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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...

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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries. In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition, what should be the basis for this favoritism? To the best of our knowledge, these salient questions...

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Sequential Advocacy

Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A.J.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

The collection of information necessary for decision-making is often delegated to agents (e.g. bureaucrats, advisors … single agent. The reason is that two conflicting pieces of information cancel each other out. Using two agents, each … searching for one cause yields full information collection at minimum costs. This provides a rationale for advocacy in political …

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On The Relevance Of Irrelevant Information

Parakhonyak, Alexei - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. I …

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Risk Aversion and the Subjective Time Discount Rate: A Joint Approach

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Booij, Adam S. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

In this paper we analyze a large sample of individual responses to six lottery questions. We

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The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: A Meta-Analysis

Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since the outcomes of primary studies are largely incomparable with respect to the magnitude of the effect, our analysis focuses on the direction and statistical significance of the...

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The Impact of Lobbying on the Allocation of Political Authority

Falconieri, Sonia - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

This paper studies the internal organizational design of political institutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a legislature as composed of two bodies: the floor and an informational committee. The floor has the (formal) power to choose the policy to be implemented. The policy outcome is...

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Information Overload in Multi-Stage Selection Procedures

Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The paper studies information processing imperfections in a fully rational decision-making network. It is shown that … imperfect information transmission and imperfect information acquisition in a multi-stage selection game yield information …

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Capacity Constraints and Beliefs about Demand

Vikander, Nick - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This paper examines how a firm can strategically choose its capacity to manipulate consumer beliefs about aggregate demand. It looks at a market with social effects where consumers want to do what is popular, to buy what they believe others want to buy. By imposing a capacity constraint and...

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