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We analyze tax competition between two countries of unequal size trying to attract a foreign-owned monopolist. When regional governments have only a lump-sum profit tax (subsidy) at their disposal, but face exogenous and identical transport costs for imports, then both countries will always...
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This paper uses a political principal-agent model to analyze the process by which international environmental treaties are negotiated and ratified. To the extent that political principals hire negotiators on the basis of their negotiation skills rather than their policy preferences, negotiators...
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Efficient routines for multidimensional numerical integration are provided by quasi-Monte Carlo methods. These methods are based on evaluating the integrand at a set of representative points of the integration area. A set may be called representative if it shows a low discrepancy. However, in...
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Protectionist industry interests stem from nondiversified individual income which derives from industry-specific factor ownership. This paper investigates how access to domestic and international asset markets moderates industry-affiliated individuals' preferences for protectionist trade...
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The paper sets up an analytical framework within which the arguments for centralized vs. decentralized tax policy can be represented and weighed against each other. Two aspects of the debate are considered: first, the global welfare effects of 'harmonizing' tax reforms are discussed when...
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Zentrales Erklärungsobjekt der Forschung zur Theorie der Firma im strategischen Management ist die Firma. Das … strategische Management kennt nicht die eine Theorie der Firma. Hinter dem gemeinsamen Forschungsziel der Erklärung der Firma steht …-nomologischen Erklärungsschema hat der Pluralismus in der Theorie der Firma seine Ursache in der Verschiedenheit der zu erklärenden Ereignisse …
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We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …
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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory …
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This paper analyzes a model in which creative activity and the security of intellectual property rights are jointly determined, both depending on the choices made by potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates of the ideas created by others and on the...
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