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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...

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All-Pay Auctions: Implementation and Optimality

Jönsson, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes how all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes can be used to provide effort incentives. We show that wide classes of effort distributions can be implemented as equilibrium outcomes of such games. We also ask how all-pay auctions have to be structured so as to induce high...

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On the Selection of Arbitrators

de Clippel, Geoffroy; Eliaz, Kfir; Knight, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

. We take an implementation-theoretic approach and provide theoretical, empirical and experimental analyses of this problem …

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Budgeting versus implementing fiscal policy in the EU

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo; Wierts, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

implementation in the EU are determined. We find that (1) implemented budgetary adjustment falls systematically short of planned … by the implementation errors, (3) there is a limited role for "traditional" political variables, (4) stock … their implementation benefit from stronger national fiscal institutions. We emphasise also the importance of credible plans …

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Regulation Games

Gilbert, Richard; Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

We examine regulation as a repeated game between a regulator and a utility facing a Markovian sequence of demands. Sunk capital would be expropriated by a regulator concerned only with the short-run interests of consumers. There exist rate of return regulatory policies supporting efficient...

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Price Stability as a Nash Equilibrium in Monetary Open-Economy Models

Benigno, Gianluca; Benigno, Pierpaolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A two-country dynamic general-equilibrium model with imperfect competition and price stickiness is considered. This work shows the conditions under which price stability can implement the flexible-price allocation as a Nash equilibrium. This is possible if and only if both countries maintain a...

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The Sustainability of Optimal Cooperative Macroeconomic Policies in a Two-Country World

Currie, David; Levine, Paul L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

The paper investigates the sustainability of cooperative rules for the conduct of macroeconomic policy in a two-country world. The problem is set out as a supergame in which the threat strategy is to switch to a Nash non-cooperative equilibrium. A number of possible non-cooperative equilibria...

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Ramsey Monetary Policy and International Relative Prices

Faia, Ester; Monacelli, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We analyse welfare-maximizing monetary policy in a dynamic general equilibrium two-country model with price stickiness and imperfect competition. In this context, a typical terms of trade externality affects policy interaction between independent monetary authorities. Unlike the existing...

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Coordination of Capital Taxation Among Asymmetric Countries

Peralta, Susana; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper tackles the issue of international fiscal coordination in a world where markets are integrated but national governments are sovereign. The consequences of capital market liberalization to national fiscal policies and possible remedies to resulting inefficiencies are analysed. A...

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A Simple Framework for International Monetary Policy Analysis

Clarida, Richard; Galí, Jordi; Gertler, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the international monetary policy design problem within an optimizing two-country sticky price model, where each country faces a short run trade-off between output and inflation. The model is sufficiently tractable to solve analytically. We find that in the Nash equilibrium, the policy...

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