Similar Search Results

Motivated motive selection in the lying-dictator game

Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2019

moral motive such as fairness or truth-telling. Yet less is known about what happens when moral motives are in conflict. We … induces in subjects a conflict between two of the most-studied moral motives: fairness and truth-telling. Our experimental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996709

Firm agglomeration in Knowledge Intensive Business Service sectors

Fukui, Shinya - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655552

Public Options and Altruistic Firms - Antitrust Targets or Tools? The Welfare Impact of a Mixed Oligopoly With Managerial Firms

Willner, Johan - 2010

I analyse the welfare impact of a mixed market with a public or private firm with some degree of altruism, in the presence of an agency problem. Contrary to some earlier findings, the total surplus turns out to be increasing in the degree of altruism. This impact is stronger than if there is no...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503013

The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy

Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz; Mergele, Lukas - 2020 - This version: September 11, 2020

The end of communism in the 1990s probably is the most fundamental restructuring of institutions witnessed in recent history. At its core was the large-scale redistribution of previously state-owned companies. We construct a unique firm-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287966

Migration effects on municipalities' expenditures

Viren, Matti - 2016

In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the demographic structure of the population … from 249 municipalities for the period 2000-2014. Empirical analyses show that foreign population tends to increase per … unemployment rate of foreign citizens tends to increase municipalities' expenditures. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503066

Refugee Migration and the Politics of Redistribution: Do Supply and Demand Meet?

Matakos, Konstantinos; Savolainen, Riikka; Tukiainen, Janne - 2020

outcomes in Finnish local elections - a country where municipalities have a significant control over fiscal policies. The … response is less heterogeneous. In the municipalities where the gap between demand and supply is wider also the backlash is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503085

Does expenditure composition influence the debt level? : evidence from German federal states

Stegarescu, Dan - 2013

Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225574

The employment effects of countercyclical infrastructure investments

Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We estimate the causal impact of a sizable German infrastructure investment program on employment at the county level. The program focused on improving the energy efficiency of school buildings, making it possible to use the number of schools as an instrument for investments. We find that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626715

Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441315

The distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU

Lang, Valentin - 2024

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577516