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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...

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An economics approach to language policy and linguistic justice

Wickström, Bengt-Arne; Templin, Torsten; Gazzola, Michele - 2017

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they...

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Geographical origins and economic consequences of language structures

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: evidence from university versus corporate patents

Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; Jaffe, Adam B.; Sun, Shupeng; … - 2020

Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using...

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Information transmission and ownership consolidation in aid programs

Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors ́choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project...

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Communicating subjective evaluations

Lang, Matthias - 2014

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...

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Information transmission within federal fiscal architectures : theory and evidence

Gehring, Kai; Kotsogiannēs, Chrēstos; Marchesi, Silvia - 2013

" consists of unverifiable information and the quality of communication depends on the conflict of interests between the …

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Pre-play communication with forgone costly messages : experimental evidence on forward induction

Blume, Andreas; Kriss, Peter H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2016

We experimentally study optional costly communication in Stag-Hunt games. Prior research demonstrates that efficient … coordination is difficult without a communication option but obtains regularly with mandatory costless pre-play messages. We find … that even small communication costs dramatically reduce message use when communication is optional, but efficient …

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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on an dishonesty shift

Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016

deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …

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Personal communication in a Fintech World : evidence from loan payments

Laudenbach, Christine; Pirschel, Jenny; Siegel, Stephan - 2018

We examine the effect of personal, two-way communication on the behavior of borrowers, who have fallen behind on their … suggest that the form of communication significantly affects borrowers' payment behavior. …

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