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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - 2008

based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …

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Climate change and the irreversibility effect: combining expected utility and MaxiMin

Lange, Andreas - 2002

This paper analyzes decisions on emissions of a stock pollutant under uncertainty in a two period model. Decisions are based on a weighted average of expected utility (EU) and the MaxiMin criterion. I first show that more weight on the worst case (less weight on EU) may lead to increased first...

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Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms: An empirical analysis of reference points near a border

Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - 2011

Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...

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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

Due to behavioral effects triggered by redistributional interventions, it is still an open question whether government policies are able to effectively reduce income inequality. We contribute to this research question by using different country-level data sources to study inequality trends in...

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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

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Climate change and the irreversibility effect: combining expected utility and MaxiMin

Lange, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097621

Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms: An empirical analysis of reference points near a border

Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003574

Matching for Credit: Identifying information asymmetries in joint-liability lending

Klein, Thilo - 2024

borrowers matching into groups exposed to similar economic shocks under JL, diminishing its effectiveness. I reconcile …

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Improving efficiency and equality in school choice

Ortega, Josue; Klein, Thilo - 2022

How should students be assigned to schools? Two mechanisms have been suggested and implemented around the world: deferred acceptance (DA) and top trading cycles (TTC). These two mechanisms are widely considered excellent choices because they are strategy-proof, in addition to DA's no justified...

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Non-standard choice in matching markets

Caspari, Gian; Khanna, Manshu - 2022

We explore the possibility of designing matching mechanisms that can accommodate non-standard choice behavior. We pin … compatible mechanisms. Our results imply that well-functioning matching markets can be designed to adequately accommodate a … the significance of our results in practice, we show that a simple modification in a commonly used matching mechanism …

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