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Information and Competition Entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108628
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Revealed Informal Activity
Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2011
What does it mean to be in the informal sector? Many characterizations have been used in the literature, for example, firms that are unregistered or employ a small workforce or firms/economic enterprises that do not have access to formal capital markets. But many people participate in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127331
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Discountinous System of Allowances : The Response of Prosocial Health-Care Professionals
Hernandez-Pizarro, Helena M; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2021
This paper examines the unintended strategic effects of non-linear incentives in public policies. A system of health care subsidies structured in discrete intervals may lead to strategic behaviour. We provide new evidence on this issue, focusing on a case where the strategic actions are taken by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315263
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Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation : Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets
Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023
it mitigates is zero. However, I show that consumers can be made sensitive to impact through a simple information … treatment that increases the salience of subsidies and matches. Salient information increases average WTP for carbon mitigation …-mitigating attribute of offsets and, as a result, appear indifferent to impact variations in the absence of information. Finally, I show …
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070689
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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2018
Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an obvious candidate but a recent strand of the literature has emphasized the need to take into account the growing importance of worker composition effects during downturns. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926720
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Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment
Iyigun, Murat - 2009
This paper combines partner matching with an intra-household allocation model where couples decide if they want to marry or cohabitate. Marriage encourages but does not ensure a higher level of spousal commitment, which in turn can generate a larger marital surplus. Individuals' marital...
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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Oh, Donghyun - 2009
This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159334
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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption
Gans, Joshua S. - 2019
Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894540
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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets
He, Yinghua - 2019
Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...
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