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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach

Lazear, Edward P. - 2010

A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...

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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic …

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On the Effects of Linking Voluntary Cap-and-Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions

Weitzman, Martin L. - 2018

Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...

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Climate Policy and Voluntary Initiatives : An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2010

Can simple government programs effectively promote voluntary initiatives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions? This paper provides an evaluation of how the Connecticut Clean Energy Communities program affects household decisions to voluntarily purchase "green" electricity, which is electricity...

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Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Self-Enforcement

Halac, Marina - 2017

We study a fiscal policy model in which the government is present-biased towards public spending. Society chooses a fiscal rule to trade off the benefit of committing the government to not overspend against the benefit of granting it flexibility to react to privately observed shocks to the value...

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Private Politics and Public Regulation

Egorov, Georgy - 2013

We develop a dynamic game to explore the interaction between regulation and private policies, such as self-regulation by firms and activism. Without a public regulator, the possibility of self-regulation is bad for the firm, but good for activists who are willing to maintain a costly boycott to...

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Shaping Liquidity : On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Balakrishnan, Karthik - 2013

Can managers influence the liquidity of their firms' shares? We use plausibly exogenous variation in the supply of public information to show that firms seek to actively shape their information environments by voluntarily disclosing more information than is mandated by market regulations and...

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Voluntary Emission Restraints in Developing Economies : The Role of Trade Policy

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dolabella, Marcelo; Moreira, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the role of trade policy in one of the most pressing climate policy challenges that developing countries face: meeting voluntary emission restraints (VERs). To do so, we develop a general equilibrium trade model that extends Caliendo and Parro (2015) in three dimensions. First, we model...

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Voluntary Minimum Wages

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Recent wage growth at the bottom of the earnings distribution in the U.S. has reversed a decades-long trend of widening wage inequality. Numerous state and local minimum wage increases have overtaken an effectively non-binding federal minimum, and robust labor demand in the post-pandemic...

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