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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...

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Lobbying of Firms by Voters

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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The Role of Information in the Take-up of Student Loans

Booij, Adam; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Policies need not only to be well designed to effectively address market failures, but their parameters also need to be part of agents’ information sets. This is illustrated by government student loans in the Netherlands which are intended to alleviate liquidity constraints. Despite generous...

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Can Provision of Free School Uniforms harm Attendance? Evidence from Ecuador

Hidalgo, Diana; Onofa, Mercedes; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

To raise school attendance, many programs in developing countries eliminate or

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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ewijk, Reyn van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in...

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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...

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The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation; Reducing Implementations Costs through 'Matching Zones'

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Wolde, Sjoerd ten - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This paper discusses various ways to organise these consultations, so that a compromise agreement is reached on the solution of the (re)distribution problem. These institutionalised structures of consultation are referred to as 'matching zones' here. Practical experiences, mainly from the...

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