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‘Women stay behind and grow the food’: Agricultural productivity and the interstices of petty commodity production and reproductive labour in Tanzania

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by the work of Carmen Diana Deere, this paper examines how an analysis of the work of rural production, even when gendered, is compromised if it does not incorporate reproductive labour. The paper presents estimates of the gender yield gap in agricultural crop productivity in Tanzania, along with the statistical causes of the gender ...
A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhi
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Literature Review on Auction Mechanisms: Insights From the Last Decade and Future Directions

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study reports the results of a systematic literature review on auctions mechanism. Auctions are a very popular practice employed in many fields but does not exist a research that investigates the use of auctions under a cross‐disciplinary approach. This work is focused on analyzing which are the areas where auctions are mostly adopted and
Alberto Michele Felicetti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms for Belief Elicitation Without Ground Truth

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the challenge of eliciting truthful information from multiple individuals when such information cannot be verified, a problem known as “information elicitation without verification.” This article reviews over 25 mechanisms designed to incentivize truth‐telling in such scenarios and their effectiveness in empirical ...
Niklas Valentin Lehmann
wiley   +1 more source

Upward Pricing Pressure in Mergers Where Prices Are Determined Through Joint Bargaining

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop an upward pricing pressure metric for evaluating mergers when prices are negotiated through bilateral bargaining. Our framework is based on deriving the marginal cost reduction required to just offset a price increase due to a horizontal merger in a Nash‐in‐Nash bargaining equilibrium assuming suppliers negotiate with buyers using ...
Keith Brand, Christopher V. Lau
wiley   +1 more source

Competition With Limited Attention to Quality Differences

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I analyze the implication of consumers' limited attention to quality differences on market outcomes and welfare. I model this limited attention with a perception threshold, that is, consumers only perceive quality differences between goods that exceed their perception threshold.
Stefanie Y. Schmitt
wiley   +1 more source

Virtuous innovation or obfuscation? Product innovation in the variable annuities market

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Variable Annuities, which comprise a substantial proportion of the retirement products sold by insurance companies, have become increasingly complex over the past decades. We investigate the drivers of the product trends. We distinguish “virtuous” innovations that expand upon the existing set of consumption paths in retirement from ...
Xiaochen Jing   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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