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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509622
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World heritage list : does it make sense?
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured sites of humanity's culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, and where national financial resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974639
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World heritage: where are we? : an empirical analysis
Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010
An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the existing List according to countries and continents. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928836
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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013
country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and … little evidence that bilateral trust affects international movements of goods and labor. More generally, we highlight the … statistical tests confirm their validity. -- bilateral trust ; international migration ; international trade ; instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743839
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Market structure and the cost of capital
Arouri, Mohamed; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, … - 2013
sample of firms from developed and emerging countries. -- finance ; international asset pricing ; firm's cost of capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700297
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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732336
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The location of cross-border mergers & acquisitions in the USA
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - First version: October 2014, this version: April 2015
The research on the location choice for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally restricted to a choice between countries. The within-country location choice is less prominent in the literature. If within-country location decisions are considered it is mostly limited to Greenfield...
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The international spillover effects of pension reform
Adema, Yvonne (contributor); Meijdam, Lex (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper explores how pension reforms in countries with PAYG schemes affect countries with funded systems. We use a two-country two-period overlapping-generations model, where the countries only differ in their pension systems. We distinguish between the case where a reform potentially leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003121047
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Global financial transmission of monetary policy shocks
Ehrmann, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003363952
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The trade and welfare effects of mergers in space
Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635266