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Efficient Level of Seps Licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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Learning from Law Enforcement
Dusek, Libor - 2020
This paper studies how punishment for past offenses affects future compliance behavior and isolates deterrence effects mediated by learning. Using administrative data from speed cameras that capture the full driving histories of more than a million cars over several years, we evaluate responses...
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Spite in Litigation
Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023
This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...
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Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership
Dur, Robert - 2019
This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...
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Efficient Taxation of Fuel and Road Use
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2020
This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...
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Efficiency and Equity : A General Equilibrium Analysis of Rent-Seeking
Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - 2021
inequity). This tradeoff between efficiency and equity is the primary focus of this paper. We investigate how the distribution …
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Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation
Hollingsworth, Alex; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl; … - 2022
We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality …
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Inefficiency in Social Security Trust Funds Forecasts
Lahiri, Kajal; Zhang, Junyan; Zhao, Yongchen - 2021
We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust …
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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we … empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … spending efficiency scores via data envelopment analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …
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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers
Herberholz, Lars - 2020
efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …. Exploring potential efficiency drivers, we uncover considerable effect heterogeneity between subject clusters, which is … seek external funding are largely identified to be primary efficiency drivers …
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