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Occupational Licensure : From Barbers to Accountants and Physicians, Influences on Professional Practice in the United States

Alvarez, Ph.D., Esq., Ariel - 2013

This paper examines mandatory occupational licensure in several professions from barbers, cosmetologists, radiologic technicians, CPAs, mid-level healthcare providers, and physicians. Mandatory licensure is cited as a mechanism for serving the public interest by assuring professionals possess...

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Towards Effective U.S. Broadband Policies

Wallsten, Scott - 2013

Although recent international broadband penetration rankings have Congress concerned about U.S. broadband policy, these statistics should not play a large role in forming U.S. broadband policy, as they fail to take into account geographic factors, demographic factors and consumer preferences...

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Procurement and Infrastructure Costs

Liscow, Zachary; Nober, Will; Slattery, Cailin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state … able to create a new dataset of procurement rules and practices across the U.S. and understand what actors on the ground …

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Experience goods and provision of quality

Kultti, Klaus - 2017

Delacroix and Shi (Pricing and signaling with frictions, Journal of Economics Theory 2013) study a model featuring buyers with unit demands and sellers with unit supplies. The sellers may produce a high- or a low-quality good. The buyers get a signal about quality but the signalling technology...

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On the manipulability of efficient exchange rules

Tierney, Ryan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 1, pp. 15-38

We identify a large subdomain, D, of quasilinear economies on which any efficient exchange rule will be generically (in the Baire sense) manipulable. For generic economies outside of D, we find rules that are locally non-manipulable. The interior of the set D consists of all economies in which...

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Long-term contracting in a changing world

Pavan, Alessandro - 2007

I study the properties of optimal long-term contracts in an environment in which the agent's type evolves stochastically over time. The model stylizes a buyer-seller relationship but the results apply quite naturally to many contractual situations including regulation and optimal...

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Mechanism Reform : An Application to Child Welfare

Baron, E. Jason; Lombardo, Richard; Ryan, Joseph P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In many market-design applications, a new mechanism is introduced to reform an existing institution. Compared to the design of a mechanism in isolation, the presence of a status-quo system introduces both challenges and opportunities for the designer. We study this problem in the context of...

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Financial Performance Trends of United States Hockey Inc : A Resource-Dependency Approach

Omondi-Ochieng, Peter - 2019

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the 2009 to 2016 financial performance of the US Hockey Inc., using financial effectiveness indicators and financial efficiency ratios.Design/methodology/approach – With the assistance of financial trend analysis, archival data were used to...

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Optimal selection of energy efficiency measures for energy sustainability of existing buildings

Tan, Barış; Yavus, Yahya; Otay, Emre N.; Çamlıbel, Emre - In: Computers & operations research : and their … 66 (2016), pp. 258-271

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Multiple-knapsack optimization in land conservation : results from the first cost-effective conservation program in the United States

Messer, Kent D.; Kecinski, Maik; Tang, Xing; Hirsch, … - In: Land economics : applied research on environmental resources 92 (2016) 1, pp. 117-130

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