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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We apply a Regression Discontinuity based approach to screen for collusion developed in Kawai et al. (2022) to public procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than those who lose by a very small margin in the...
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States : A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
Mitnik, Pablo - 2020
We carry out a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for long-run income in Denmark and the United … relative to Denmark rather than just lower-bound estimates of IOp in the two countries. There are five main results. First … income is high in the United States and far from negligible in Denmark: before taxes and transfers, the lower-bound Gini …
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre - 2006
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
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Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high ….S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family influence on important child outcomes in Denmark is about as strong as it is …
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The Scandinavian Fantasy : The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S
Landersø, Rasmus - 2016
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income … mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities …
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Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009
Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely across investment classes. I then consider...
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Investment versus Output Subsidies : Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy
Aldy, Joseph E. - 2018
This paper examines the choice between subsidizing investment or output to promote socially-desirable production. We exploit a natural experiment in which wind farm developers could choose an investment or output subsidy to estimate the impact of these instruments on productivity. Using...
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Level versus Variability Trade-offs in Wind and Solar Generation Investments : The Case of California
Wolak, Frank A. - 2016
Hourly plant-level wind and solar generation output and real-time price data for one year from the California ISO …
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power : Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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