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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
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Disentangling fiscal effects of local constitutions
Kantorowicz, Jarosław; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017
We apply the difference-in-discontinuities design to disentangle the fiscal effects of the governance system conditional on electoral systems. We take advantage of a natural experiment, which involves two institutional reforms at the local level in Poland. The first reform introduced two...
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Public sector efficiency in Europe : long-run trends, recent developments and determinants
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Kucsera, Dénes - 2018
This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …
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The effects of local demand and supply restrictions on markup
Acconcia, Antonio; Scarinzi, Elisa - 2022
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Natural resource windfalls in nonproducing areas
Ome, Alejandro; Pérez, Javier - 2022
We study the impact of natural resource royalties on educational outcomes in Colombia. We analyze a reform enacted in 2012 that made the distribution of these royalties more equitable. Before the reform, most royalties were assigned to the regions where the natural resources were exploited; with...
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The economic impact of weather and climate
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...
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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016
A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...
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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
variation of elected competitors by investigating changes in competition induced by legislators who leave parliament during the … inclusion of other measures for political competition. …
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Competition in signaling
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
I study a multi-sender signaling game between an uninformed decision maker and two senders with common private information and conflicting interests. Senders can misreport information at a cost that is tied to the size of the misrepresentation. The main results concern the amount of information...
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Changing the allocation rules in the EU ETS : impact on competitiveness and economic efficiency
Quirion, Philippe; Demailly, Damien - 2008
-BA), and finally output-based allocation in sectors exposed to international competition combined with auctioning in …
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