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Efficient Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin M. - 2013
through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. … decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment …
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Toward a framework for implementation of climate change treaty through self-enforcing mechanisms
Mehra, Meeta Keswani; Mukherjee, Saptarshi; Dutta, Monica - 2012
Global warming caused by accumulation of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is a public bad, addressing which requires collective action by all the countries of the world. Under the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), most countries have negotiated the Kyoto Protocol for GHG...
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Transfer for Disasters: Governmental Responsiveness to Typhoon Risks in China
Bao, Xiaojia; Hsiang, Solomon
by local vulnerability, instead of political connection and governmental efficiency. …
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Effects of institutional history and leniency on collusive corruption and tax evasion
Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen; Mittone, Luigi - 2018
We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes taxpayers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We explore this through a formal leniency program. In our experiment, we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only...
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a …
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Redistributional preferences and imposed institutions
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006
To what extent do imposed institutions shape preferences? We consider this issue by comparing the market … incentives. We conclude that, in some important relevant dimensions, institutional imposition (which lasted for about 50 years …
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The complementary nature of trust and contract enforcement
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2021
Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears important for realizing gains from trade. In contrast, under strong contract enforcement beliefs about other's trustworthiness appear less important, suggesting that trust and...
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Do institutions Matter for economic performance? Theoretical insights and evidence from Turkey
Çetin, Tamer; Çiçen, Yıldırım B.; Eryiğit, Kadir Y. - 2016
This paper studies whether institutions matter for economic performance. For this aim, we first construct a simple … framework illustrating how to examine the interaction between institutions and economic performance from a different point of … interaction between institutions and economic performance in Turkey. Co-integration analysis finds a long-run relationship between …
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The complementarity between trust and contract enforcement
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2021
Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears important for realizing gains from trade. In contrast, under strong contract enforcement beliefs about other's trustworthiness appear less important, suggesting that trust and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513587
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Grind or Gamble? An Experimental Analysis of Effort and Spread Seeking in Contests
Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Wengström, Erik - 2019
We conduct a contest experiment to study if spread seeking and effort can be managed in a situation where participants can invest in increasing both the mean and the spread of an uncertain performance variable. Subjects are treated with different prize schemes and in accordance with theory, we...
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