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The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates … misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory …
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Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we … estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … bias and the bias in consumer price index (CPI) numbers. The PPP bias and subsequent corrected incomes are measured by …
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bias is persistent and robust to several model extensions. Implications for the optimal design of intellectual property …
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lives for three periods. Our results show how a paternalistic government may correct for the effects of anticipation-bias …
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bias in labor court activity - that is, court activity varies systematically with the political leaning of the government …
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bias | but one that represents an optimal Bayesian decision, given the limitations of the mental representation of the …
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We analyze how agents' present bias affects optimal contracting in an infinite-horizon employment setting. The …
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to a fiscal deficit bias at the early stages of financial liberalization. When countries differ in terms of capital …
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I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing and insurance. A government seeking to extract surplus from entrepreneurs...
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When based on perceived rather than on objective income distributions, the Meltzer-Richards hypothesis and the POUM hypothesis work quite well empirically: there exists a positive link between perceived inequality or perceived upward mobility and the extent of redistribution in democratic...
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