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General Equilibrium with Contracts
Kwon, Suehyun - 2017
This paper studies general equilibrium when workers in the economy are also consumers of final goods. Once a firm and a worker are matched, there is a standard moral hazard problem. However, the firm's profit depends on the price of the good the worker produces, and the price is determined by...
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The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
Habla, Wolfgang - 2016
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...
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How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics
Ellison, Glenn - 2010
A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...
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Recent Trends in Co-Authorship in Economics : Evidence from RePEc
Rath, Katharina - 2015
This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …
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A Concise Bibliography of Language Economics
Gazzola, Michele - 2015
to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the …
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...
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The Political Economy of Sales Taxes and Sales Tax Exemptions
Militaru, Andreea - 2014
We analyze the choice politicians face when seeking votes from groups that lobby for sales tax rate decreases or from groups that lobby for certain tax exemptions, given the constraint that politician wants to raise a certain amount of revenue. Using the application of sales taxes and sales tax...
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Behavioral Political Economy : A Survey
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
the market: That's what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes …-interested, unlike the benevolent despot of earlier models. History repeats itself with the rise of behavioral economics: Assuming … in a “benevolent” way. Recently, however, political economists have started to apply behavioral economics insights to the …
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics : With a Response to Commentors
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; List, John A. - 2021
study provides an overview of experimental methods in economics, with a special focus on developing an economic theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315648
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Kind of Black : The Musicians' Labour Market in Italy
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2021
It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians’ labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. We notice how the presence...
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