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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...

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The German 3G Licence Auction: Did the Government's Stake in Deutsche Telekom Influence the Outcome?

Rander, Robin - 2004

The spectrum for third generation (3G) mobile communications for the German market was alloted to operators by means of an auction. This resulted in a highly competitive outcome: six operators were given rights to provide 3G services. Government revenues from this auction were a staggering EUR...

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Monopolistic screening under learning by doing

Gärtner, Dennis - 2007

This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...

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Telecommunications regulation and new services: A case study at the state level

Prieger, James E. - 2000

The effects that regulation has on the innovation and the introduction of new telecommunications services have not been … previously quantified in the literature. This study compares state-regulated services in Indiana under rate of return regulation … (RoRR) and under alternative regulation. The econometric model comprises an count process (for innovation) followed by a …

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Auditor Independence and NAS : A Comparative Analysis of Selected Current Regulatory Frameworks

Islam, Ainul - 2012

There is a widespread public perception that the provision of NAS undermines auditor independence. In order to protect auditor independence, the regulatory frameworks of many countries include regulations and guidelines which auditors are required to observe. This paper provides a comparative...

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Elastic contests and the robustness of the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2014

This paper studies a large class of imperfectly discriminating contests, referred to as elastic contests, that induce players to either overbid a standing bid or to abstain from bidding altogether. Many common forms of contest are elastic. In any equilibrium of an elastic contest, there is...

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Rent-seeking games and the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2015

This paper considers rent-seeking games in which a small percentage change in a player's bid has a large percentage impact on her odds of winning, i.e., on the ratio of her respective probabilities of winning and losing. An example is the Tullock contest with a high R. The analysis provides a...

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Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2016

This paper considers all-pay contests in which the relationship between bids and allocation reflects a small amount of noise. Prior work had focused on one particular equilibrium. However, there may be other equilibria. To address this issue, we introduce a new and intuitive measure for the...

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Contests with small noise and the robustness of the all-pay auction

Ewerhart, Christian - 2017

This paper considers all-pay contests in which the relationship between bids and allocations reflects a small amount of noise. Prior work had focused on one particular equilibrium. However, there may be other equilibria. To address this issue, we introduce a new and intuitive measure for the...

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Licensing with free entry

Doganoglu, Toker; Inceoglu, Firat; Muthers, Johannes - 2018

We introduce a fairly general licensing model with an endogenous industry structure - in terms of number of active firms - and general licensing contracts. We show that when the patentee can employ contracts that can condition on market entry or price, it can implement an outcome that yields...

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