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Location, location, location: Extracting location value from house prices

Kolbe, Jens; Schulz, Rainer; Wersing, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2012

The price for a single-family house depends both on the characteristics of the building and on its location. We propose a novel semiparametric method to extract location values from house prices. After splitting house prices into building and land components, location values are estimated with...

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Strategic delegation improves cartel stability

Han, Martijn A. - 2012

Fershtman and Judd (1987) and Sklivas (1987) show that strategic delegation reduces firm profits in the one-shot Cournot game. Allowing for infinitely repeated interaction, strategic delegation can increase firm profits as it improves cartel stability.

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Short-term managerial contracts and cartels

Han, Martijn A. - 2012

This paper shows how a series of commonly observed short-term CEO employment contracts can improve cartel stability compared to a long-term employment contract. When a manager's short-term appointment is renewed if and only if the firm hits a certain profit target, then (i) defection from...

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State of Literature on Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities

Ács, Zoltán J.; Kallas, Kadri - 2007

Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...

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Testing the significance of calendar effects

Hansen, Peter Reinhard; Lunde, Asger - 2003

When evaluating the significance of calendar effects, such as those associated with Monday and January, it is necessary to control for all possible calendar effects to avoid spurious results. The downside of having to control for a large number of possible calendar effects is that it diminish...

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Debt, liquidity and dynamics

Polemarchakis, H. M.; Rochon, Céline - 2001

Money, which provides liquidity, is distinct from debt. The introduction of a bank that issues money in exchange for debt and pays out its profit as dividend to shareholders modifies the model of overlapping generations. Monetary policy can set, alternatively, the nominal rate of interest or the...

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Annexation or conquest? The economics of empire building

Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - 2002

This paper develops an economic theory of empire building. This theory addresses the choice among three strategies that … Conquest. The theory yields hypotheses that relate the choice among these strategies to such factors as the economic gains from … liquidity constraints on Þnancing imperial armies. This theory also yields hypotheses about the scope of imperial ambitions. The …

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Helping the invisible hand: A theory of endogenous mutual concern

Kolmar, Martin - 2001

This paper develops a theory of endogenous mutual concern. The mutual concern or the morality of economic agents is …

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Endogenously excludable goods

Kolmar, Martin - 2001

In this paper we analyze the optimal interplay between the publie and private enforceement of property rights. In doing so we endogenize the distinction between public and club goods on the one and private and common-pool goods on the other hand. The private enforcement of property rights is...

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A characterization of virtual Bayesian implementation

Serrano, Roberto; Vohra, Rajiv - 2002

We provide a characterization of virtual Bayesian implementation in pure strategies for environments satisfying no-total-indifference. A social choice function in such environments is virtually Bayesian implementable if and only if it satisfies incentive compatibility and a condition we term...

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