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International Income Inequality : Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its income tends to be overestimated. Consequently, international …
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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation
Choi, Jay Pil - 2010
programs and the benefits of international antitrust cooperation between agencies. When international antitrust prosecution is …
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World Heritage : Where are We? An Empirical Analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2021
An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered “balanced” from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …
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World Heritage List : Does it Make Sense?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World …
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Human Ethics and Virtues : Rethinking the Homo-Economicus Model
Dhami, Sanjit - 2018
The neoclassical model in economics envisages humans as amoral and self-regarding (Econs). This model, also known as the homo-economicus model, is not consistent with the empirical evidence. In light of the evidence, the continued use of the homo-economicus model is baffling. It also stymies...
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Planer-Friedrich, Lisa - 2017
We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...
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Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....
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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data
Flam, Harry - 2011
Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects on the extensive margin and to obtain controls for firm...
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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence
Simonovska, Ina - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with … and Kortum's (2002) approach. This difference doubles the welfare gains from international trade …
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