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Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions. Intergroup competitions provide a different hypothesis that is intuitively appealing but heterodox. We show that neither mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation...
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Markets for credence goods are classified by experts alone being able to identify consumers' problems and determine appropriate services for solution. Examining a market where experts have to invest in costly diagnosis to correctly identify problems and consumers being able to visit multiple...
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We study local government incentives to misreport the information required to implement a formula grant. We focus specifically on population, in theory the easiest variable for the grantor to verify. We analyze the Spanish case and show how a switch from the use of census to registered...
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-quality and population-wide tax register data from South Africa. We use the bunching method to analyse how these discontinuities …. We also study the effects of two separate corporate income tax rate kinks. We find sizable bunching at each of these …
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strong responses to work incentives as I observe excess mass -"bunching"- right below the exemption threshold where the … marginal tax on earnings is low. A puzzling observation is that individuals continue bunching at the former threshold after the … bunching at the new and former threshold to estimate adjustment costs that vary by individuals' ability to work. The estimated …
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We first provide evidence of some retail investors taking real trading (selling) decisions which are clearly sub-optimal even from an ex-ante perspective. We then show that these investors also exhibit stronger investment biases, namely, the disposition effect, underdiversification, preference...
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staying small and therefore bunching just below the threshold. To mitigate the potential distortions of payroll tax, the … emerge are: 1. Firms generally do not bunch below the payroll tax threshold. 2. The limited bunching in Victoria, which had …
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, which masks the bunching at kink points normally associated with a positive labor supply elasticity under standard theory …
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allows (i) predictions of the determinants of voluntary registration and bunching at the registration threshold; (ii … intensity of input use and negatively related to the share of B2C transactions. There is bunching at the VAT threshold, and the … amount of bunching is negatively related to the intensity of input use and positively related to the share of B2C …
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