Showing 1 - 10 of 22
Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094434
This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150641
When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877815
favorable conditions for matching on the one hand, and for global collective decisions on the other hand. We establish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889986
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272629
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546957
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments the participants often choose lotteries between allocations, which contradicts most theories of choice such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757728
inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766013
model the principal-agent economy as a two-sided matching game and characterise the set of stable outcomes of this principal …-agent matching market. A simple mechanism to implement the set of stable outcomes is proposed. Finally, we put forward examples of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766124
This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals’ choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy’s skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766172