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Die Regulierung eines Marktes ist das Ergebnis eines komplexen Prozesses, der sowohl von politischen als auch wirtschaftlichen Kräften beeinflusst wird. In drei sich ergänzenden Essays wird die Frage ökonometrisch untersucht, wie die Wirkungen und die Leistungsfähigkeit von Regulierungen neu...
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The study analyzes and predicts how individual preferences and majoritarian political decisions about the extent of paternalism in a society depend on the distribution of genuine preferences for economic activities, the distribution of information about these preferences, and the distribution of...
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Der wissenschaftliche Beirat beim Bundesfinanzministerium hat jüngst in einer Stellungnahme darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass die gegenwärtige Finanzordnung in der Europäischen Währungsunion dem Staat in seiner Eigenschaft als Schuldner besondere Privilegien einräumt. Die Autoren geben einen...
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Der wissenschaftliche Beirat beim Bundesfinanzministerium hat jüngst in einer Stellungnahme darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass die gegenwärtige Finanzordnung in der Europäischen Währungsunion dem Staat in seiner Eigenschaft als Schuldner besondere Privilegien einräumt. Die Autoren geben einen...
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The success or failure of the fight against tax havens is the outcome of a coordination game between a tax haven and its potential investors. Key determinants are the costly international pressure and the haven country's revenue pool. The latter is determined endogenously by the decisions of...
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This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and how retaliation affects the outcome. The analysis...
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The standard contest model in which participants compete in a single dimension is well understood and documented. Multi-dimension extensions are possible but are liable to increase the complexity of the contest structure, mitigating one of its main advantages: simplicity. In this paper we...
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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...
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The formation of an alliance in conflict situations is known to suffer from a collective action problem and from the potential of internal conflict. We show that budget constraints of an intermediate size can overcome this strong disadvantage and explain the formation of alliances.
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