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Excess Capital Flows and the Burden of Inflation in Open Economies

Desai, Mihir A. - 1997

This paper estimates the efficiency consequences of interactions between nominal tax systems and inflation in open … capital movement and influencing domestic and foreign tax receipts, saving, and investment. The efficiency costs of inflation …

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The Effect of Managed Care on Health Care Providers

Baker, Laurence C. - 1997

the number and types of health care providers and their efficiency. By influencing providers, managed care may change the …

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When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets

Parry, Ian W. H. - 1997

This paper employs analytical and numerical general equilibrium models to assess the efficiency impacts of two policies … put the carbon quota at a signficant efficiency disadvantage relative to the carbon tax: the costs of reducing emissions …. Indeed, second-best considerations severely limit the potential of a carbon quota to general overall efficiency gains. Under …

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Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement : An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 1997

In 1990, Wisconsin became the first state in the country to provide vouchers to low income students to attend non-sectarian private schools. In this paper, I use a variety of estimation strategies and samples to estimate the effect of the program on math and reading scores. First, since schools...

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Efficient Rules for Monetary Policy

Ball, Laurence - 1997

inflation variance. It derives several results about the efficiency of alternative rules in a simple macroeconomic model. First …

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Contract Form and Procurement Costs : The Impact of Compulsory Multiple Contractor Laws in Construction

Ashenfelter, Orley - 1997

It is claimed that many regulatory rules enforce inefficiencies in order to achieve the appearance of cost control. We assess the importance of these claims by measuring the effect of New York state's compulsory multiple contractor law on the cost of public construction in New York City....

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Infrastructure Capital and Economic Growth : How Well You Use It May Be More Important Than How Much You Have

Hulten, Charles R. - 1996

and low growth rate economies. Here, more than forty percent of the growth differential is due to the efficiency effect …

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Is "Learning-by-Exporting" Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco

Clerides, Sofronis - 1996

costs are not affected by previous export market participation. So the well-known efficiency gap between exporters and non …

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United States Steel's Acquisition of the Great Northern Ore Properties : Vertical Foreclosure or Efficient Contractual Governance?

Mullin, Joseph C. - 1996

qualitative evidence to support an alternative view that the lease generated a net efficiency gain, resulting in lower steel …

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Corporate Ownership Structures : Private versus Social Optimality

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1996

This paper analyzes the inefficiencies that might arise in the ownership structure chosen at the initial public offering stage. We show that, contrary to what is commonly believed, the desire of initial owners to maximize their proceeds leads them to choices that, although privately optimal, may...

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