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Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms

Martin, Simon; Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2021

Sophisticated collusive compensation schemes such as assigning future market shares or direct transfers are frequently observed in detected cartels. We show formally why these schemes are useful for dampening deviation incentives when colluding firms are temporary asymmetric. The relative...

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness: Do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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Agglomeration and aid

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2006

A key issue in development economics is the explanation of core-periphery patterns around the world. Combining this issue with that of analyzing unilateral transfers (e.g. foreign aid) points in the direction of the use of New Economic Geography (NEG) models which, so far, has not been done...

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Modernizing the European VAT

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020

foster economic growth. The Member States of the European Union (EU) should be allowed to replace their defective VATs with a …

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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers

Herberholz, Lars - 2020

The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....

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Preferential Tax Regimes with Asymmetric Countries

Bucovetsky, Sam - 2006

Current policy initiatives taken by the EU and the OECD aim at abolishing preferential corporate tax regimes. This note …

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Fiscal Sustainability in the EU after the Global Crisis : Is There Any Progress?

Wysocki, Maciej - 2018

interesting case of a member state that without significant market pressure (the only EU country without recession during the … crisis) actively promoted several changes in the EU fiscal framework (e.g. 6-pack) and effectively internalized some of these … 2014 Q1. The case of Poland seems to suggest that the post-crisis EU fiscal measures can be effectively used to increase …

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A Tale of (Almost) 1001 Coefficients : Deep and Heterogeneous Effects of the Eu-Turkey Customs Union

Larch, Mario - 2019

In view of the deferred start of negotiations for the modernization of the Customs Union between the EU and Turkey (CU … additional increase in EU-Turkey manufacturing trade by 55-65% compared to the previously active Ankara Agreement. We also …

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Dual Labour Markets Revisited

Bentolila, Samuel - 2019

This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...

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Central Bank Policies and Financial Markets : Lessons from the Euro Crisis

Mody, Ashoka - 2019

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone’s rolling financial crisis. For providing desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we identify financial markets’ response to the...

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