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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … interpretation of the estimates. There is no evidence that immigrants increase crime. … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …

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Super-Additive Cooperation

Efferson, Charles; Bernhard, Helen; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2022

Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions. Intergroup competitions provide a different hypothesis that is intuitively appealing but heterodox. We show that neither mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation...

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Taxing Uber

Agrawal, David R.; Zhao, Weihua - 2023

Ride-hailing applications create new challenges for governments providing transit services, but also create new opportunities to raise tax revenue. To shed light on the effect of taxing or subsidizing ride-hailing applications, we extend a pseudo-monocentric city model to include multiple...

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Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2013

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general payoff functions. The model can be applied to several substantive issues. Here we use it to provide a novel understanding of the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in...

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Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2015

This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize the optimal joint design of the social insurance...

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Should Faustmann forecast climate change?

Gars, Johan; Spiro, Daniel - 2019

Climate change is predicted to substantially alter forest growth. Optimally, forest owners should take these future changes into account when making rotation decisions today. However, the fundamental uncertainty surrounding climate change makes predicting these shifts hard. Hence, this paper...

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R&D-Driven Medical Progress, Health Care Costs, and the Future of Human Longevity

Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018

In this paper we set up an overlapping generations model of gerontological founded human aging that takes the interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline...

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Foundations for Intertemporal Choice

al-Nowaihi, Ali; Dhami, Sanjit - 2018

We consider discounted-utility models with a reference stream of outcomes. We provide a common framework for the main empirically supported discount functions in terms of three underlying functions: The delay, speedup and generating functions. Each of the delay and speedup functions can be...

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Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution

Khieu, Hoang; Wälde, Klaus - 2019

Labour income follows a deterministic growth trend and fluctuates between two values. Interest rates are drawn initially, fluctuate between two values and can differ in their arrival rates. Low interest rates imply a stationary long-run wealth distribution, high interest rates imply exploding...

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Nonlinear Business Cycle and Optimal Policy: A VSTAR Perspective

Polito, Vito - 2020

This paper studies optimal macroeconomic policy when nonlinearity in the business cycle is described by a vector smooth transition autoregression (VSTAR). A structural identification of the VSTAR that yields a low-dimension and certainty-equivalent nonlinear quadratic regulator (NLQR) problem is...

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