![]() ![]() Although private firms seem more productive than SOEs, the government selectively privatized (or liquidated) non-performing SOEs. Privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) was a major economic reform during China's rapid growth, but its true impact remains controversial. ![]() We study how ownership affects productivity. ![]() " Privatization and Productivity in China ," with Yuyu Chen, Masayuki Sawada, and Mo Xiao, the RAND Journal of Economics, 52:4 (Winter 2021), 884–916. Simulations suggest some mergers could have prolonged the vitamin C cartel, but others could have further destabilized it, because both the direction and magnitude of coordinated effects depend not only on the number of firms but also on their cost asymmetry. We use data and direct evidence from American courts and European agencies to show the collusive incentive of the short-lived vitamin C cartel was likely to be negative when it actually collapsed in 1995, whereas the incentives of the long-lived cartels (vitamins A and E, and beta carotene) were unambiguously positive until the prosecution in 1999. Do mergers help or hinder collusion? This paper studies the stability of the vitamin cartels in the 1990s and presents a repeated-games approach to quantify "coordinated effects" of a merger. " Measuring the Incentive to Collude : The Vitamin Cartels, 1990–99," with Takuo Sugaya, the Review of Economic Studies, 89:3 (May 2022), 1460–1494. ![]()
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![]() Clymer died in 2001 at the age of 95 in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Her son, Adam Clymer, was a journalist with The New York Times. In 1980 she was awarded the Rip Van Winkle award by the School Library Media Specialists of Southeastern New York for outstanding contributions to children's literature. Through much of her life she was a resident of Katonah, New York and an active member of the nearby Unitarian Universalist fellowship. Ĭlymer was born in New York City, the daughter of Russian immigrants. Between the years of 19 she published 58 books, including The Tiny Little House, My Brother Stevie, and Hamburgers–and Ice Cream for Dessert. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1928 with a degree in English. Eleanor Clymer (née Lowenton Janu– March 31, 2001), was an American children's author, best known for The Trolley Car Family (1947). 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Originally published at on April 23, 2011 Posted April 29th, 2011 by Jorge Solis & filed under Graphic Novels. “GRIMM FAIRY TALES: DREAM EATER SAGA” #0 (Comic Review) ![]() ![]() ![]() Through a series of dramatic vignettes, Doctorow reveals the family lives of many of these marchers, creating background and stimulating the reader's interest in the characters' futures. ![]() Doctorow, in his absorbing novel of this march, focuses on all the marchers-their varied interests, conflicts, fears, and goals-instead of focusing on battles and army maneuvers, creating a powerful and panoramic vision of how civilians, as well as soldiers, responded to the devastation of this terrible war. It is an immense organism, this army, with a small brain."Īs the huge Union Army of General William Tecumseh Sherman burned its way from Atlanta to the Carolinas in 1864 - 1865, it was accompanied by a motley group of freed slaves, entrepreneurs, the dispossessed wives and children of landowners, and even a few turncoats, all of whom saw this army on the march as their protection from the hostile unknown. It sends out as antennae its men on horses. ![]() It is tubular in its being and tentacled to the roads and bridges over which it travels. "Imagine a great segmented body moving in contractions and dilations at a rate of twelve or fifteen miles a day, a creature of a hundred thousand feet. 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Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining-Back cover. ![]() About the Book In the wake of a fever that decimated the earths population-killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant-the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. ![]() |