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Bribes vs. Taxes : Market Structure and Incentives
Amodio, Francesco - 2018
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To decrease these costs, we designed a feedback incentive scheme for business tax inspectors that...
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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...
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Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
Cai, Xiaoming - 2016
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of buyer is the efficient outcome if and only if meetings are...
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Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
Jarosch, Gregor - 2019
We build a model where firm size is a source of labor market power. The key mechanism is that a granular employer can eliminate its own vacancies from a worker's outside option in the wage bargain. Hence, a granular employer does not compete with itself. We show how wages depend on employment...
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...
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Marketmaking Middlemen
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2016
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show …
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Manipulation of Choice Behavior
Manzini, Paola - 2011
We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision …
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Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
Gerard, Francois - 2016
unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs …
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External Monitors and Score Manipulation in Italian Schools : Symptomatic Treatment or Cure?
Bertoni, Marco - 2019
effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the …, this effect disappears, suggesting that monitoring is a symptomatic treatment rather than a cure of score manipulation. We …
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Fake News
Grunewald, Andreas - 2017
In the last decade, social media and the Internet have amplified the possibility to spread false information, a.k.a. fake news, which has become a serious threat to the credibility of politicians, organizations, and other decision makers. This paper proposes a framework for investigating the...
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