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This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine spillover effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision...
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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This paper studies the impact of collaboration on research output. First, we build a micro founded model for scientific knowledge production, where collaboration between researchers is represented by a bipartite network. The equilibrium of the game incorporates both the complementarity effect...
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This paper investigates the international spillovers of government debt and the associated risk of inflation within a …
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spillovers occur only with Nikkei 225 futures. The policy implications of the findings are also discussed. …
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spillovers are substantial, and when goods are not too differentiated. The range of cases for which total surplus under Cournot …
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Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation … spillovers by 2014. Moreover, children of treated parents complete an extra 0.12 years of schooling on average, an investment … this and other policy reforms: ignoring parent-to-child spillovers understates the long-run cost savings of the Dutch …
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The consequences of granting democratic rights to citizens in otherwise authoritarian regimes has been extensively studied. Much less is know about the implications of retracting these rights when a government wants to recentralize power. Autonomous governance in rural China, introduced in the...
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This paper estimates Nash-type fiscal reaction functions for European governments competing for revenue from diesel excises. It appears that European governments strategically set their excise levels by responding to their neighbors’ tax rates. This provides evidence for the presence of tax...
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This paper analyzes enhanced cooperation agreements in corporate taxation in a three country tax competition model where countries differ in size. We characterize equilibrium tax rates and the optimal tax responses due to the formation of an enhanced cooperation agreement. Conditions for...
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