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The first stock exchanges involved government. The modern stock exchange is strangely devoid of government presence, at least in terms of the decision to halt trading. Meanwhile, over two-hundred billion dollars trades each day on the New York Stock Exchange, one of thirteen recognized domestic...
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platform must strike a balance between optimizing her own revenues and guaranteeing fairness to her (repeat) buyers and (b) the … platform is concerned with both the proportional fairness and efficiency of the allocation, and propose a hybrid algorithm … which achieves a 0:3 bi-criteria guarantee against fairness and efficiency. Finally, we build a sequence of datasets, one …
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possible. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for fairness under different market conditions on orders for … constrained RSD mechanisms. Our results show that exchanges relying on the current serialization technology cannot ensure fairness …, including exchanges using `speed bumps.' We find that specific forms of constrained RSD ensure fairness under certain …
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This paper studies the effects of asymmetries in re-election probabilities across parties on public policy and their subsequent propagation to the economy. The struggle between groups that disagree on targeted public spending (e.g., pork) results in governments being endogenously short-sighted:...
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Why does natural resource wealth prolong incumbency? Using evidence from parliamentary elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran, I show that natural resource revenues boost incumbent reelection rates because this revenue is used to provide public or private goods to constituents, incentivizing...
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German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …
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This paper takes stock of the economic performance of resource rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past forty years. While those countries have maintained high levels of income per capita, they have performed poorly when going beyond the assessment based on...
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This paper takes stock of the economic performance of resource rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past forty years. While those countries have maintained high levels of income per capita, they have performed poorly when going beyond the assessment based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090950