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Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We develop a simple model that describes individuals’ self-assessments of

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Sharing Information through Delegation and Collaboration

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

This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two important features. First, the manager has more...

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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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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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Auctions, Market Prices and the Risk Attitude Effect

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper develops one possible argument why auctioning licenses to op- erate in an aftermarket may lead to higher prices in the aftermarket compared to a more random allocation mechanism. Key ingredients in the argument are differences in firms' risk attitudes and the fact that future market...

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Can we measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?

Ding, Xiaohao; Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate … individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions …

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Jacobs, Bas - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore …

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Stochastic Dominance: Convexity and Some Efficiency Tests

Lizyayev, Andrey M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper points out the importance of Stochastic Dominance (SD) efficient sets being convex. We review

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