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Does Revealing Personality Data Affect Prosocial Behavior?
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
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Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation
Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023
We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist—who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties—and consumer surplus. If the share of privacy-concerned users is...
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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
Cruzatti C., John - 2020
We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...
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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged
Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023
This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and … Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …
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The European Union's potential for strategic emissions trading through minimal permit sale contracts
Eyckmans, Johan; Hagem, Cathrine - 2009
agreement between the EU and China can cut EU's total compliance cost significantly. This result is robust for a wide range of …
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EU banks rating assignments: Is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010
We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...
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Modernizing the European VAT
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020
The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...
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What Can We Learn from EU ETS?
Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2020
This paper discusses lessons that other regions could learn from European Union's effort to implement carbon pricing through EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS). Our lessons are, first of all, that a cap-and-trade system like EU ETS is very helpful in guaranteeing a credible and binding...
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An Unemployment Re-Insurance Scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and Redistributive Effects
Dolls, Mathias - 2020
This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper finds that the re-insurance...
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25 Years of European Merger Control
Affeldt, Pauline - 2020
We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the 1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently...
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