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We develop a model to explain two-way migration of high-skilled individuals between countries that are similar in their economic characteristics. High-skilled migration results from the combination of workers whose abilities are private knowledge, and a production technology that gives...
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adequate response to markets without prices. Modern antitrust law is firmly grounded in neoclassical economics — price theory …. Steeped in price theory, preeminent antitrust theorists have unsurprisingly urged that without prices there can be no markets …
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I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of …
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A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a...
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, an increase in competition that makes adaptation more important can favor centralization over decentralization …
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We investigate under which conditions price competition in a market with matching frictions leads to sorting of buyers and sellers. Positive assortative matching obtains only if there is a high enough degree of complementarity between buyer and seller types. The relevant condition is...
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2000, Delmastro 2002, Acemoglu et al. 2007). We find decentralization dominates for products with short lifecycles but in …, decentralization outperforms centralization in the initial phase of the product lifecycle, centralization is superior in the … intermediate phase, and decentralization outperforms again at the final phase. Thus organizational change also appears to be a …
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A popular argument about economic policy under uncertainty states that decentralisation offers the possibility to learn from local or regional policy experiments. We argue that such learning processes are not trivial and do not occur frictionlessly: Voters have an inherent tendency to retain a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050154
(centralization) or two (decentralization) regulatory authorities, when the regulator(s) can be partially captured by industry. Under …
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and benefits of decentralization, in relation to factors such as the levels of human and social capital, the degree of …
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