We analyze the employment effects of directing job seekers' applications towards establishments likely to recruit, building upon an existing Internet platform developed by the French public employment service. Our two-sided randomization design, with about 1.2 million job seekers and 100,000...

Public transport contracts are occasionally disputed by bureaucrats, labour unions and operators. A significant volume of economic analysis has been conducted on how to minimise problems incurred with contracting, so this article has a slightly different focus on the political aspects. A...

This paper assesses the effects of intermunicipal cooperation on public procurement (PP) performance, based on the Italian experience. We estimate a fixed effect regression model using a sample of 50,905 Italian public works contracts awarded both by municipalities and by municipal unions (MU)...

We describe a scalable, economical solution to the Carbon Dioxide problem. CO2 is captured from the atmosphere by cellulosic plants, and the harvested vegetation is then salted and buried in an engineered dry biolandfill. Plant biomass can be preserved for hundreds to thousands of years by...

This paper is a comprehensive review about the concept of sustainability in modern economics. I review the roots for the introduction of the concept, the milestone of new economics and what transformation this has spurred and contributed in modern economics, on the top of that being the...

The paper argues for three points. The first purpose of the paper is to show that Carl Menger would have rejected Ludwig von Mises’ methodological apriorism. Second, I argue that Carl Menger was a pluralist about the methods of theoretical economics and that Mises was rather less of a...

There are several ways that firms collaborate while also competing. One firm provides a crucial capability or ingredient to another which sells a competing end-market product. For instance, LG sells smartphones and supplies OLED displays for Google’s smartphones. Like it happens here, the...

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to examine extant evidence and escalate conversation towards building a critical mass in literature on equivalent unit of production, unit cost function, continuous process costing and fair pricing in the pharmaceutical industry. The main aim is...

We study the classical reallocation problem (Shapley and Scarf, 1974) and introduce a large class of exchange rules, each of which is strategy-proof, efficient, and individually rational on the domain of single-peaked preferences. These rules are generalizations of Gale’s top trading cycles:...