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Brandt, Loren; Hosios, Arthur J. - 1998

A hedonic analysis of principal-agent employment contracts is developed in which workers and employers exchange labor services and contractual payment patterns and is applied to contract data from a household-level survey in rural China in 1935. The results indicate that credit market...

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Magna Carta

Desierto, Desiree; Hall, Jacob; Koyama, Mark - 2023

Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...

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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25

Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce : Evidence from China

Liu, Bo - 2020

The paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of divorce in China with the data from The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The empirical results show that parental divorce increases the odd ratio of children's divorce significantly by 104.12% in complementary...

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From Boston to Chinese parallel to deferred acceptance : theory and experiments on a family of school choice mechanisms

Chen, Yan; Kesten, Onur - 2013

, which is more stable than Boston, efficiency comparisons vary across environments. …

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Productive Versus Innovative Inefficiency in China's State Enterprises

Wu, Yanbing - 2015

This paper proposes the new hypothesis that the loss of innovative efficiency is greater than the loss of productive … efficiency in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOE reform in China has been able to achieve substantial improvements in … SOE productive efficiency by using supervision and incentive mechanisms to establish adequate symmetry between residual …

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Hukou system reform and unification of rural-urban social welfare

Cai, Fang - In: China & world economy 19 (2011) 3, pp. 33-48

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On the fundamentals of a successful reform for national prosperity : an economic analysis based on the practice of China's reform

Chen, Xudong; Tian, Guoqiang; Xia, Jijun - In: Frontiers of economics in China : selected publications … 8 (2013) 4, pp. 490-515

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Trends and cycles in China's macroeconomy

Chang, Chun; Chen, Kaiji; Waggoner, Daniel F.; Zha, Tao - 2015

We make four contributions in this paper. First, we provide a core of macroeconomic time series usable for systematic research on China. Second, we document, through various empirical methods, the robust findings about striking patterns of trend and cycle. Third, we build a theoretical model...

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Trends and cycles in China's macroeconomy

Chang, Chun; Chen, Kaiji; Waggoner, Daniel F.; Zha, Tao - 2018

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