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E-SpaniaInquiries and notarial documents allow us to observe how the border lines, modified several times between the 13th and 15th centuries in Roussillon and Cerdanya, were defined, understood and experienced by the populations.
Claude Denjean
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Elimination of Competitors: Some Economics of Payment Card Associations [PDF]
This paper analyzes platforms and rejections in two-sided markets with network externalities, using the specific context of a payment card association. We study the cooperative antitrust determination of the interchange fee by member banks.
Koki Arai
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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THE SECRET OF VENETIAN SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN FINANCIAL MARKETS [PDF]
The commercial success of Venice hinged on her merchants¿ ability to do business with borrowed money. However, to raise other people¿s capital, merchants needed to commit not to embezzle the capital received. Despite this commitment problem, the evidence
Yadira González de Lara
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steel research international, EarlyView.Ensemble models are adopted to estimate the sterile content of scraps arriving to the scrap yard. Feed‐forward neural networks are exploited to estimate steel composition and temperature after Ladle furnace. The models are validated on data from two steelworks very satisfactory results and are inherently transferable to other steelworks, as they are ...
Valentina Colla +7 more
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Network externalities: the catch-22 of retail payments innovations [PDF]
An investigation of one of the reasons why electronic payments have not yet supplanted cash and checks in retail transactions: Consumers willingness to use an innovation depends on the number of merchants who have already adopted it, and merchants ...
James B. Thomson, William P. Osterberg
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The Export and Financial Effects of Immigrant Team Composition in International New Ventures
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Immigrant‐owned international new ventures (INVs) often partner with non‐immigrant entrepreneurs as co‐owners. Their mixed immigrant‐nonimmigrant teams could engender varied perspectives. But it is unclear whether such cognitive diversity improves their international strategy and performance.
Horatio M. Morgan, Sui Sui
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A Study of the Interrelated Bilateral Transactions in Credit Card Networks [PDF]
Over the last decade, consumers have tripled their use of credit cards as more merchants have increased their acceptance of them. This increase suggests that incentives in today's marketplace favor greater credit card use by consumers and acceptance by ...
Alpa Shah, Sujit Chakravorti
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