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of savings, precautionary savings, loss aversion, and risk. We provide the relevant theory, followed by empirical tests … based on subject-specific choices, and the measurement of subject-specific behavioral parameters such as loss aversion and … present bias. We predict, and show empirically, that loss aversion reduces savings, and that those who are more loss averse …
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Commonly used methods of production function estimation assume that a firm’s output quantity can be observed as data, but typical datasets contain only revenue, not output quantity. We examine the nonparametric identification of production function from revenue data when a firm faces a general...
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One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that...
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This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood diseases. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936 based on historical sources. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by...
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This paper presents an empirical model of sponsored search auctions in which advertisers are ranked by bid and ad quality. We introduce a new nonparametric estimator for the advertiser’s ad value and its distribution under the ‘incomplete information’ assumption. The ad value is...
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Following recent court rulings, cross-border loss compensation for multinational firms will likely be introduced, at … cross-border loss compensation is likely to intensify tax competition when, following current international practice, the … parent firm's home country bases the tax rebate for a loss-making subsidiary on its own tax rate. In equilibrium, tax revenue …
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This paper analyzes the impact of particular loss offset limitations on intrastate and crossborder investment decisions … investment incentives of tax law asymmetries. Integrating an initial loss carryforward at the time of investment creates a … special decision situation. Varying loss offset parameters typically induces ambiguous effects that depend on the combination …
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This paper illustrates that the generalized propensity score method can easily be applied with multiple continuous endogenous treatment variables. Consistency proofs carry over straightforwardly to this general case, and the approach is shown to work well in finite samples with various...
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A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
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This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...
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