executives, 44 middle managers, and 17 front line workers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471549
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Use It or Lose It : Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
Guvenen, Fatih - 2019
systems have opposite implications for both efficiency and inequality. Under capital income taxation, entrepreneurs who are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480228
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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
Garber, Alan M. - 2008
The U.S. health system has been described as the most competitive, heterogeneous, inefficient, fragmented, and advanced system of care in the world. In this paper, we consider two questions: First, is the U.S. health care system productively efficient relative to other wealthy countries, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464374
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State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise
Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2015
We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457736
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Letter Grading Government Efficiency
Chong, Alberto - 2012
, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460391
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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs
Kyle, Margaret - 2017
quality drugs diffuse more in the US relative to high quality drugs, compared to each of our four comparison countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455612
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Comparative Localization of Academic and Industrial Spillovers
Adams, James D. - 2001
This paper studies localization of academic and industrial knowledge spillovers. Using data on U.S. Research and Development laboratories, that quantify spatial aspects of learning about universities and firms as well as their locations, I find that academic spillovers are more localized than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470432
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A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies
Fullerton, Don - 2001
This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different … approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects, even while they have different distributional effects. For … efficiency, enforcement capabilities, and political feasibility). The paper ends with a discussion of likely trade-offs among …
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