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We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide a political decision-maker with policy-relevant information and to exert pressure on her. Both activities are costly but may induce the lobby's preferred policy. Our paper provides an integrated analysis of both lobbying activities and...
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that equilibrium in the sorting economy imposes on the equilibrium price function. The equilibrium price equation …
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In this article, we test a simple version of Becker's (1973) marriage model for wage setting. This model predicts positive assortative matching. We estimate this model using linked employer--employee data for the France and the United States. We reject the simple version for both countries. The...
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fired because they are not well suited for their job (sorting explanation) or because the firms are trying to provide …
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-likelihood methods using U.S. data. Estimation results indicate a strong Edgeworth complementarity between private and public spending …
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We consider a two-sided, finite-horizon search and matching model with heterogeneous types and complementarity between … the market. When search is costless and all agents participate in each matching round, the market performs a sorting … function in that high types of agents have multiple chances to match with their peers. However, this sorting function is lost …
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In this paper we investigate the principal-multi agent relationship with moral hazard where a risk neutral principal contracts with multiple risk averse agents whose actions are unobservable to the principal. We show that the well--known trade--off between incentive and risk sharing can be...
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This paper extends the principal-agent model to determine the size of the firm as measured by the number of agent hired. Hiring more agents results in benefits and costs to the principal. The benefits are gains from specialization: higher productivity can be achieved if, as the number of agents...
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This paper presents a simple Cass-Koopmans-Ramsey AK growth model with heterogeneity that explains how policies that … place in poor and rich countries alike, arising from productivity heterogeneity and redistribution (although it could also … arise from other sources of heterogeneity). The effect is explicitly captured in the aggregate growth equation by the …
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We consider a general equilibrium model where monetary policy has redistributive effects. Agents have stochastic preferences and face random buying and selling opportunities. We show that the Friedman rule is just the second best policy. However, the Friedman rule is Pareto optimal. It requires...
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