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On the impact of risky private and public returns in the private provision of public goods : the case of social investments

Freundt, Jana; Lange, Andreas - 2019

We use a laboratory experiment to identify the impact of risk in the private and public dimensions of social … to others. We find a detrimental effect of risk on public good provision when returns in both dimensions are risky and … positively correlated or independent. A negative correlation limits the downside risk and leads to more stable social investments …

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All it takes is one : the effect of weakest-link and summation aggregation on public good provision under threshold uncertainty

Carlsson, Frederik; Ek, Claes; Lange, Andreas - 2021

We report experimental evidence on the voluntary provision of public goods under threshold uncertainty. By explicitly comparing two prominent technologies, summation and weakest link, we show that uncertainty is particularly detrimental to threshold attainment under weakest link, where low...

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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 …

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Technology transfers for climate change

Elsayyad, May; Morath, Florian - 2013

This paper considers investments in cost-reducing technology in the context of contributions to climate protection. Contributions to mitigating climate change are analyzed in a two-period model where later contributions can be based on better information, but delaying the contribution to the...

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Do natural hazards cause international migration?

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016

The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...

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Visual representation and stereotypes in news media

Ash, Elliott; Durante, Ruben; Grebenshchikova, Maria; … - 2022

We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and natural language processing tools, the method allows us to analyze both images and text as well as the interaction between the two. We apply this approach to over 2 million web...

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The marginal cost of public funds : a brief guide

Bastani, Spencer - 2023

When deciding on the social desirability of public investment, the cost of a project is sometimes adjusted by a factor known as the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (MCPF) which captures the cost of raising public funds through distortionary taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on...

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The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies : evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023

We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the UK (two similar Western societies) and Morocco and...

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Civic engagement as a constraint on corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2024

Corruption is the great disease of government. It undermines the efficiency of the public sector in many countries around the world. We experimentally study civic engagement (CE) as a constraint on corruption when incentives are stacked against providing CE. We show that CE is powerful in...

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Centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions

Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2013 - This version: June 28, 2013

We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations ́contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...

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