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Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - CESifo - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...

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Matching as a Cure for Underprovision of Voluntary Public Good Supply: Analysis and an Example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2011

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …

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Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2012

-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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Immunity

Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - CESifo - 2013

Legal provisions that protect politicians from arrest and prosecution exist throughout much of the modern democratic world. Why, and with what effects, do societies choose to place their politicians above the law? We examine the institution of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our...

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Size and Development of Tax Evasion in 38 OECD Countries: What do we (not) know?

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2012

For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...

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Evidence on the Political Principal-Agent Problem from Voting on Public Finance for Concert Halls

Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...

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How Expoerts Decide: Preferences or Private Assessments on a Monetary Policy Committee?

Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael; Rivera, Carlos Velasco - CESifo - 2013

Using voting data from the Bank of England, we show that different individual assessments of the economy strongly influence votes after controlling for individual policy preferences. We estimate that internal members form more precise assessments than externals and are also more hawkish, though...

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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey

Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - CESifo - 2014

Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...

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Collusion, Blackmail and Whistle-Blowing

Felli, Leonardo; Hortala-Vallve, Rafael - CESifo - 2015

Whistle-blowing is usually regarded as a way to identify abuse and wrongdoing on the part of governments and corporations. In this paper we show how, at a micro level, whistle-blowing can be used as a designer tool to prevent opportunistic behavior, that takes the form of collusion or blackmail,...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries: Is there a Relationship?

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2009

We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not...

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