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Tax competition, investment irreversibility and the provision of public goods
Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2013
This article studies the effects of tax competition on the provision of public goods under business risk and partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748378
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Buying and selling risk : an experiment investigating evaluation asymmetries
Güth, Werner; Ploner, Matteo; Soraperra, Ivan - 2014
Experimental studies of the WTP-WTA gap avoid social trading by implementing an incentive compatible mechanism for each individual trader. We compare a traditional random price mechanism and a novel elicitation mechanism preserving social trading, without sacrificing mutual incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229862
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Education, disappointment and optimal policy
Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - 2014
explore the design of policy. The model highlights the critical roles played by (i) the relationship between behavioural risk … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467858
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How risky is investment in human capital?
Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004
The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess the variance in the rate of return by surveying … positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450523
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Risk, temptation, and efficiency in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2021
) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … reduces cooperation. In neither study, nor in either subject pool of our second study, do we find a significant effect of risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694148
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Climate risk and commodity currencies
Kapfhammer, Felix; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, … - 2020
proposing a novel news media-based measure of climate change transition risk and show that when such risk is high, major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391358
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The usual suspects : does risk tolerance, altruism, and health predict the response to COVID-19?
Sheth, Ketki; Wright, Greg C. - 2020
find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213128
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Social distancing and risk taking : evidence from a team game show
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Sousa, José de; Noir-Luhalwe, Alexis - 2022
social context affected risk-taking behavior. Remotely, pairs take far fewer risks when the stakes are high than in the flesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440406
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Risk and heterogeneity in benefits from vocational versus general secondary-education : estimates for early and mature career stages in Portugal
Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro; Reis, Hugo - 2023
the literature on wage effects we add a breakdown of variances in heterogeneity and risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309585
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Innovative sales, R&D and total innovation expenditures : panel evidence on their dynamics
Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2009
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between input and output of innovation in Dutch manufacturing using an unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861859