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centralized solution. In addition the regions have strategic incentives to set user charges. If the regional spillover goods are …
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This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...
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We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompass both bureaucratic delegation from a government...
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … representation of the French tax-benefit system. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a notable role in determining …
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actors provide powerful incentives and become superior when there are some fair-minded players. The principals understand … enforcement power of explicit and implicit incentives. This contract preference is associated with the fact that explicit … incentives weaken the enforcement power of implicit bonus incentives significantly. Our results are largely consistent with …
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economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than … complement, or even substitute for, monetary incentives. While we discuss awards in the context of academia, our conclusions …
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provision of incentives. Relative price and income effects are shown to be identifiable and strong. A number of empirically …
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and moral hazard. Forgetting a default typically makes incentives worse, ex-ante, because it reduces the punishment for … increases the incentive to exert effort to preserve this reputation. Our key result is that if (i) borrowers’ incentives are …
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&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries’ profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after …
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Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
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