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Technological Stagnation, Tenurial Laws and Adverse Selection

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  • Basu, Kaushik, "undated". "Technological Stagnation, Tenurial Laws and Adverse Selection," WIDER Working Papers 295464, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.295464
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    3. Basu, Kaushik & Emerson, Patrick M, 2000. "The Economics of Tenancy Rent Control," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 110(466), pages 939-962, October.
    4. Tarp, Finn, 2003. "Udviklingsbistanden i perspektiv," Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift, Nationaløkonomisk Forening, vol. 2003(1), pages 164-186.
    5. Eric Edmonds, 2007. "Institutional Influences on Human Capital Accumulation: Micro Evidence from Children Vulnerable to Bondage," Working Papers id:1109, eSocialSciences.
    6. Jean-Louis ARCAND & Mbolatiana DE MONTALEMBERT RAMBONILAZA, 1999. "Is Adverse Selection Relevant? Spence-Mirlees Meets the Tunisian Peasant," Working Papers 199923, CERDI.
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    9. Basu, Kaushik & Emerson, Patrick, 1998. "The economic and law of rent control," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1968, The World Bank.

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