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Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2018

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Revealed political favoritism : evidence from the allocation of state lottery grants in Israel

Dahan, Momi; Yakir, Itamar - 2019

allocating state lottery revenues to Israeli municipalities from discretion-based allocation to rules-based allocation. We find … less affluent) municipalities. Our results suggest that adopting rules-based allocation might be effective in coping with …

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International antitrust enforcement and multi-market contact

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2009

This paper analyzes international antitrust enforcement when multinational firms operate in several markets with antitrust authorities in each market. We are concerned with how the sustainability of collusion in one local market is affected by the existence of collusion in other markets when...

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Even small trade costs restore efficiency in tax competition

Becker, Johannes; Runkel, Marco - 2010

We introduce transport cost of trade in products into the classical Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) model of capital tax competition. It turns out that even small levels of transport cost lead to a complete breakdown of the seminal result, the underprovision of public goods. Instead, there is a...

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Adding geography to the new economic geography

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Justifying the Lindahl solution as an outcome of fair cooperation

Buchholz, Wolfgang (contributor); … - 2005

The Lindahl equilibrium is mostly motivated by a rather artificial price mechanism. Even though the analogy to a competitive market has been emphasised by Lindahl himself his approach does not directly explain the normative ideas, which are behind this concept. In the present paper we therefore...

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Think locally, act locally : spillovers, spillbacks, and efficient decentralized policymaking

Ogawa, Hikaru (contributor); Wildasin, David E. (contributor) - 2007

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On the private provision of contentious public characteristics

Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2012

We extend the standard public good provision model to allow players to either like or dislike the public characteristic. Those who dislike it are able to take actions to reduce its level. We present conditions under which the existence of a unique noncooperative equilibrium is retained, and...

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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations : is the EU right?

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012

based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best … output and capacity based allocation is proved to be the optimal second best policy. The EU scheme for 2013-2020 is discussed …, using cement as a case study. -- cap and trade ; output based allocation ; subsidization of capacity ; climate policy …

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A risk allocation approach to optimal exchange rate policy

Mundaca, B. Gabriela (contributor); Strand, Jon (contributor) - 2004

We derive the optimal exchange rate policy for a small open economy subject to terms-oftrade shocks. Firm owners and workers are risk averse but workers more so. Wages are given or partially indexed in the short run, and capital markets are imperfect. The government sets the exchange rate to...

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