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India's platform economy and emerging regulatory challenges
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Bagchi, Kaushambi - 2021
The phenomenal rise of the platform economy has reshaped how economies operate across the world. The importance of digital platforms has never been more evident than in combatting the ongoing corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic. Even with the threat of a global recession looming large, technology...
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Vertical Integration under an Optimal Tax Policy: a Consumer Surplus Detrimental Result
Giuranno, Michele G.; Scrimitore, Marcella; … - 2019
It is widely believed that vertical integration in an environment without foreclosure, or more generally without any mechanism that restricts competition among firms, raises the welfare of consumers. In this paper we show that this can be overturned in a standard setting. We consider a vertical...
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Does Public Spending on Youths Affect Crime Rates?
Lindvall, Lars - 2003
youths and crime rates. Using a panel of 261 Swedish municipalities the effects on four crime rates of leisure related …
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Time and money: substitutes in real terms and complements in satisfactions
Bonke, Jens; Deding, Mette; Lausten, Mette - 2006
determination of economic satisfaction and leisure satisfaction. We test some hypotheses, including the hypothesis that leisure … satisfaction depends on both the quantity and quality of leisure-where quality is proxied by good intensiveness and social … intensiveness. Our results show that both the quantity and the quality of leisure are important determinants of leisure satisfaction …
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Economic possibilities for our grandchildren: 90 years later
Bibow, Jörg - 2024
capital accumulation in which mankind has solved its economic problem and enjoys a lifestyle predominantly framed by leisure …
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Siesta: A theory of freelancing
Saez Marti, Maria - 2011
-the-job leisure. In a world with heterogenous agents, the problem may be ameliorated by the introduction of a dual labour market with …
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Do we really value identified lives more highly than statistical lives?
Russell, Louise B. - 2014
Value of Statistical Life (VSL) studies suggest that people's willingness to pay for statistical lives is consistent with their willingness to pay for identified lives. The idea that the valuations are different may be no more than an artifact of the economic method for valuing statistical...
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Growth, water resilience, and sustainability: A DSGE model applied to South Africa
Li, Chuan-Zhong; Swain, Ranjula Bali - 2014
In this paper, we analyze a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model on how water resilience affacts economic growth and dynamic welfare with special reference to South Africa. While water may become a limiting factor for future development in general, as a drought prone and water poor...
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Migrants, ethnicity and the welfare state
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...
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International Environmental Agreements - The Impact of Heterogeneity among Countries on Stability
Diamantoudi, Effrosyni; Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sofokles; … - 2018
The present paper examines the stability of self-enforcing International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) among heterogeneous countries in a twostage emission game. In the first stage each country decides whether or not to join the agreement, while in the second stage the quantity of emissions is...
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