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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014
-maximizing policy. Thus, in our model, policies that trade off equity and efficiency considerations are politically infeasible. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358277
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Income tax buyouts and income tax evasion
Goerke, Laszlo - 2014
A tax buyout is a contract between tax authorities and a tax payer which reduces the marginal income tax rate in exchange for a lump-sum payment. While previous contributions have focussed on labour supply, we consider the interaction with tax evasion and show that a buyout can increase expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237195
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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199693
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Corporate taxation and financial strategies under asymmetric information
Cohen, Francesco; Fedele, Alessandro; Panteghini, Paolo - 2014
In this article we study the corporate tax effects on credit market equilibria. In particular, we develop a model that accounts for five pieces of evidence: i) the existence of a tax incentive to borrow, ii) the negative relationship between leverage and profitability, iii) the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347029
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Regulatory arbitrage and the efficiency of banking regulation
Boyer, Pierre C.; Kempf, Hubert - 2016
We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where … to locate their activities and have private information about their efficiency level. Regulators non-cooperatively offer … regulators to discriminate between banks with different efficiency levels. This result is driven by the endogenous restriction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458020
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Optimal design of intergovernmental grants under asymmetric information
Huber, Bernd; Runkel, Marco - 2003
This paper develops a theoretical explanation why it may be optimal for higher-level governments to pay categorical block grants or closed-ended matching grants to local governments. We consider a federation with two types of local governments which differ in the cost of providing public goods....
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When ignorance is bliss : information asymmetries enhance prosocial behavior in dictator games
Winschel, Evguenia; Zahn, Philipp - 2014
In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their decision influences the payoff of other players. Outside the laboratory, however, individuals typically have to decide without such detailed knowledge. To assess the effect of information...
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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285520
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Vertical product differentiation when quality is unobservable to buyers : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation, March 2003
Orosel, Gerhard O.; Zauner, Klaus G. - 2004
We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
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Asymmetric information and overinvestment in quality
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2009
investment can avoid adverse selection and, second, an efficiency effect according to which a larger investment reduces the …
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