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Moral cost, commitment, and committee size
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003
Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from a foreign investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But there are also some small moral costs for those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306978
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Inverse campaigning
Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A’s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306994
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Inverse Campaigning
Konrad, Kai A. - 2003
It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507668
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Inverse campaigning
Konrad, Kai A. - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2002
It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A’s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367872
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Moral cost, commitment, and committee size
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2003
Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from a foreign investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But there are also some small moral costs for those who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367935
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To Deter or to Moderate? Alliance Formation in Contests with Incomplete Information
Konrad, Kai A. - 2016
We consider two players' choice about the formation of an alliance ahead of conflict in a framework with incomplete information about the strength of co-players. When deciding on alliance formation, players anticipate the self-selection of other players and the informational value of own and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002527
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Aspirations of the middle class: Voting on redistribution and status concerns
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2011
. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307680
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Social mobility and redistributive taxation
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social mobility affect the choices of redistributional taxes. In the absence of social mobility, voters choose tax rates that are very well in line with the prediction derived in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307690
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Aspirations of the middle class : voting on redistribution and status concerns
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2011
. Redistribution to real co-players has a negative effect on the median voter's tax rate choice. Further, perceived income mobility … decreases the desired amount of redistribution. Our results suggest the importance of concerns about own mobility as well as … play a role in the political economy context. -- Redistribution ; other-regarding preferences ; median voter ; experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407744
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Social mobility and redistributive taxation
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
attributed to social or other-regarding preferences. -- Median voter ; redistribution ; social mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409123