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Portability of social benefits and international trade in services: Some reflections

Valdés-Prieto, Salvador - 2013

In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...

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Individual and developmental differences in the relationship of preferences and theory of mind

Leipold, Kristina; Vetter, Nora C.; Dittrich, Marcus; … - 2012

Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study … examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills …. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the impact of age on this relation. Theory of mind is measured in a …

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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?

Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2012

Recent contributions have questioned whether biofuels policies actually lead to emissions reductions, and thus lower climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard. Opposed to most previous studies we...

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Market segmentation in two-sided markets: TV rights for Premier League

Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars - 2013

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...

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Human capital accumulation and the macroeconomy in an ageing society

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2012

How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answer this question we build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model of a closed economy featuring endogenous factor prices. Finitely-lived individuals are endowed with perfect foresight...

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Tradable immigration quotas

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for individuals and governments who care about world...

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Auctions vs. negotiations: The case of favoritism

Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2012

We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement mechanism is delegated to an agent of the buyer. The agent has private information about the buyer's preferences and may collude with one of the sellers. We provide a precise...

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Intra-group heterogeneity in collective contests

Nitzan, Shmuel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2013

Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too large and too few in number in uncoordinated...

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Leakage, welfare, and cost-effectiveness of carbon policy

Baylis, Kathy; Fullerton, Don; Karney, Dan - 2013

We extend the model of Fullerton, Karney, and Baylis (2012 working paper) to explore cost-effectiveness of unilateral climate policy in the presence of leakage. We ignore the welfare gain from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus on the welfare cost of the emissions tax or permit scheme....

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