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Merger negotiations and ex-post regret
Gärtner, Dennis (contributor);  … - 2007
We consider a setting in which two potential merger partners each possess private information pertaining both to the profitability of the merged entity and to stand-alone profits, and we investigate the extent to which this private information makes ex-post regret an unavoidable phenomenon in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387546
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Reexamining the determinants of fiscal decentralization : what is the role of geography?
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565895
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Crime and education in a model of information transmission
Cortés, Darwin; Friebel, Guido; Maldonado, Darío - 2010
We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop-out and engage in criminal activities. We build on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746932
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Efficient communication in organizations
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence activities. An efficient communication protocol grants completeinformation payoffs to all organization members, thereby overcoming asymmetric information problems at no cost. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463790
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Climate policies : a burden or a gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2013
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737413
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The impact of immigration on Portuguese intra-industry trade
Leitão, Nuno Carlos - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between intra-industry trade (IIT) and immigration flows using a gravity model for the period 2000-2010 between Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). The present study uses the methodology of Kandogan (2003) for separating IIT into its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009714371
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A global dataset of human mobility
Chan, Ho Fai; Skali, Ahmed; Torgler, Benno - 2020
ready-to-use indexes of human mobility spanning 131 countries and territories and 818 sub-national regions across a time … period between 16 February 2020 to 29 March 2020. We extract these data from Google's newly released mobility reports, which … cover phone-tracking-based changes in mobility across several types of locations, including retail and recreation, grocery …
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Risk attitudes and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chan, Ho Fai; Skali, Ahmed; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David - 2020
attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioural responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results … indicate a strong negative relationship between mobility reduction and risk-taking preferences. We find that the sharp decline … in movement after the WHO (World Health Organization) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic can be attributed to risk …
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Decentralization and intra-country transfers in the Great Recession : the case of the EU
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2018
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Coping with extreme events : on solving decentralized budgetary crises
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2023
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