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, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …
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measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers’ presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
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Merchant guilds have been portrayed as “social networks“ that generated beneficial “social capital“ by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action. This social capital, it is claimed, benefited society as a whole by...
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by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that philanthropy does not necessarily increase long-run growth and that it …
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competitive and monopolistic settings. We find that the presence of monopoly results in a higher tax rate than in the competitive … competition, she may prefer – ceteris paribus – a positive tax rate in the presence of monopoly. …
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We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We find … consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human players. In monopoly markets, a monopolist bears a large share …
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Demand for oil is very price inelastic. Facing such demand, an extractive cartel induces the highest price that does not destroy its demand, unlike the conventional Hotelling analysis: the cartel tolerates ordinary substitutes to its oil but deters high-potential ones. Limit-pricing equilibria...
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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999-2009, and … methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected by a …
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corruption where the judicial system is independent, this relationship has more ambiguous effects where the legal system is weak … and susceptible to politicization. These effects remain after controlling for standard determinants of corruption. …
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