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We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows …
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We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive...
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This paper analyzes the generalized quality differentiation model in multi-sided markets with positive externalities, which leads to new insights into the optimal pricing structure of the firm. We find that quality differentiation for users on one side affects not only the side involving...
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We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...
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We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory … problem of major relevance for the accounting of public natural capital as required by international treaties is to transfer … values between study and policy contexts, or to up-scale values from study sites to the national scale. Our theory provides …
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This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The main hypothesis is that if the average citizen...
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We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor … back out the relative factor costs of 40 major economies in a theory-consistent manner. This reduces the variation in …
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question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory … harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers, essentially making it easier for accounting professionals to move across … countries. Our research design compares the cross-border migration of accounting professionals relative to tightly-matched other …
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How can citizens be motivated to demand accountability in the management of public revenues? We carry out a video survey experiment among 2300 Ghanaian respondents to study the impact of information provision and encouragement messages by a politician and civil society leader on attitudes and...
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