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Would Global Patent Protection Be Too Weak Without International Coordination?
Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2011
This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...
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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good
Barrett, Scott - 2015
In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024669
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Identity-Driven Cooperation Versus Competition
Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996263
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Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment
Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2018
We study how punishment influences conditional cooperation. We ask two questions: 1) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject can be punished and 2) how does conditional cooperation change if a subject has the power to punish others. In particular, we disentangle the decision to be a...
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Tax Incentives and Business Investment : Evidence from German Bonus Depreciation
Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2014
In this paper, we use an exogenous variation in tax regulations to analyze the impact of bonus depreciation programs on … business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … the theoretical literature, there is empirical evidence for strong and significant effects of the bonus depreciation …
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Accelerated Depreciation, Default Risk and Investment Decisions
Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2016
, this firm can benefit from generous tax depreciation allowances, on the other hand it faces a default risk. Our aim is to … study the effects of tax depreciation allowances in a risky environment. As will be shown in our numerical analysis …, generous tax depreciation allowances lead to a decrease in a firm's leverage and, in most cases, cause a reduction in default …
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Implementation of Communication Equilibria by Correlated Cheap Talk : The Two-Player Case
Vida, Peter - 2011
We show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be implemented as a strategic form correlated equilibrium of an extended game, in which before choosing actions as in the Bayesian game, the players engage in a possibly infinitely long (but...
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Ageing, Government Budgets, Retirement, and Growth
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2011
We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...
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Emotions in Litigation Contests
Baumann, Florian - 2011
This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...
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Commodity Tax Structure Under Uncertainty in a Perfectly Competitive Market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2011
In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on output for a specific (unit) tax can enhance welfare in imperfectly competitive markets and is without impact in a competitive world. This paper demonstrates that a substitution...
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