Browsing College of Arts and Science 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 ...
    • 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 ...