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How to get firms to invest : a simple solution to the hold-up problem in regulation
Gersbach, Hans - In: Review of economic design : RED 7 (2002) 1, pp. 45-56
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Financing democracy
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2002
Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that European democracies should use a … mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001737575
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Financing Democracy
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2021
Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that European democracies should use a … mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320334
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Making the most out of social experiments : reducing the intrinsic uncertainty in evidence from randomized trials with an application to the national JTPA experiment
Clements, Nancy; Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000884776
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Dynamic policy analysis
Abbring, Jaap H. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637508
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Reelection threshold contracts in politics
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - In: Social choice and welfare 31 (2008) 2, pp. 233-255
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741232
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Incentive contracts and elections for politicians with multi-task problems
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 68 (2008) 2, pp. 401-411
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789654
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Evaluating marginal policy changes and the average effect of treatment for individuals at the margin
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2009
This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879358
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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2009
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show that if donations were prohibited, then a unique equilibrium regarding the platform choices of candidates would exist. Our game with financing of political campaigns exhibits two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897539
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Evaluating marginal policy changes and the average effect of treatment for individuals at the margin
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869219