The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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Integrated assessment of environmental infrastructural and social risks for urban public safety. [PDF]
Liu S.
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Are client ties pre‐entry resources? Performance implications of client tie diversification
Abstract Research Summary This study investigates client tie diversification, where firms enter markets with existing clients. Recognizing the theoretical basis for both positive and negative performance implications, the paper adopts a question‐driven approach and discovers a strong negative correlation between client tie diversification and firm ...
Heejung Byun
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Dynamic transfer learning with co-occurrence-guided multi-source fusion for urban spatio-temporal crime prediction. [PDF]
Cui C, Zheng Z, Du H, Wang W.
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Local Eviction Moratoria and the Spread of COVID‐19
ABSTRACT At different stages during the initial onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, various US states and local municipalities enacted eviction moratoria. One of the main aims of these moratoria was to slow the spread of COVID‐19 infections. We deploy a semiparametric difference‐in‐differences approach with an event study specification to examine whether ...
Julia Hatamyar, Christopher F. Parmeter
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Generating, evaluating, endorsing, and implementing malevolent creativity: a malevolent idea journey. [PDF]
Perchtold-Stefan C +2 more
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A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books
ABSTRACT The Coase Conjecture predicts that a durable‐goods monopolist without commitment will rapidly cut price toward marginal cost. We test this prediction in the electronic‐book market using release‐day prices. To proxy for marginal cost, we use competitive prices of public‐domain electronic books on the same platforms.
Tim Groseclose, Alex Tabarrok
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ABSTRACT Heirs' property, land passed down informally without a clear title, poses significant economic challenges due to the tragedy of the anti‐commons. This study examines the impact of the Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act (UPHPA) on land use patterns in U.S. counties with high concentrations of heirs' property.
Peter Calcagno +2 more
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Urban mobility and crime: causal inference using street closures as an instrumental variable. [PDF]
Vachuska K.
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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