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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011

The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...

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Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass

Bierbrauer, Felix J.; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2010

We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the...

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The empirics of general equilibrium trade theory: What have we learned?

Bernhofen, Daniel - 2010

data. Three lessons stand out. First, competitive and new trade theory models are complementary rather than competing ways … for structural estimation regarding the pattern of international specialization. Third, empirical confirmations of the … core predictions of the model provide scientific support for employing the competitive trade model in structural estimation. …

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The impact of financial market frictions on trade flows, capital flows and economic development

Bougheas, Spiros; Falvey, Rod - 2011

We introduce financial frictions in a two sector model of international trade with heterogeneous agents. The level of specialization in the economy (economic development) depends on the quality of financial institutions. Underdeveloped financial markets prohibit an economy to specialize in...

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Higher order expectations, illiquidity, and short-term trading

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2011

We propose a theory that jointly accounts for an asset illiquidity and for the asset price potential over-reliance on … price risk and illiquidity. Therefore, a highly illiquid market implies higher expected returns from contrarian strategies …

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Asymmetric taxation and performance-based incentive contracts

Niemann, Rainer - 2011

This paper analyzes the effects of symmetric and asymmetric taxation on performance-based versus fixed remuneration contracts. I integrate a proportional corporation tax and a proportional wage tax into a binary principal-agent model. The wage tax increases the remuneration costs and makes the...

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Selection biases in complementary R&D projects

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko - 2011

This paper analyzes selection biases in the project choice of complementary technologies that are used in combination to produce a final product. In the presence of complementary technologies, patents allow innovating firms to hold up rivals who succeed in developing other system components....

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The cult of statistical significance

Krämer, Walter - 2010

This article takes issue with a recent book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) of the same title. Ziliak and McCloskey argue that statistical significance testing is a barrier rather than a booster for empirical research in many fields and should therefore be abandoned altogether. The present...

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Discounting, inequalities and economic convergence

Gollier, Christian - 2010

, in the absence of any risk-sharing scheme. We consider an economy in which the initial consumption level and the … distribution of consumption growth are heterogeneous. The benchmark case is when inequalities are permanent and relative risk … aversion is constant. The discount rate is not affected by inequalities in that case. We first relax the assumption on risk …

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Incentives for environmental R&D

Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011

Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...

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