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Government Outsourcing : Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose...
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External Constraints Matter for Privatizations
Petrarca, Ilaria - 2014
We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...
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Has the EMU Reduced Wage Growth and Unemployment? Testing a Model of Trade Union Behaviour
Mikosch, Heiner - 2013
By using a model of trade union behaviour Grüner (2010) argues that the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary centralization lets the central bank react less flexibly to...
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The Elasticity of Derived Demand, Factor Substitution and Product Demand : Corrections to Hicks' Formula and Marshall's Four Rules
Chirinko, Robert S. - 2006
Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...
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Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates
Bastani, Spencer - 2017
This paper highlights the possibility that negative marginal tax rates arise in an intensive-margin optimal income tax model where wages are exogenous and preferences are homogeneous, but where agents differ both in skills (labor market productivity) and their needs for a work-related...
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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2008
This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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VAT Notches
Liu, Li - 2015
taxable income to an indirect tax setting. We bring the theory to the data, using linked administrative VAT and corporation … tax records in the UK from 2004-2009. Consistently with the theory, voluntary registration is positively related to the … transactions, again consistently with the theory. We provide an estimate of the elasticity of the VAT tax base in the range of 0 …
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How Will Brexit Affect Tax Competition and Tax Harmonization? The Role of Discriminatory Taxation
Fuest, Clemens - 2018
This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries refrain from using different tax rates in different sectors of the economy. We study the impact of one country leaving the union. We show that the introduction of discriminatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927512
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Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration : Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Ines; … - 2021
We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in terms of ability on one side and affinity in the...
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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...
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