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Mobile Money : The Economics of M-PESA
Jack, William - 2011
Mobile money is a tool that allows individuals to make financial transactions using cell phone technology. In this paper, we report initial results of two rounds of a large survey of households in Kenya, the country that has seen perhaps the most rapid and widespread growth of a mobile money...
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Mobile Money, Interoperability, and Financial Inclusion
Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Limodio, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates the tradeoff between competition and financial inclusion resulting from the vertical integration between mobile network and money operators. Joining newly assembled data on mobile money fees through the WayBack machine, with sources on network coverage and financials, we...
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An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion
Arnott, Richard - 2005
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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Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay : Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients
Heffetz, Ori - 2016
We study response behavior of New York City parking-ticket recipients by analyzing administrative data on 6.6 million …
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Skill and Fees in Active Management
Stambaugh, Robert F. - 2019
Greater skill of active investment managers can mean less fee revenue in a general equilibrium. Although more-skilled managers earn more revenue than less-skilled managers, greater skill for active managers overall can imply less revenue for their industry. Greater skill allows managers to...
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Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers
Mullen, Kathleen J. - 2009
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...
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Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision
Spencer, Michael A. - 2008
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 H. - 2007
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....
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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2007
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...
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The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges : Evidence from a Structural Entry Model
Gowrisankaran, Gautam - 2006
We estimate a structural model of the market for automatic teller machines (ATMs) in order to evaluate the implications of regulating ATM surcharges on ATM entry and consumer and producer surplus. We estimate the model using data on firm and consumer locations, and identify the parameters of the...
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