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Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons … shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find … that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers, despite trivial prices for water extraction, use roughly the socially …
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This paper shows that the capitalization of local amenities is effectively priced into land via a two-part pricing formula: a “ticket” price paid regardless of the amount of housing service consumed and a “slope” price paid per unit of services. We first show theoretically how tickets...
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A central question concerning the economic motivation for the adoption of workers' compensation is the extent to which workers had access to their desired levels of private accident insurance around the turn of the century. If insurance were rationed then workers' primary option would have been...
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by Dreze. This is why recent authors in disequilibrium analysis study the stochastic rationing mechanism. Douglas Gale … proved the existence of the equilibrium with stochastic rationing mechanism. However, Gale 's rationing mechanism requires an …. Green examined a rationing scheme which depends only on the individual effective demand and the aggregate signals. However …
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Markets that involve customers waiting for services or goods in queues whose length they cannot observe are studied. In these markets suppliers truncate queues that become so long that they jeopardize the supplier's future relations with the customer. The length of the queue and the probability...
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This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the … inefficient rationing by examining whether the reservation wages of employed unskilled workers in states where the 1990 …
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Stochastic rationing when the market does not clear draws attention because both Dreze (1975) and Benassy (1975 …. His stochastic rationing depends on all the individual effective demands. It is too vague to characterize a rationing … (1978) to characterizing the rationing scheme as the individual effective demand times the rationing number which is a …
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This paper outlines the salient characteristics of competing models of economic regulation and controls. It then examines the evolution of the American sugar program from 1934 to 1987 in the light of these models. While lobbying and other features of traditional models were clearly important,...
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When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...
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Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and...
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