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Endogenous Public Information and Welfare in Market Games

Vives, Xavier - 2016

This paper performs a welfare analysis of economies with private information when public information is endogenously generated and agents can condition on noisy public statistics in the rational expectations tradition. We find that equilibrium is not (restricted) efficient even when feasible...

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Distinctively Different : A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Holman, Nancy - 2021

We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We...

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Subsidizing National Champions : An Evolutionary Perspective

Aubert, Cecile - 2008

externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a simple model, we show that it may be efficient to subsidize innovative firms in their … early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …-benevolent politicians may not choose efficient policies. Real-world examples indicate that politicians tend to concentrate on externalities …

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Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining

Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2010

More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011

Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...

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Wages and International Tax Competition

Krautheim, Sebastian - 2012

Rent-sharing between firm owners and workers is a robust empirical finding. If workers bargain with firms, information on the actual surplus is essential. When the firm can use profit shifting to create private information on the surplus, it can thereby reduce its wage bill. We study how rent...

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Signing Distortions in Optimal Tax and Other Adverse Selection Problems with Random Participation

Jacquet, Laurence - 2012

We develop a methodology to sign output distortions in the random participation framework. We apply our method to monopoly nonlinear pricing problem, to the regulatory monopoly problem and mainly to the optimal income tax problem. In the latter framework, individuals are heterogeneous across two...

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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs

Dreher, Axel - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors' choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely,...

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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence

Dreher, Axel - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...

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Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful

Schöb, Ronnie - 2009

We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160522

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