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Decisions under Uncertainty in Decentralized Online Markets: Empirical Studies of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Outsourcing
Lin, Mingfeng - 2010
Recent developments in information technologies, especially Web 2.0 technologies, have radically transformed many markets through disintermediation and decentralization. Lower barriers of entry in these markets enable small firms and individuals to engage in transactions that were otherwise...
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Economic development, growth, institutions and geography
Bhupatiraju, Samyukta; Verspagen, Bart - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
by using a broader set of definitions for institutions, geography and economic variables. We use a multi-faceted database … institutions trump other factors (geography and trade) when we use GDP per capita as an independent variable. When we expand the … geography are all important variables. In this case, institutions no longer trump the other factors. In this case, we also find …
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Spatial Patterns and Size Distributions of Cities
Hsu, Wen-Tai; Mori, Tomoya; Smith, Tony E. - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2014
City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. One popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities within a...
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Human welfare
von Grebmer, Klaus; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; Wiesmann, Doris; … - In: Atlas of African agriculture research and development: …
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Drivers of change
Trabucco, Antonio; Zomer, Robert; Thornton, Philip K.; … - In: Atlas of African agriculture research and development: …
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Political, demographic, and institutional classifications
Sebastian, Kate; Wood, Stanley; Stads, Gert-Jan; … - In: Atlas of African agriculture research and development: …
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Growing conditions
Sebastian, Kate; Claessens, Lieven; Van Wart, Justin; … - In: Atlas of African agriculture research and development: …
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Access to trade
Guo, Zhe; Cox, Cindy M. - In: Atlas of African agriculture research and development: …
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Knowns, Unknowns, and Impacts
Jackson, Randall - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2011
Jouke van Dijk opened the most recent issue of Papers in Regional Science with “Long lasting knowledge in Regional Science,” an editorial highlighting the role that the Association’s journal has played in documenting much of the key regional science research since its inception....
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The Local Determinants of Victimization
Hémet, Camille - HAL - 2013
This paper explores the determinants of victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French victimization survey. Its contribution to the economics of crime literature is threefold. First, I provide evidence that neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than...
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