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Sending the Pork Home : Birth Town Bias in Transfers to Italian Municipalities

Carozzi, Felipe - 2015

pork-barrel policies in the literature. Rather, politicians may be pursuing other personal motives. We explore several …

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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community

Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy - CESifo - 2011

This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...

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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community

Ihle, Rico - 2015

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Incentives, Reputation and the Allocation of Authority

Englmaier, Florian - 2010

We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensation-based and reputational incentives. The optimal level of authority balances the value of the manager's...

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Cooperation and Mistrust in Relational Contracts

Herz, Holger - 2016

Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...

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The Efficiency Costs of Dividend Taxation with Managerial Firms

Köthenbürger, Marko - 2015

-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be … investment response, in contrast to insights from previous literature. We provide a testable implication to infer the mode of … investment finance from investment responses. Furthermore, we show that imposing income tax on managerial incentive pay is …

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A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries

Brueckner, Jan K.; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 2008

This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters “squeeze” the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...

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Body Image and Food Disorders: Evidence from a Sample of European Women

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - CESifo - 2008

Excessive preoccupation for self-image has been pointed out as an essential factor explaining food disorders. This paper draws upon Akerlof and Kranton (2000) to model how ’self-image’ and others’ appearances influence health related behaviours. We estimate the influence of ’peers’...

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Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol?

Baumeister, Christiane - 2017

It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...

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Impact of European Food Safety Border Inspections on Agri-Food Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms

Beestermöller, Matthias Gerhard - 2016

The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...

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