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monopoly and monopsony power in the world market, both the importing and the exporting countries may well be better off if …
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traded. Finally, it is proved that when a private firm exerts monopoly and monopsony power in the world market, both the …
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exporting country can make possible monopsony behavior by fish processors in a rival exporting country and they outline the … trade reversal pressures, dilute the market power of the processor monopsony and make trade restriction policies irrelevant. …
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How do improvements in information impact market performance? This dissertation examines the effect of an innovative initiative launched by a private company in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, it set up 1700 internet kiosks and 45 warehouses that provide...
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In the debate on the economic effects of labor market regulation much work has focused on minimum wages. A legal minimum wage remains one of the most controversial policy issues. The controversy arises for two main reasons: first, there is no consensus over the economic impacts of the minimum...
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This paper proposes a simple variation of the Allingham and Sandmo (1972) construct and integrates it to a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents. We study an overlapping generations framework i n which agents must initially decide whether to evade taxes or not. In the...
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complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …
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, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …
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Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This … explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income inequality will … initial impact of the boom on inequality disappears. Using panel cointegration methodology for a sample of 90 countries …
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This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to … examine the contribution of each subgroup to overall inequality using their between- and within-subgroup components, both …
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