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Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2002

In many business transactions, in labor-management relations, in international conflicts, and welfare state reforms claims acquired in the past seem to create strong entitlements that shape current negotiations. Despite their importance, the role of entitlements in negotiations has not received...

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Valuing the time of the self-employed

Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022

People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...

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A matter of perspective : how experience shapes preferences for redistribution

Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd Heinrich - 2017

We investigate in a laboratory experiment if the experience of economic failure or success shapes people's preferences for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an effort-based tournament. A sub-set of subjects could...

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Repeated lobbying by commercial lobbyists and special interests

Groll, Thomas; Ellis, Christopher J. - 2016

special interests employ professional intermediaries called commercial lobbyists to lobby policymakers on their behalf. Our …

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Complementarities, coordination, and culture

Ellis, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jon C.; Wu, Jiabin - 2016

of a minority. In an extension of the model we introduce "intermediaries" who may either facilitate other-type matching … or improve after-match coordination. We then ask which parent population, the minority or majority, the intermediaries …

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Omnia Juncta in Uno : foreign powers and trademark protection in Shanghai's concession era

Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - 2022

growth of Chinese intermediaries. At the aggregate level, trademark-intensive industries witnessed a net growth in employment …

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Who lobbies whom? : special interests and hired guns

Ellis, Christopher J.; Groll, Thomas - 2018

We model which special interest groups lobby which policymakers directly, and which employ for-profit intermediaries … policymakers via the promise of a high probability future political access. For-profit intermediaries are always in the … that "insecure" policymakers, those in vulnerable seats, tend to be lobbied by professional intermediaries. Also …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on …

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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022

We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....

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Digital ecosystems : the adtech tax and content quality

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio; Shekhar, Shiva - 2024

The adtech industry plays a key role in facilitating connections between digital publishers and advertisers. This paper studies the impact of vertical integration between an intermediary and a major publisher on the online advertising ecosystem and the provision of content. We find that vertical...

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