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Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement …. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …

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Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Filippin, Antonio; Guala, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups compete for a monetary prize, submitting independent bids to an auctioneer. The auctioneer receives perfect information about the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination),...

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Competing with Asking Prices

Lester, Benjamin R.; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the...

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets

Lester, Benjamin R.; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use mechanisms that are socially efficient. In our environment, sellers achieve this by posting an...

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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Koning, Pierre; van de Meerendonk, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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Tax Incidence in the Presence of Tax Evasion

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies the effect of tax evasion on the economic incidence of sales taxes. We design a laboratory experiment in which buyers and sellers trade a fictitious good in double auction markets. A per-unit tax is imposed on sellers, and sellers in the treatment group are provided the...

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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should garner more money than winner-pay auctions. We conduct...

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