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Consent and Exchange
Bar-Gill, Oren - 2007
In some cases, the law permits a party that unilaterally provides a benefit to another party to recover the estimated value of this benefit. Despite calls for expanding the set of cases to which such a restitution rule applies, the law commonly applies a mutual consent rule under which a party...
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Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics
Shleifer, Andrei - 2010
provision and asset purchase policies of the Federal Reserve …
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Eminent Domain Versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperpect Information About Owners' Valuation
Shavell, Steven - 2007
's information about landowners' valuations is imperfect. Under this assumption, the policy of purchase possesses the market test …
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio J. - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Occupational Classifications : A Machine Learning Approach
Ikudo, Akina - 2018
, classification has been done manually. If it were possible to combine new computational tools and administrative wage records to …
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Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
McMichael, Benjamin J. - 2020
period based on actual statutory and regulatory language. Our classification of scope of practice laws solves an important …
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Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error : Evidence from the Human Development Index
Wolff, Hendrik - 2010
We measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development Index. We identify three sources of data error which are due to (i) data updating, (ii) formula revisions and (iii) thresholds to classify a country's development status. We...
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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time
Pierce, Justin R. - 2009
This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time; describes the concordances we construct for 1989 to 2004; and provides Stata code that can be used to construct similar concordances for arbitrary beginning and ending years from 1989...
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The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements : A Reinterpretation
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2002
previous classification efforts is that we employ an extensive data base on market-determined parallel exchange rates. Our … 'natural' classification algorithm leads to a stark reassessment of the post-war history of exchange rate arrangements. When … the official categorization is a form of peg, roughly half the time our classification reveals the true underlying …
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Accounting for Outward Direct Investment from Hong Kong and Singapore : Who Controls What?
Low, Linda - 1996
After a brief introduction and examination of the economic rationale for accounting for foreign direct investment (FDI), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of accounting for such FDI by geographical source or by...
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