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Self-Regulation and Regulatory Flexibility: Why Firms May be Reluctant to Signal Green
Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2014
Corporate self-regulation is a crucial non-market strategy, and has generally been understood as a response to regulatory threats. However, self-regulation can also influence the nature of regulatory threats, especially when firms have private information about their costs of abatement. We study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096390
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The value of diplomacy: Bilateral relations and immigrant well-being
Becchetti, Leonardo; Clark, Andrew E.; Ricco, Elena Giachin - HAL - 2011
This paper attempts to establish the value of good relationships between countries by considering their effect on a group of individuals who are arguably intimately affected by them: immigrants. We appeal to an index of conflict/cooperation which is calculated as an annual weighted sum of news...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738906
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Political Economy of Fiscal Unions
Fidrmuc, Jan - CESifo - 2013
I formulate a political-economy model of a fiscal union where the threat of secession imposes a limit on fiscal redistribution between regions. I argue that the trade-off between implementing the region’s preferred fiscal policy and benefiting from inter-regional risk sharing depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681224
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Firme intensive en capital humain et coordination : vers une redéfinition du rapport entre intégration et dé-intégration
Sautel, Olivier; Cézanne-Sintès, Cécile - HAL - 2007
The aim of this paper is to reconsider the link between vertical integration and disintegration which are traditionally … opposed in the literature. The conception of integration and disintegration closely depends on the way we define the firm and … of the firm involves a redefinition of the link between integration and disintegration. We advance that it can not be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791165
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The Human Capital-Intensive Firm and Coordination: Redefined Integration and Disintegration
Sautel, Olivier; Cézanne, Cécile - HAL - 2007
The aim of this paper is to reconsider the link between integration and disintegration. We argue that the conception of … disintegration must be differentiated by the tools they give to the firm to effectively govern productive assets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026169
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Economic and Politico-Economic Equivalence of Fiscal Policies
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - CESifo - 2012
We extend “economic equivalence” results, like the Ricardian equivalence proposition, to the political sphere where … environments with distorting taxes, economic equivalence relations between policies with different levels of debt do not extend to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645636
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On the Equivalence between Labor and Consumption Taxation
Panteghini, Paolo - CESifo - 2009
This article studies the equivalence between labor and consumption taxes in a stochastic context, where the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051510
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On the Equivalence of Continuity and Hemicontinuity for Preference Preorders
Gerasimou, Georgios - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2013
Sufficient conditions are provided for a possibly incomplete preference preorder on a topological space to be closed in the product space if and only if it has closed upper and lower contour sets. Notably, it is shown that the two properties are equivalent if the domain of the preorder is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676183