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Yardstick Competition, Corruption, and Electoral Incentives
Van Long, Ngo - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that voters use a yardstick criterion. The incumbent provides a public good and extracts rent, which are financed by imposing a distortionary tax. We demonstrate the possibility that...
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Pricing Internet Traffic : Exclusion, Signalling and Screening
Jullien, Bruno - 2014
We consider a network that intermediates traffic between free content providers and consumers. While consumers do not know the traffic cost when deciding on consumption, a content provider knows his cost but may not control the consumption. We study how pricing consumers' and content providers'...
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Incentive Regulation, Investments and Technological Change
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2021
Based on an idiosyncratic reading of the literature I propose intermediate (rather than tight or soft) regulation for balancing investment incentives with allocative efficiency and competition objectives. Intermediate regulation is compatible with incentive regulation and helps lengthening the...
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A Leverage Theory of Tying in Two-Sided Markets
Choi, Jay Pil - 2016
Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …
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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries
Egger, Hartmut - 2011
setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …
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Do Cost-Sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
deregulation may lead to quality-improvements of pharmaceuticals, despite reducing price-setting power of pharmaceutical companies …
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training : A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of … deregulation increases training incidence …
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Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security : Political-Economy Effect
Razin, Assaf; Sand, Edith - 2021
The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...
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Efficiency and Environment Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-Fired Power Plants
Chan, H. Ron - 2013
We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data...
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Tax Interaction Among Walloon Municipalities : Is there Room for Yardstick Competition, Intellectual Trend and Partisan Monopoly Effect?
Gérard, Marcel - 2012
Three sources of strategic tax interactions among local jurisdictions are usually considered in the literature: public expenditure spill-over, tax competition and yardstick competition. However, another source has now been suggested: the intellectual trend. According to that hypothesis,...
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