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Does the underground economy hold back financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market
Gobbi, Giorgio; Zizza, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
labour on banks’ entry decisions in the local credit markets, now defined in terms of provinces. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744823
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Heterogeneous mark-ups, growth and endogenous misallocation
Peters, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
with firms’ innovation and entry decisions, which determine the economy’s growth rate. To study this link between … relationship between growth, misallocation and welfare. It stresses the importance of entry. An increase in entry reduces … misallocation by fostering competition. If entry also increases the economy-wide growth rate, static misallocation and growth are …
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The remains of regulation: airlines' profits after liberalization
Marin, Pedro L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
This paper develops an empirical model of entry to analyze the effect of previous regulation on European airlines? post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928653
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Body image, peer effects and food disorders: evidence from a sample of European women
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Excessive preoccupation with self-image has been pinpointed as a factor contributing to the proliferation of food disorders, especially among young women. To provide an economic basis for this argument this paper models how ‘self-image’ and ‘other people’s appearance’ influence...
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Cultivated land conversion in China and the potential for food security and sustainability
Cui, Shunji; Kattumuri, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relationship between cultivated land, environment, and food security in China; and seeks to identity the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746314
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Food security and the targeted public distribution system in India
Kattumuri, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Annual food production is enough to feed the 6.9 billion people in the world today. However, access and distribution of food in order that people do not have to die due to hunger continues to remain elusive even in the 21st century making food security one of the major global challenges. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746454
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Does adaptation to climate change provide food security?: a micro-perspective from Ethiopia
Di Falco, Salvatore; Veronesi, Marcella; Yesuf, Mahmud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We examine the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farmers’ food production. We investigate whether there are differences in the food production functions of farm households that adapted and those that did not adapt. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746462
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Governance from below: a theory of local government with two empirical tests
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local government works. This paper proposes a theory of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744939
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Decentralization and local government in Bolivia : an overview from the bottom up
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745204
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Competition and incentives with motivated agents
Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
A unifying theme in the literature on organizations such as public bureaucracies and private non-profits is the importance of missions, as opposed to profit, as an organizational goal. Such mission-oriented organizations are frequently staffed by motivated agents who subscribe to the mission....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745867