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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2021

To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …

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Abusive Transfer Pricing and Economic Activity

Nielsen, Soren Bo - 2014

We demonstrate that the choice of the transfer price and its effect on intra-firm trade and investment depends on the probability of detection and thus on the measure, on which tax authorities base their audit. A policy implication of the paper is that it should be preferable to condition audits...

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Optimal Regulation of Auditing

Pagano, Marco; Immordino, Giovanni - 2021

We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...

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Signaling versus Auditing

Bester, Helmut - 2019

We analyze a competitive labor market in which workers signal their productivities through education à la Spence (1973), and firms have the option of auditing to learn workers' productivities. Audits are costly and non–contractible. We characterize the trade–offs between signaling by...

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Culture and Cooperation

Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021

Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...

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Exchange Rate Expectations of Chartists and Fundamentalists

Dick, Christian David - 2013

This paper provides novel evidence on exchange rate expectations of both chartists and fundamentalists separately. These groups indeed form expectations differently. Chartists change their expectations more often; however, all professionals' expectations vary considerably as they generally...

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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters

Dippel, Christian - 2018

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

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Divided Government Versus Incumbency Externality Effect - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Ade, Florian - 2012

election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 … the findings can be related to an incumbency externality effect and to the theory of voter preferences for divided …

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