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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off … standards improve, putting pressure on land prices. This can be offset by relaxing the very stringent restrictions on the use of … agricultural land for building. For migrants to better integrate in the cities where they work, their access and that of their …
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This paper explores the dynamics of nation-building policies and the conditions under which a state can promote a shared national identity on its territory. A forward-looking central government that internalizes identity dynamics shapes them by choosing the level of state centralization....
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. Under monopoly this tax unambiguously exceeds the marginal damage. Furthermore, the analysis provides a further reason why …
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We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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On many Native American reservations, lack of energy access reduces economic, health, and educational opportunities. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported in 2000 that 14% of households on Native American reservations had no access to electricity, compared to 1.4% nationally....
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exploring complex problems at the intersection of climate change, land use, and water, this article contends that environmental … integrate water quality and conservation into land use planning and regulation; watershed planning and management; and local …
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good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass …
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market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …
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monopoly that sells access to independent downstream firms. Our results reconciliate a set of seemingly contradictory findings … of the literature. We show that unless the monopoly's subsidiary is implausible more efficient than the independent firms … subsidiary's size and the intensity of economies of scope but if the monopoly optimally excludes rivals then intensity of …
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