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Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in favor of the taxpayer do not suffer in their future careers, if the loser-- whether governemnt or taxpayer--appeals and wins, the reversed judge's career does take a turn for the...

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Fiscal Austerity and Public Servant Quality

Haque, Nadeem Ul; Montiel, Peter; Sheppard, Stephen - EconWPA - 1997

of workers employed in that sector. Workers are heterogeneous, and the public sector chooses an employment strategy which …

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Damage Valuation of Indirect Expropriation in Public Services

Abdala, Manuel A.; Spiller, Pablo T. - EconWPA - 2005

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Does Competition Affect Giving? An Experimental Study

Duffy, John; Kornienko, Tatiana - EconWPA - 2005

We explore whether natural human competitiveness can be exploited to stimulate charitable giving in a controlled laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual amounts given and kept, in each period players are publicly...

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Does Motivation Trigger Autonomy, or Vice Versa?

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

motivated? A standard result in economics is that firms offer autonomous jobs to promote worker motivation. But surprisingly … motivates them. Does autonomy in fact trigger motivation? I argue in this study that motivation may trigger autonomy, and thus … motivation, and that motivated workers have a lower cost of processing information than unmotivated ones. While motivated workers …

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Incentives, Monitoring, and Motivation

Rauh, Michael T.; Seccia, Giulio - EconWPA - 2005

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Arousal, rank and utility

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2004

We apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the concept of utility and then go on to a new model where individual’s behavior is aimed at reaching optimal level of arousal of neural system and optimal level of domination in social ranking.

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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?

Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003

Given the importance of green entrepreneurs in the transition towards a truly sustainable society, this paper proposes frameworks for investigating the motives of entrepreneurs who set up green businesses. Different perceptions of 'green' are explored and although the paper focuses particularly...

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Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data

Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

We use county data with 3,058 observations to study growth and convergence in the US. We assess the effect of 40 conditioning variables on the counties’ balanced growth paths. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV, the later yielding consistent estimates, we report estimates for the full sample and for metro,...

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Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes

Manzini, Paola; Ponsati', Clara - EconWPA - 2001

We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this third party involvement. Our main finding is that the potential willigness of the stake holders to make...

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