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This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and singlemarket- induced migration from new to present...
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We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
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profitability (productivity) of his team and of the promotion-seeking efforts of his employees. Our first main result clarifies the … examine the effect of the employees' productivity on their probability of promotion and on the extent of the resources wasted … candidate for promotion) is less likely to be promoted and the conditions under which higher employee's productivity results in …
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Splitting leagues or tournaments seems to be puzzling when agents are homogeneous and splitting leads to a negative competition effect. However, it can be shown that the principal can nevertheless benefit from splitting. First, splitting can be used as a divide-and-rule strategy by the principal...
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-dependence of substitution behavior in out-of-stock (OOS) situations and provides evidence for the relevance of promotion as …
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in accordance to a negative similarity effect which is reduced, however, for OOS items on promotion. The empirical …
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may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If employers expect women to do more household work than men, thereby … exerting less effort in their paid job, then women must be more talented to make promotion profitable. Moreover, specialization …
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