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The Signaling Role of Charitable Contributions by Businesses : A Tax Policy Perspective

Blumkin, Tomer - 2016

Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...

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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Blumkin, Tomer - 2014

We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that offsets the positive externality, which causes the...

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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2021

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - CESifo - 2014

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What Crisis? Taking Stock of Management Researchers Experiences with and Views of Scholarly Misconduct

Hoover, Gary A. - 2017

This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...

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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583656

Powering Up Developing Countries Through Integration?

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2012

Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...

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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty

Christiansen, Vidar - 2013

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of uncertainty about subsequent abatement cost, but can subsequently adjust output in the light of true marginal abatement cost. Where an emission tax is the only available instrument,...

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The Engine Immobilizer : A Non-Starter for Car Thieves

van Ours, Jan C. - 2013

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...

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The Impact of Market Regulations on Intra-European Real Exchange Rates

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2013

We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union …. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors … countries over 1985-2006 to quantify the contributions of the pure Balassa-Samuelson effect and those of market regulations in …

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