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Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection
Jain, Sanjay - 2017
redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …
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Reapportionment and Redistribution : Consequences of Electoral Reform in Japan
Horiuchi, Yusaku; Saito, Jun - 2011
by focusing on reapportionment associated with the electoral reform in Japan. First, we show that the reform of 1994 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184145
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The App Economy versus Vested Interests
Weber, Cameron - 2017
Creative Destruction is the name Joseph Schumpeter gave to a significant change in technology which dislodges old technology into new technology and which leads to increasing economic growth and higher standards of living. This paper proposes that the current New Economy, or the App, Gig,...
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Elastic contests and the robustness of the all-pay auction
Ewerhart, Christian - 2014
This paper studies a large class of imperfectly discriminating contests, referred to as elastic contests, that induce players to either overbid a standing bid or to abstain from bidding altogether. Many common forms of contest are elastic. In any equilibrium of an elastic contest, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282491
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Rent-seeking games and the all-pay auction
Ewerhart, Christian - 2015
This paper considers rent-seeking games in which a small percentage change in a player's bid has a large percentage impact on her odds of winning, i.e., on the ratio of her respective probabilities of winning and losing. An example is the Tullock contest with a high R. The analysis provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282520
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Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction
Ewerhart, Christian - 2016
, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663167
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Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction
Ewerhart, Christian - 2017
licensing, political lobbying, electoral competition, optimally biased contests, the empirical analysis of rent-seeking, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784281
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Elastic contests and the robustness of the all-pay auctions
Ewerhart, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
This paper studies a large class of imperfectly discriminating contests, referred to as elastic contests, that induce players to either overbid a standing bid or to abstain from bidding altogether. Many common forms of contest are elastic. In any equilibrium of an elastic contest, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817262
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Economia de război: concepte, evoluţie şi instrumente
Alexandru, Georgescu - In: Revista OEconomica (2012) 03
Throughout human history, polities have found it necessary to devote resources towards maintaining security from other polities or to prosecute a war against them. This paper explores the evolution of the war economy, as well as the circumstances which mandated and instruments which allowed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965601
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Rent-seeking games and the all-pay auction
Ewerhart, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2015
This paper considers rent-seeking games in which a small percentage change in a player's bid has a large percentage impact on her odds of winning, i.e., on the ratio of her respective probabilities of winning and losing. An example is the Tullock contest with a high R. The analysis provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145357