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Why high-level executives earn less in the governmental than in the private sector

Glazer, Amihai; Konishi, Hideki - 2023

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The political timing of tax policy : evidence from U.S. states

Chang, Andrew C.; Cohen, Linda Rachel; Glazer, Amihai; … - 2025

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Rational drivers and the choice between congestion tolls and tradeable permits : a political economy model

De Borger, Bruno L.; Glazer, Amihai; Proost, Stef - 2021

People who anticipate the introduction of a policy can adapt their behavior, perhaps in ways that make the policy ineffective and exacerbate the problem to be addressed. This paper develops a political economy model to study strategic behavior related to the introduction of congestion policies,...

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Rational Drivers and the Choice between Congestion Tolls and Tradeable Permits : A Political Economy Model

De Borger, Bruno L.; Glazer, Amihai; Proost, Stef - 2021

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Rational Drivers and the Choice Between Congestion Tolls and Tradeable Permits: A Political Economy Model

De Borger, Bruno L.; Glazer, Amihai; Proost, Stef - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492967

How a Firm Can Induce Legislators to Adopt a Bad Policy

Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2021

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representative support the policy. In...

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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

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Subsidizing Enjoyable Education

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2021

We provide an explanation for why both college tuition and government grants to college students are typically means-tested. The critical idea is that attending college is both an investment good and a consumption good. The consumption benefit from education implies that, when tuition and grants...

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The Desire for Impact

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2021

This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...

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Optimal Incentive Contracts for a Worker Who Envies His Boss

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2021

A worker's utility may increase with his own income, but envy can make his utility decline with his employer's income. Such behavior may call for high-powered incentives, so that increased effort by the worker little increases the income of his employer. This paper uses a principal-agent model...

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