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Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...

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Delegation or Voting

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

quality has been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that of two voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition. The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

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National Interference in Local Public Good Provision

Dur, Robert; Staal, Klaas - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...

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Committee Structure and its Implications for Monetary Policy Decision-making

Berk, Jan Marc; Bierut, Beata K. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

committee, in which a subset of members may meet prior to the voting in the committee and therefore has the possibility to reach … consensus ex ante to vote unanimously ex post. We allow for different committee sizes, various voting rules and differences in … on the setting of interest rates by the committee, provided that members on average are equally skilled and voting takes …

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Pivotal Suppliers and Market Power in Experimental Supply Function Competition

Brandts, Jordi; Reynolds, Stanley S.; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

(MUA) model. We find that pivotal suppliers do indeed exercise their market power in the experiments. We also find that …

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Nonrenewable Resources, Strategic Behavior and the Hotelling Rule: An Experiment

Veldhuizen, Roel van; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This study uses the methods of experimental economics to investigate possible causes for the failure of the Hotelling rule for nonrenewable resources. We argue that as long as resource stocks are high enough, producers may choose to (partially) ignore the dynamic component of their production...

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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market

Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the …

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Tax Liability Side Equivalence in Gift-Exchange Labor Markets

Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related …

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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world's poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in...

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