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Daily Archive for November 7th, 2011

Both from the proprietors at Marginal Revolution: 1. Here is Alex Tabarrok: “What astounds me is not that someone could amass $35,000 in student loans pursuing a dream of puppetry, everyone has their dreams and I do not fault Joe for his. What astounds me is that Richard Kim, the executive editor of The Nation […]

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Here is an interesting new paper which demonstrates that lobbying at both the extensive and intensive margins is almost exclusively determined by firm size. …  Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time. … we […]

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One of my favorite essay questions assigned to students in my environmental economics class requires them to think about how government ownership and management of National Parks differs from alternative arrangements. I do not wish to write my version of the essay here. I do want to make a few observations. First, you would be […]

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