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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments

Lehmann, Etienne - 2013

, extending the Diamond-Saez formula. The theory and numerical simulations on the US case show that the level and the slope of the …

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Delinquent Networks

Ballester, Coralio - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium : A Level-K Analysis

Gill, David - 2014

In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive...

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Diasporas and Conflict

Mariani, Fabio - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2021

This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Katz-Bonacich centrality measure. This...

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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets … domestic sources (the substitution effect), the loss in international competitiveness has a negative volume effect (the output … international policy interdependence that arises when a competing nation also engages in such a policy. An interesting finding is …

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Mixed Oligopoly in Education

Cremer, Helmuth - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the quality of education depends on "peer group" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second stage they fix their tuition fees. We examine how...

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Information and Learning in Oligopoly : An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria - 2013

choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited …

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Oligopoly and Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2006

to higher unemployment. Also, increased international competition has no affect on the level of outsourcing, but the …

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Suedekum, Jens - 2021

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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