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allocation and pricing of space and an efficient allocation of incentives across stores. Certain stores generate externalities by …This Paper demonstrates that mall store contracts are written to internalize externalities through both an efficient …: (i) efficiently price the net externality of each store, and (ii) align the incentives to induce optimal effort by the …
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The Fair Labour Standards Act (FLSA), impose restriction on working hours and the type of jobs held by minors at ages below 18. Hours worked in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) sample increased monotonically from 2.5 for the 14-year-olds to 16.2 for the 18-year-olds, and among...
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This paper analyses the determinants of academic performance of first-year undergraduate students in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. We focus on a few core subjects which differ in their degree of mathematical complexity. Type of school, specialization...
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The paper develops a two-country endogenous growth model to investigate possible causes for the existence and persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations, even though these countries show a common technology, constant returns to scale and perfect international capital...
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We study the effects of allocative and informational externalities in (multi-object) auctions and related mechanisms …. Such externalities naturally arise in models that embed auctions in larger economic contexts. In particular, they appear … driving force behind many new, specific phenomena with allocative externalities: even in complete information settings …
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This Paper considers the efficiency and convergence properties of dynamic processes of social and economic interactions, such as exchange economies, multilateral negotiations, merger and divestiture transactions, or legislative bargaining. The key general feature of the economy is that agents...
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Empirical studies provide evidence of positive spillovers from multinational firms to upstream suppliers coupled with negative spillovers to firms in the same industry. This paper shows that these empirical regularities can be rationalized in a model with incompatibilities between foreign and...
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This paper views authority as the right to undertake decisions that impose externalities on other members of the …
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head. Demand externalities among imperfectly competitive firms do not in general provide a theoretical basis for these …
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This paper considers a model of infectious disease, such as swine flu, in which privately costly treatment confers immunity on recovered individuals. It is shown that under decentralized decision making, infected individuals ignore the externality that their treatment has on susceptible...
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