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Production Efficiency and Discriminatory Hiring Practices in the National Hockey League: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Kahane, Leo - In: Review of Industrial Organization 27 (2005) 1, pp. 47-71

This paper studies the production process in the National Hockey League (NHL) and attempts to identify the sources of production inefficiency, including potential inefficiencies associated with preferences for, or against French-Canadians. Employing the method of stochastic frontier estimation,...

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Political Accountability and Fiscal Federalism

Gupta, Santanu - In: International Tax and Public Finance 8 (2001) 3, pp. 263-280

In a model with democratic institutions and three jurisdictions, we study the allocation and welfare in a one-level (unitary) and a two-level (federal) government, given that the central government finds it optimal to discriminate in favor of two jurisdictions and against the third. Favored...

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Gender pay gap

Chichilnisky, Graciela - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 2, pp. 157-174

The article explains the origins of the gender pay gap as a Nash equilibrium of a game with incomplete information about women's work at home and in the marketplace based on the earlier results of Chichilnisky (2005, 2008a, 2008b). Expectations about women's lower market wages leads to the over...

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Discrimination and Nepotism: The Efficiency of the Anonymity Rule

Fershtman, Chaim; Gneezy, Uri; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

distinction between the different types of discrimination is important in evaluating the effectiveness and the efficiency …The Paper considers two categories of discrimination: ‘discrimination against’ and ‘discrimination in favour’, which … Becker coins ‘nepotism’. The Paper develops an experimental test to distinguish between these two types of discrimination …

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On fintech and financial inclusion

Philippon, Thomas - 2019

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A free and fair economy : a game of justice and inclusion

Demeze-Jouatsa, Ghislain H.; Pongou, Roland; Tondji, … - 2021

efficiency. We generalize our findings to economies with social justice and inclusion, implemented in the form of progressive …

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Promise (Un)kept? Fintech and Financial Inclusion

Cevik, Serhan - 2024

The emergence of financial technologies—fintech—has become an engine of change, promising to expand access to financial services and give a boost to financial inclusion. The ownership of accounts in formal financial institutions increased from 51 percent of the world’s adult population in...

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Efficiency effects of cross-border medical demand

Lukas, Daniel - 2009

There is a growing interest in cross-border medical care and its comparative advantages. In addition, medical care can be defined as a local assurance good. Little research is being carried out in this field. This paper discusses the individual considerations for medical treatment offered at...

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The lemon market of insolvency proceedings in Spain in the new normal: Information, asymmetry, and adverse selection problems

Olabarrieta, Unai; San-Jose, Leire; Araujo, Andrés - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-16

framework for corporate insolvency resolution are constantly changing to enhance the efficiency of such mechanisms. This pursuit … contrasts with the lack of specific efficiency data available to both legislators and researchers, there are no solid statistics … to investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of its efficiency, which makes it impossible in practice to …

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The Future of Banking in CESEE after the Financial Crisis

Gnan, Ernest; Simor, Andras; Schepers, Manfred; Eller, … - 2011

On 23 June 2010, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank and SUERF jointly organised a conference on "The Future of Banking in CESEE after the Financial Crisis", incorporating the SUERF Annual Lecture, delivered by Manfred Schepers, Vice President, Finance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and...

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