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Corruption in the health sector : evidence from unofficial consultation fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015

We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...

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On price-setting for identical products in markets without formal trade barriers

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001

This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...

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Dealer pricing of consumer credit

Bertola, Giuseppe; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Interest rates on consumer lending are lower when funds are tied to purchase of a durable good than when they are made available on an unconditional basis. Further, dealers often choose to bear the financial cost of their customers' credit purchases. This paper interprets this phenomenon in...

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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

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Veteran educators or for-profiteers? : tuition responses to changes in the Post 9/11 GI Bill

Baird, Matthew; Kofoed, Michael S.; Miller, Trey; … - 2020

In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from widely-varying by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This policy created exogenous variation in the changes in reimbursement rates in direction and magnitude for veterans at private universities. We...

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An analysis of beverage size restrictions

Bourquard, Brian A.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2019

Due to high levels of obesity, various government interventions have been proposed to curb the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). The New York City "soda-ban," which proposed to limit the size of SSBs is among the most well-known and controversial. While public debates about...

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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality

Helm, Ines; Koch, Nicolas; Rohlf, Alexander - 2023

We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...

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Hope, noise, and the efficiency of perfect meritocracy

Beltrametti, Luca F.; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

This paper explores the economic effects of imperfect meritocracy in recruitment and career advancement. We compare two career promotion mechanisms: a fully meritocratic system and a "noisy" one, that allows less productive workers to advance. Our model shows that imperfect meritocracy in...

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Does performance information affect job seekers in selecting private providers in voucher-based ALMP programs?

Gerdes, Christer - 2015

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

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Gossip and the efficiency of interactions

Fehr, Dietmar; Sutter, Matthias - 2016

experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …

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