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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014

Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...

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Spillovers in criminal networks : evidence from co-offender deaths

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2024

We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification …

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Theory and evidence on employer collusion in the franchise sector

Krueger, Alan B.; Ashenfelter, Orley - 2018

In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...

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How should we think about employers' associations?

Bryson, Alex; Willman, Paul - 2022

We maintain that employer associations are a specific form of employer collusion that is overt, formal and labour … this form of collusion might emerge, and how it might develop. Since the context is the decline of employers' associations … growth or decline of other forms of collusion in areas such as product and financial markets, and political influence. Our …

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Doctors without borders : the returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Communication and coordination in a two-stage game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...

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Positively aware? : conflicting expert reviews and demand for medical treatment

Balat, Jorge F.; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Qayyum, Shaiza - 2017

We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle...

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Testing

Bergbauer, Annika B.; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...

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The good, the bad and the naive : do fair prices signal good types or do they induce good behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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Private education market, information on test scores and tuition practices

Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Ponczek, Vladimir Pinheiro; … - 2014

In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test...

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