Browsing by Subject "efficiency"

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    • Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling 
      Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      Firms communicate product quality attributes to consumers through a variety of channels, such as pricing, advertising, releases of research reports and test results, or warranties and returns policies. The conceptualization ...
    • Good for You, Bad for Us 
      Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Rossi, Jim (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
      This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
    • Optimim Tariffs and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter 
      Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2009)
      This paper identifies a new terms-of-trade externality that is exercised through tariff setting. A North-South model of international trade is introduced in which the number of countries in each region can be varied. As ...
    • Optimum Tariffs and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter 
      Bloch, Francis; Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      This paper presents a North-South model of international trade in which (i) there is a relatively small number of countries in the North and (ii) the North is relatively abundant in capital while the South is relatively ...
    • Pampered Bureaucracy and Trade Liberalization 
      Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2010)
      This paper shows how a nation's elite maintain ownership of their wealth by creating a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part of an otherwise entrepreneurial middle class from more productive manufacturing ...
    • The Economics of Network Flows 
      Hong, Sunghoon (2012-04-17)
      Department: Economics
      My research on the economics of network flows is motivated by (i) the possibility of bads being carried through networks, together with goods, (ii) the analysis of strategic behavior of agents in networks, and (iii) the ...