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Applications and interviews: A structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search
Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2011
A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers …
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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - 2011
all their candidates) only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post Bertrand competition generate the maximum matching on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277402
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Matching as a cure for underprovision of voluntary public good supply: Analysis and an example
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2011
Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274970
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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2012
-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283595
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Flipping a Coin: Theory and Evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments the participants often choose lotteries between allocations, which contradicts most theories of choice such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352389
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Do Mergers Among Multimarket Firms Create Value?
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016
contribute, on average, 20% of the total merger value added. Moreover, we find that multimarket efficiency gains dominate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555581
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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L.; Bickwit, Grant - 2018
welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies underinvestment. That …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932077
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There and Back Again: A Simple Theory of Planned Return Migration
Knauth, Florian; Wrona, Jens - 2018
We present supportive empirical evidence and a new theoretical explanation for the negative selection into planned return migration between similar regions in Germany. In our model costly temporary and permanent migration are used as imperfect signals to indicate workers’ high but otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957204
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Redistribution or education?: the political economy of the social race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2007
In an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investments for their kids. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but it...
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Too old to work, too young to retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264225