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This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of … compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most … perfect competition, the resulting efficiency loss can be larger than that imposed by a single firm or principal, who distorts …
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complements this pattern is reinforced while under competition in substitutes the principals trade off the benefits of …
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We study competition in price-quality menus when consumers privately know their valuation for quality (type), and are … intensity, from perfect competition to monopoly. …
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team’s performance and therefore on their colleagues’ productivity. We study...
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Despite substantial regional expenditures at both national and community level, European regional policies do not appear to deliver. The evidence suggests that neither efficiency gains nor reduced regional inequalities are attained. If there is any positive impact at all, then it is at the most...
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redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main …
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The main purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the impact of the introduction of an alternative minimum tax (AMT) in Belgium with a focus on the impact on various distortions margins. In the process, we provide an up-to date account of the state of effective corporate taxation in...
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Evidence on the price elasticity of private donations to charities and on the crowding out effect of donations by government grants suggests that a redirection of government funds from tax incentives for giving towards direct grants could increase total charity funding. This raises the question...
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tax competition between national governments to influence the location of manufacturing activity. Labour is imperfectly … lower trade costs. We show that either type of integration may result in a decrease in the intensity of tax competition, and …
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This paper analyses tax competition between two countries of unequal size trying to attract a foreign-owned monopolist …
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