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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2013

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country’s residents, and, by … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by … examining the impact of emigration on income distribution in the source country. …

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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - CESifo - 2013

Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...

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Cake-Eating with Private Information

Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - CESifo - 2014

We consider a model of cake-eating with private information. The model captures phenomena such as trust and “security of supply” in resource-use relationships. It also predicts supply shocks as an equilibrium phenomenon: privately informed sellers have incentives to reveal resource scarcity...

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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - CESifo - 2014

We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider’s (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-profit Provision and Charity Selection

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - CESifo - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...

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Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty

Békés, Gabor; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Murakozy, Balazs - CESifo - 2014

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a...

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A Model of Strategic Delegation in Contests between Groups

Brandauer, Stefan; Englmaier, Florian - CESifo - 2006

We analyze a contest between two groups where group members have differing valuations for the contested rent. Generically the pivotal group member with the median valuation of the rent will not act himself but will want to send a group member that has preferences different to her own into the...

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