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addition, for commodity tax reforms that do not eliminate or proportionally reduce differential taxation, a simple efficiency …
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world. Distance volumes and product characteristics matter. In addition, we find that ports efficiency is an important … determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent … explain variations in port efficiency and find that they are linked to excessive regulation, the prevalence of organized crime …
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Merger control authorities may approve a merger based on a so-called 'efficiency defence'. An important aspect in …
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percent a $13 billion increase in shareholder value. The results suggest that debt relief can generate large efficiency gains …
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investigates whether the Replicating Tax increases efficiency. In the case in which the RTR can be signed as negative, efficiency … is proven to increase. While this result is one of the first derivations of efficiency gains associated with completing a …
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the coercive capacity to enforce such arrangements …
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This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming …
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In this paper we present a simple, theory-based measure of the variations in aggregate economic efficiency associated … those derived by Lucas (1987). It also suggests that the major postwar recessions involved substantial efficiency costs …
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capacity to change their behavior; when transfers go to programs that limit efficiency losses through behavioral requirements …Economists tend to assume that redistributive transfers increase equity but cause a loss in efficiency, the so …-called 'leaky bucket' effect. This paper explores situations where efficiency losses are small or where equity and efficiency might …
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We study price convergence between the two major markets for wholesale electricity in California from their deregulation in April 1998 through November 2000, nearly the end of trading in one market. We would expect profit-maximizing traders to have eliminated persistent price differences between...
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