Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a decentralized network of academic institutions, research centers, and economists who contribute and share their research output. RePEc is a collaborative initiative that provides access to an open-access database of over 700,000 scholarly business and economic working papers, 1,000,000 journal articles, 4,000 software items, 27,000 downloadable books, and 27,500 book chapters. Most publications are available in full text; however, access to some journal articles requires an institutional subscription. EconPapers is the search interface for RePEc