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Tax-paying for Fun and Profit
Kunstadt, Robert; Maggioni, Ilaria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
it right away. The advantage to the state and its citizens is that monopoly efficiency does not just serve the monopolist …, Subsidies, and Revenue; H21 - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation; H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies; H27 - Other Sources of Revenue) …
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Fiscal Responsibility And Economic Efficiency:A Functional Approach
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In both developed and developing countries, there are basically two main sources of economic instability: exogenous shocks and inappropriate policies. Exogenous shock (terms-of-trade shocks, natural disasters and capital flow reversals) can throw an economy into disequilibrium and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836865
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The Value of Commitment in Auctions with Matching
Lamping, Jennifer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In many auctions, a good match between the bidder and seller raises the value of the contract for both parties although information about the quality of the match may be incomplete. This paper examines the case in which the bidder is better informed about the quality of his match with the seller...
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Mechanism Design for the truthful elicitation of costly probabilistic estimates in Distributed Information Systems
Papakonstantinou, A.; Rogers, A; Gerding, E. H.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that allows a centre to acquire a costly forecast of a future event (such as a meteorological phenomenon) or a probabilistic estimate of a specific parameter (such as the quality of an...
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Mechanism Design for eliciting probabilistic estimates from multiple suppliers with unknown costs and limited precision
Papakonstantinou, A.; Rogers, A.; Gerding, E. H; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper reports on the design of a novel two-stage mechanism, based on strictly proper scoring rules, that allows a centre to acquire a costly probabilistic estimate of some unknown parameter, by eliciting and fusing estimates from multiple suppliers. Each of these suppliers is capable of...
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The Provision of a Public Good with a direct Provision Technology and a Large Number of Agents
Behringer, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper provides a limit result for the provision of a public good in a mechanism design framework as the number of agents gets large. What distinguishes the public good investigated in this analysis is its direct provision technology which is commonplace in modern information technologies.
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Theory of civil war under asymmetric information
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we consider a model that suggests that the theory of exchange with asymmetric information seems suitable to provide a possible explanation model of occurrence and duration of civil wars. We show that although civil conflicts are not Pareto optimal ex post they may be Pareto...
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Seller Competition by Mechanism Design
Damianov, Damian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the market game presented here, sellers offer trade mechanisms to buyers, and buyers randomize over the sellers they visit. The distribution of buyers across sellers is endogenous and depends on all of the transaction opportunities existing in the market. Sellers choose from a broad class of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835726
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Математическая модель экономической системы с распределенными правами собственности
Kolesnik, Georgiy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
property rights allocation on the economic efficiency of the management strategies is studied. …
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Controlled Chaos with Consumer Welfare as the Winner – a Study of the Goals of Polish Antitrust Law
Miasik, Dawid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
competition law have always been limited to enhancing efficiency and consumer welfare, with this latter term being understood in a …This article presents the main issues relating to the goals of modern Polish competition law. It examines the … relationship between the subject-matter of competition law, its function and its goals. It identifies various goals of competition …
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