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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...

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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...

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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. …

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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...

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Integration, disintegration and trade in Europe: Evolution of trade relations during the 1990s

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2000

Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and the Baltics was very high around the time of disintegration, exceeding the normal level of trade … approximately 40 times. Disintegration has been followed by a sharp fall in trade intensity. On the other hand, the trade …

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Stability of monetary unions: Lessons from the break-up of Czechoslovakia

Fidrmuc, Jan; Horvath, Julius; Fidrmuc, Jarko - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 1999

In 1993, Czechoslovakia experienced a two-step break-up. On January 1, the country disintegrated as a political union, while preserving an economic and monetary union. Then, the Czech-Slovak monetary union collapsed on February 8. This paper analyzes the economic background of the two break-ups...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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