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Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

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Soda Tax Incidence and Design Under Monopoly

Cremer, Helmuth - 2019

We consider an unhealthy good, such as a sugar-sweetened beverage, the health damages of which are misperceived by consumers. The sugar content is endogenous. We first study the solution under “pseudo” perfect competition. In that case a simple Pigouvian tax levied per unit of output but...

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Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021

We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals’ lifetime utilities...

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Asymmetric Information, Strategic Transfers, and the Design of Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2021

We study the design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when informal care is exchange-based. Parents do not observe their children's cost of providing care, which is continuously distributed over some interval. They choose a rule specifying transfers that are conditional on the level of...

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Coinsurance vs. Copayments : Reimbursement Rules for a Monopolistic Medical Product with Competitive Health Insurers

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

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Income taxation of couples and the tax unit choice

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - 2007

This paper studies the optimal non linear income tax of couples. We build a general unitary model of labor supply and allow multidimensional heterogeneity in a discrete type framework. We concentrate our analysis on the resulting intra-family labor allocation of labor supplies and show that this...

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It's all in Marshall: the impact of external economies on regional dynamics

Audretsch, David B.; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Marshall's student Pigou noted: It's all in Marshall. From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change. Indeed, over time, Marshall's concept of external...

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Fertility, human capital accumulation, and the pension system

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2009

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...

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Education and social mobility

Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We...

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Accidental bequests: A curse for the rich and a boon for the poor

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010

When accidental bequests signal otherwise unobservable individual characteristics such as productivity and longevity, the tax administration should partition the population into two groups: One consisting of people who do not receive an inheritance and the other of those who do. The first tagged...

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