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Brothers in arms: An experiment on the alliance puzzle

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010

would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this possible solidarity among 'brothers in arms' when fighting …

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EU Solidarity and Policy in Fighting Infectious Diseases : State of Play, Obstacles, Citizen Preferences and Ways Forward

Ruijter, Anniek de - 2020

, stockpiling and allocation of medical countermeasures is a key component of true European solidarity, besides maintaining the …

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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 2017

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

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Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters

Wunsch, Conny; Strobl, Renate - 2018

Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...

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Corporate Taxation in Open Economies

Šauer, Radek - 2022

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic impact of corporate taxation. The analysis is conducted in a quantitative two-country model. In the first step, the paper describes the long-run effects of corporate taxation. A reduction in the corporate-income tax rate increases GDP, wages, consumption,...

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Market Size and Number of Firms with New Technology

Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Das, Gouranga - 2022

In this paper, unlike the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that the relationship between the size of the market and number of firms would be non-monotonic. While moderate rise in the size would force the local firms to exit and only the foreign firm rules, substantial rise in the size would...

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Philosphers and Economists Can Agree on the Intergenerational Discount Rate and Climate Policy Paths

Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; Groom, Ben - 2022

The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...

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Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes

Khaw, Mel Win; Li, Ziang; Woodford, Michael - 2022

In an experiment that elicits subjects’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on the magnitude and sign of the relative risk...

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The Costs and Benefits of Rules of Origin in Modern Free Trade Agreements

Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - 2022

We study the welfare impact of rules of origin in free trade agreements where final-good producers source customized inputs from suppliers within the trading bloc. We employ a property-rights framework that features hold-up problems in suppliers’ decisions to invest, and where underinvestment...

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Selection and Parallel Trends

Ghanem, Dalia; Sant'Anna, Pedro H. C.; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2022

One of the perceived advantages of difference-in-differences (DiD) methods is that they do not explicitly restrict how units select into treatment. However, when justifying DiD, researchers often argue that the treatment is “quasi-randomly” assigned. We investigate what selection mechanisms...

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