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CASEpaper

Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts

Hyun Bang Shin

The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise...Read more...

1 December 2011

Economics of Industry Paper

'Inferring Conduct under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry.'

Alberto Salvo

This paper demonstrates that when an industry faces potential entry and this threat of entry constrains pre-entry prices, cost and conduct are not identified from the comparative statics of equilibrium. In such a setting...Read more...

October 2004

Theoretical Economics Paper

Firm-Specific Training

Leonardo Felli and Christopher Harris

This paper introduces two complementary models of firm-specific training: an informational model and a productivity-enhancement model. In both models, market provision of firm-specific training is inefficient. However, t...Read more...

April 2004

DARP Paper

Sticks and Carrots, (published in The Crisis in Tax Administration, Aaron, H. J. and Slemrod, J. (eds.) The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, (2004) 230-275).

Frank A Cowell

The tax-payer-as-gambler (TAG) model of tax non-compliance is the classic vehicle for providing some simple insights. Under fairly general conditions this model supports the following four propositions: (1) if the rate o...Read more...

March 2003

Theoretical Economics Paper

Law Enforcement under Incomplete Law: Theory and Evidence from Financial Market Regulation

Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu

This paper studies the design of law-making and law enforcement institutions based on the premise that law is inherently incomplete. Under incomplete law, law enforcement by courts may suffer from deterrence failure, def...Read more...

December 2002