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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
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Nice guys finish last: Are people with higher tax morale taxed more heavily?
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012
This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that 'nice guys finish last': groups with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282548
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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption
Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2013
equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291465
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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - 2005
We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262201
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Protecting Against Labour Market Risk: Employment Protection or Unemployment Benefits?
Boeri, Tito; Conde-Ruiz, Jose Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2003
We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labour market risk. The mix of quantity restrictions and price regulations adopted by the various countries would seem to correspond to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272720
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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269855
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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of … evidence consistent with our theory is also provided. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268686
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Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282231
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Frontier issues of the political economy of migration
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289901
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe - 2003
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261647