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This paper proposes the new hypothesis that the loss of innovative efficiency is greater than the loss of productive … efficiency in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOE reform in China has been able to achieve substantial improvements in … SOE productive efficiency by using supervision and incentive mechanisms to establish adequate symmetry between residual …
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What were the distributional consequences of the recent demonetization in India? Can the implementation of demonetization be improved to mitigate its distributional impact? This paper answers these questions using a dynamic contracting model featuring costly state verification and...
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significant (about 10% of total cost) for firms in the upper quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is …
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quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is consistent with the pooling of types under the threat of ratcheting. …
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I study a market where agents with jointly owned heterogeneous goods trade subject to the constraint that each agent ends up with one good. In this market the existence of an efficient, incentive compatible, individually rational and budget balanced mechanism depends on the shares of the agents....
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I define constrained efficient direct mechanisms as those that are not Pareto dominated within the set of direct mechanisms that satisfy some given feasibility constraints – incentive compatibility and other constraints. I show a standard equivalence with maximization of a social welfare...
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The study assesses the how information sharing by means of mobile phones affects banking system efficiency in Africa … banking system efficiency. The following findings are established: (i) mobile phone penetration promotes banking system … efficiency in the 25th quantile and the median of banking system efficiency in low income countries while for middle income …
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