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How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2012
This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...
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Aligning Profit Taxation with Value Creation
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2019
The OECD seeks to align transfer pricing and profit taxation with value creation but fails to provide a clear definition. This paper argues that value creation requires international cooperation and that the profit tax base should therefore be allocated according to standards commonly considered...
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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers
Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of … international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have … organizations can improve the credibility of nation-state governments. This hypothesis is tested by introducing three new indicators …
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An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games
Charness, Gary - 2019
ineffective. We can rationalize this result with a novel model about the credibility of cheap-talk messages. This credibility is … credibility and show, both theoretically and experimentally, an interaction effect of network structure and communication …
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The ECB's Policy, the Recovery Fund and the Importance of Trust : The Case of Greece
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Economides, George; … - 2021
This paper, using a microfounded macroeconomic model that embeds the key features of the Greek economy, studies the efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock. The paper attempts to give quantitative answers to...
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Uncertainty, wage setting and decision making in a monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten - 2005
The enlargement of the European Monetary Union is likely to lead to an increase in uncertainty regarding the transmission of monetary policy for the larger union. Adding new members to the central bank council will in addition imply that the policy reaction of the enlarged council will be...
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Can integrity replace institutions? : theory and evidence
Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - 2009
Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of a transactions-based economy with contracts...
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On Self-Serving Strategic Beliefs
Ging-Jehli, Nadja R. - 2019
We experimentally study settings where an individual may have an incentive to adopt negative beliefs about another’s intentions in order to justify egoistic behavior. Our first study uses a game in which a player can take money from an opponent in order to prevent the opponent from...
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Uncertainty and Change : Survey Evidence of Firms' Subjective Beliefs
Bachmann, Rüdiger; Carstensen, Kai; Lautenbacher, Stefan; … - 2021
This paper studies how managers plan under uncertainty. In a new survey panel on German manufacturing firms, we show that uncertainty reflects change: Planning incorporates higher subjective uncertainty about future sales growth when the firm has just experienced unusual growth, and more so if...
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Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles
Bayer, Christian - 2020
How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete markets and portfolio choice between liquid and illiquid assets. The model enlarges the set of shocks and...
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