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Seeking rents in the shadow of coase
Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - 2006
Trade opportunities are generally seen as valuable instruments to improve the allocation of resources in society. However, when the traded rights are secured through unproductive rent-seeking contests, the tradeability of the rents may provide stronger incentives to invest in rent-seeking...
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Lobbying of firms by voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns
Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021
Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...
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Selecting less corruptible bureaucrats
Hu, Audrey Xianhua; Zou, Liang - 2007
A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …
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Selecting less corruptible buraucrats : a quasi-auction approach
Hu, Audrey Xianhua; Zou, Liang - 2007
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Errors in judicial decisions
Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van - 2008
In criminal cases the task of the judge is to transform the uncertainty about the facts into the certainty of the verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective probability of guilt and verdict for abstract cases. We look at...
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Comparative analysis of litigation systems : an auction-theoretic approach
Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2000
A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown to the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case....
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Welfare effects of distortionary company car taxation
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009
pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable … taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The estimated annual welfare costs of the distortionary taxation of company cars … are estimated to be at least €2,000 per company car. For the whole of Europe, these welfare costs are estimated to be at …
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The costs and benefits of providing open space in cities
Rouwendal, Jan; Straaten, J. Willemijn van der - 2008
Although many researchers have investigated the value of open space in cities, few of them have compared them to the costs of providing this amenity. In this paper, we use the monocentric model of a city to derive a simple cost-benefit rule for the optimal provision of open space. The rule is...
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The information content of a stated choice experiment
Rouwendal, Jan; Blaeij, Adriana Tanneke de; Rietveld, Piet - 2008 - This version: May 16, 2008
This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...
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