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Commodity tax structure under uncertainty in a perfectly competitive market

Goerke, Laszlo - 2011

In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on output for a specific (unit) tax can enhance welfare in imperfectly competitive markets and is without impact in a competitive world. This paper demonstrates that a substitution...

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Withering academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of 'university …

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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011

measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …

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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods

Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011

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Price competition and reputation in credence goods markets: Experimental evidence

Mimra, Wanda; Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2016

customers. As experts provide both diagnosis and treatment, this leaves scope for fraud. We experimentally investigate how … to defraud his customers when the expert can build up reputation. We show that the level of fraud is significantly higher … competition. More customer information does not necessarily decrease the level of fraud. …

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What drives fraud in a credence goods market? Evidence from a field study

Rasch, Alexander; Waibel, Christian - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of four key economic variables on an expert firm’s incentive to defraud its customers in a credence goods market: the level of competition, the expert firm’s financial situation, its competence, and its reputational concerns. We use and complement the...

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Do newspaper articles on card fraud affect debit card usage?

Kosse, Anneke - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of newspaper publications about debit card skimming fraud on debit card usage in the … phenomenon of skimming fraud significantly affect the number of debit card payments. The direction of the effect depends on the … type of skimming fraud addressed. Newspaper articles on fraud at points-of-sale (POS) and ticket machines depress the …

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Equilibrium Selection under Different Learning Modes in Supermodular Games

Kaarboe, Oddvar M.; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999

We apply the dynamic stochastic framework proposed by recent evolutionaryliterature to the class of strict supermodular games when two simplebehavior rules coexist in the population, imitation and myopic optimization. We assume that myopic optimizers are able to see how well their payoff...

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Learning from Other Economies - for example from Somewhere Down Under

Freeman, Richard B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 33-37

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Sustaining social security

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martin; Niepelt, Dirk - 2005

This paper analyzes the sustainability of intergenerational transfers in politico-economic equilibrium. Embedding electoral competition for the votes of old and young households in the standard Diamond (1965) OLG model, we find that intergenerational transfers naturally arise in a Markov perfect...

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