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Should tax policy favor high- or low-productivity firms?

Langenmayr, Dominika; Haufler, Andreas; Bauer, … - 2012

Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue 'pick-the-winner' strategies by subsidizing highly productive firms more, or taxing them less, than their less productive counterparts. We appraise this argument by studying the optimal choice of effective tax...

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Regional implications of financial market development: Credit rationing, trade, and location

von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

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Evaluation of long-dated investments under uncertain growth trend, volatility and catastrophes

Gollier, Christian - 2012

Because of the uncertainty about how to model the growth process of our economy, there is still much confusion about which discount rates should be used to evaluate actions having long-lasting impacts, as in the contexts of climate change, social security reforms or large public infrastructures...

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Learning abatement costs: On the dynamics of optimal regulation of experience goods

Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - 2012

We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...

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Generalized propensity scores for multiple continuous treatment variables

Egger, Peter H.; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2013

This paper illustrates that the generalized propensity score method can easily be applied with multiple continuous endogenous treatment variables. Consistency proofs carry over straightforwardly to this general case, and the approach is shown to work well in finite samples with various...

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Loss aversion and ex post inefficient renegotiation

Herweg, Fabian; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

We propose a theory of ex post inefficient renegotiation that is based on loss aversion. When two parties write a long … renegotiated outcome sticky and materially inefficient. The theory has important implications for the optimal design of long …

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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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Market structure and the cost of capital

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; … - 2013

We contribute to the finance literature in two main ways. First, we present a theoretical capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to price assets in different market structures. Second, we use our model to analyze whether when markets are partially segmented using the local or the global CAPM yields...

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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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