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Understanding what determines the extent to which economic agents tell the truth to their regulating authority is of major economic importance, from banking to environmental protection. To this end, we examine truth-telling of German commercial fishermen in an artefactual field experiment. Their...
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that the eight-year catch-up period allowed in this regulation gives strong incentives to reduce costs since the firms can …Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based cost norms have attractive properties in the regulation of natural monopolies … to suboptimal incentives. When a regulated firm compares the marginal change in its cost norm with its marginal cost of …
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Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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How to design audit mechanisms that harness the benefits of self-reporting for achieving compliance with regulatory targets while limiting misreporting is a pressing question in many regulatory contexts, from climate policies to public health. Contrasting random audit and competitive audit...
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