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  • Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India
    Kranton, Rachel; Swamy, Anand V. (American Economic Review, 2008)
    Trade and export, it is argued, spur economic growth. This paper studies the microeconomics of exporting. We build a heuristic model of transactions between exporters and producers and relate it to East India Company (EIC) ...
  • Economics and Identity*
    Akerlof, George A.; Kranton, Rachel (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000)
    This paper considers how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes. We incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior. In the utility function we propose, identity ...
  • Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education.
    Akerlof, George A.; Kranton, Rachel (American Economic Association, 2002)
    The article presents a sociological view of education with economic analysis. With the focus on identity and schools, the article, gives a new perspective on the allocation of resources in education. The framework suggested ...
  • Networks versus vertical integration.
    Kranton, Rachel; Minehart, Deborah F. (RAND Corporation, 2000)
    We construct a theory to compare vertically integrated firms to networks of manufacturers and suppliers. Vertically integrated firms make their own specialized inputs. In networks, manufacturers procure specialized inputs ...
  • Public goods in networks
    Bramoulle, Yann; Kranton, Rachel (Elsevier, 2007)
    This paper considers incentives to provide goods that are non-excludable along social or geographic links. We find, first, that networks can lead to specialization in public good provision. In every social network there ...
  • Reciprocal Exchange: A Self-Sustaining System.
    Kranton, Rachel (American Economic Review, 1996)
    Reciprocal exchange, or gift exchange, remains a widespread means of obtaining goods and services. This paper examines the persistence of reciprocal exchange by formalizing the interaction between self-enforcing exchange ...
  • A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks.
    Kranton, Rachel; Minehart, Deborah F. (American Economic Review, 2001)
    This paper introduces a new model of exchange: networks, rather thar\ markets, of buyers and sellers, it begins with the empirically motivated premise that a buyer and seller must have a relationship, a "link." to e.xchange ...