Essential characteristics of corruption are (1) a reciprocity relationship between briber and public official, (2) negative external effects to others, and (3) high penalties for the parties involved in case of discovery. We separate the behavioural influences of these factors in a laboratory...

This paper provides an investigation of the post-entry selection among newly founded firms either via voluntary liquidation or via forced bankruptcy liquidation for the period since the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. The exit decision of newly founded firms is discussed in the...

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The work of Card and Krueger has cast doubt on the nature of the relationship between the minimum wage and teenage employment. The earlier "consensus" finding of a small but statistically significant negative effect was based on time series data whereas Card and Krueger's findings are based...

The paper shows that fighting corruption with leniency programs -- reductions of the legal sanctions for wrongdoers who spontaneously report to law enforcers -- may be highly counterproductive. These programs are typically ``moderate,'' in the sense of only reducing, or at best cancelling the...

This paper presents new instrumental variables estimators for nonparametric models with discrete endogenous regressors. The model specification is sufficiently general to include structural models, triangular simultaneous equations and certain models of measurement error. One motivation of the...

We consider the portfolio delegation problem in a world with complete contingent claim markets. A principal hires an agent to manage a portfolio. When the agent has limited liability (that is, there is a lower bound on the compensation contract), she may have an incentive to take on excessive...

The ability to restrict access to distribution channels or input suppliers is commonly thought to be a barrier to entry. Many have argued that a monopolist can use vertical integration as means of foreclosing entry. We consider a duopoly market and ask whether duopolists who control access to...

This paper proposes a dynamic theory of adjustment of labor force to a shock that makes existing human capital stock obsolete. Workers will not invest in the new, superior skills because their current value depends on the existing complementary stock of human capital, and the obsolete...

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