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interaction between the incentive-compatibility and participations constraints may cause countervailing incentives. In important …
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We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the...
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incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …
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) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to blood donors may crowd out blood supply as purely altruistic donors may … types of incentives are related to the likelihood of donating blood by exploiting a large sample representative of 15 …
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This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
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payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around this optimum are, however, identical across treatments. We introduce …
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version instead. We show that pharmacies' substitution incentives are determined by relative margins and relative patient … coinsurance. In terms of policy implications, our results suggest that pharmacy incentives are crucial for promoting generic sales …
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a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all tasks we find that incentives seem to have very small effects and …
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The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like...
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Prior work has demonstrated that prosocial incentives – where individuals' effort benefits a charitable organization … – can be more effective than standard incentives, particularly when the stakes are low. Yet, little is known about the … effectiveness of prosocial incentives on people's decisions to participate or opt-in to the incentivized activity in the first place …
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