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A diagrammatic exposition of the logic of collection action
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Center for Study of Public Choice Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1976-06)
Incentive Contracting versus Ownership Reforms: Evidence from China's Township and Village Enterprises
(2000-11-01)
We use a unique data set to study the implications of introducing managerial incentives and, in addition to incentives, better defined ownership for a firm's financial performance. The data set traces the ten-year history ...
Optional time-of-use pricing can be pareto superior or pareto inferior
(Elsevier, 1990-08)
Many public utilities offer a choice between time-of-use and flat rates. Two points are established: (1) optional TOU (time-of-use) schedules exist that Pareto dominate both mandatory flat and mandatory TOU rates; but, (2) ...
Robbing Peter to pay Peter: The economics of local public residency requirements
(Elsevier, 1988-05)
On the effect of fiscal zoning on land and housing values
(Elsevier, 1976-01)
The note is a comment on and extension of "The Effect of Zoning on Land Value," by J. C. Ohls, R. C. Weisberg, and M. J. White. It is suggested that some of the results of that paper are very sensitive to the way in which ...
The influence of actual and unrequited interventions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-04)
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports ...
Investment, Credit Rationing and the Soft Budget Constraint: Evidence from Czech Panel Data
(2001-02-01)
Strategic restructuring of firms through investment is key to a transition from plan to market. Using data on industrial firms in the Czech Republic during 1992-98, we find that (a) foreign owned companies invest the most ...