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We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies underinvestment. That inefficiency is mitigated by a PTA, because the agreement...
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We develop a new framework to study the welfare consequences of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) under global sourcing, incomplete contracts and endogenous matching. We uncover several new channels through which PTAs affect global welfare. There are effects stemmingfrom intensive margin...
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Various disciplines increasingly are discovering the power of learning. However, the potential and the complexities of learning theory in decision making contexts have so far been neglected by scholarship in Law and Economics as well as Behavioral Law and Economics: either learning is...
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This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....
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This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325260
-typical forms of organization and their corresponding key coordination mechanism: market/price, hierarchy/authority, and community …
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heterogeneity and income inequality is negatively correlated with market depth. …
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We study the effects of improvements in market transparency on eBay on seller exit and continuing sellers' behavior. An … improvement in market transparency by reducing strategic bias in buyer ratings led to a significant increase in buyer valuation … latter because of lower cost. Increasing market transparency improves on market outcomes …
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This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability and employment. A brief survey of previous merger waves and an analysis of the recent one give support to the hypothesis that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves....
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This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276885