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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a simple model, we show that it may be efficient to subsidize innovative firms in their … early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …-benevolent politicians may not choose efficient policies. Real-world examples indicate that politicians tend to concentrate on externalities …
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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider...
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. We identify an important asymmetry between positive and negative externalities and show that centralization may not be … efficient in economies with positive externalities even when regions are identical and centralization does not entail a loss of … accountability. We also show that decentralization can only Pareto dominate centralization in economies with negative externalities. …
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We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each … acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the … stages of development witness underenrollment in higher education, while highly developed economies experience overenrollment. …
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economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the … externalities ; urban wage premium …
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …. -- Externalities ; human capital ; multiple equilibria …
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selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents - an agent's utility upon accepting a … when the size of the externalities is arbitrarily small. Our result highlights the degree of control a principal has over …
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In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
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We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities … externalities can help explain the dynamic process of offshoring, where the most productive firms offshore first and the others …
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