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A Scale-out Blockchain for Value Transfer with Spontaneous Sharding

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Bitcoin, as well as many of its successors, require the whole transaction record to be reliably acquired by all nodes to prevent double-spending. Recently, many blockchains have been proposed to achieve scale-out throughput by letting nodes only acquire a ...

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To Buy or Not to Buy: Consumer Constraints in the Housing Market

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We use a strategic household survey to study the sensitivity of intended homeownership decisions to financing constraints. We find that the average stated likelihood of buying a home is strongly sensitive to the size of the required down payment, which we ...

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Three Economic Perspectives on Post - 2012 Global Climate Policy

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Transfer Design and Incentives for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Developing Countries

Philippe Thalmann, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, Ronal Gainza Carmenates

Transfers would play a key role in the implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in developing countries. In this paper, we analyze the desirable features of such transfers - i.e., individually rational, budget-balanced, anti-ince ...

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Three essays on university-industry technology transfer and the economics of science

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In the first chapter of this thesis, coauthored with Patrick Gaulé, we reexamine the widely held belief, known as the "European Paradox", that while European academic institutions are good at producing academic research outputs, they lag behind US academic ...

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The Fiscal Politics of Big Governments: Do Coalitions Matter?

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This paper uses a closed voting rule to explain how gradual changes in the socio-economic structure of developed societies shift political coalitions and lead to rapid expansions of transfer programs. Equilibria in a lifecycle economy with three homogeneou ...

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A Payment Scheme for Broadcast Multimedia Streams

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Streaming multimedia data on the Internet is developing as a mainstream technology, which attracts many users by providing a new and convenient form of access to online multimedia information. While its strong business potential is obvious, many problems r ...

2001

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