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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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Consider an environment with widespread externalities, and suppose that binding agreements can be written. We study …
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welfare effects of small policy changes in the presence of transport externalities. The model incorporates three types of … externalities: congestion, which has a feedback effect on the behaviour of the economic agents, air pollution and accidents. The … the equity effects of the policy reforms. The second contribution is related to the way in which the externalities are …
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for externalities" is misleading since it tends to imply that there is more to externality than simply the non … detrimental nature of externality. Indeed, Arrow markets will not in general eliminate externalities. In a similar vein it is not …
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This paper proposes a formulation of coalitional payoff possibilities in games with externalities, based on the …
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Demange (1994, 2002), extend to partition function games with negative externalities. Under positive externalities, although …
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paid by the winner. We study the impact of these price-externalities on the first-price auction and the second … independently from the identity of the winner. We prove that the first-price auction is not affected by this kind of price-externalities … by the presence of such price-externalities. In any case, in comparison with the first-price auction, the second …
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We generalise the coalition structure core to partition function games. Our definition relies only on one crucial assumption, namely that there is some internal consistency in the game: residuals of the deviation play a game similar to the initial one, and –whenever this is possible– they...
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externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected … graph. Because of the presence of externalities, the profitability of coalitional threats to an organization depend on the … externalities, while the fully connected organization emerges under negative. This result is shown to hold independently of the …
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externalities. In the context of the partition function, it is shown that any member of this class of sharing schemes leads to the … sharing scheme is particularly powerful for economic problems that are characterized by positive externalities from coalition …
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