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Radio and the rise of Nazi in pre-war Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2013
How far can media undermine democratic institutions and how persuasive can it be in assuring public support for dictator policies? We study this question in the context of Germany before World War II, between 1929 and 1939. First, we estimate the impact of radio signal on voting for the Nazi...
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The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Wößmann, Ludger - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
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Designing Contests Between Heterogeneous Contestants: An Experimental Studie of Tie-Breaks and Bid-Caps in All-Pay Auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman; Szech, Nora - 2020
Contests are well-established mechanisms for political lobbying, innovation, rentseeking, incentivizing workers, and …
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Imperfect Information and the Meltzer-Richard Hypothesis
Bredemeier, Christian - 2010
Standard models of voting on redistribution generate a clear-cut prediction: redistribution increases in income … accompanied by developments in redistribution into the opposite direction. This paper argues that it is important to distinguish … skewness. In a model with imperfect information, these developments affect redistribution in different ways. While polarization …
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Preferences for childcare policies: Theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2010
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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Ex-post Optimal Knapsack Procurement
Jarman, Felix; Meisner, Vincent - 2015
We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who wants to select an optimal subset of projects to maximize her utility. Project costs are private information and the value the designer derives from their provision may vary. In this allocation problem the choice of projects - both which...
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Licensing with Free Entry
Muthers, Johannes; Inceoglu, Firat; Doganoglu, Toker - 2013
The literature on the licensing of an innovation has mainly focused on some speci c contract types. We show within the framework of a fairly general model that removing these contractual limitations will lead to extreme market outcomes. Speci cally, we nd that when the patentee can employ...
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A dynamic auction for multi-object procurement under a hard budget constraint
Giebe, Thomas; Ensthaler, Ludwig - 2010
A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by observable quality and sellers have private reserve prices for their items. Sellers quote prices strategically, inducing a knapsack game. The buyer's problem is to select a subset of maximal...
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Public Distribution System in India - Leakage, Self-Selection and Targeting Errors
Kozicka, Marta; Weber, Regine; Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2016
Despite the large-scale antipoverty programs, especially food and nutrition programs, 15 per cent of Indian population is undernourished. India's current implementation of the world largest food aid program, the National Food Security Act (NFSA), experiences many challenges and needs rigorous...
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The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Siegloch, Sebastian; Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max - 2016
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the number of spies in the 1980s, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to...
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