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Chapter 58 Some other economic applications of the value

Mertens, Jean-François - In: Handbook of game theory with economic applications : …, (pp. 2185-2201). 2002

competition. Three models are considered: Taxation and Redistribution, Public Goods, and Fixed Prices. In each case, the value …

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Worker retraining and transfer payments : the political economy of social protection

Jain, Sanjay - 2017

redistribution and retraining - that arguably characterize many reform packages. We analyse the interaction of compensatory …. Conversely, it may be possible for an economic reform to win political support in the absence of compensatory redistribution … redistribution and retraining programmes, and demonstrate that the provision of redistributive programmes might distort incentives …

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Comparing Certification and Self-Regulation

Mysliveček, Jan - 2009

I compare certification and self-regulation, two widely used quality assurance mechanisms in markets where consumers do not observe the quality of goods. Certification is a mechanism in which an external firm offers a certificate to producers who undergo a testing procedure, issues the...

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Garcia, Kristelia - 2019

Regulatory arbitrage — defined as the manipulation of regulatory treatment for the purpose of reducing regulatory costs or increasing statutory earnings — is often seen in heavily-regulated industries. An increase in the regulatory nature of copyright, coupled with rapid technological...

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Institutional Trap

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - 2016

The author studies the persistence of inequality and inefficient governance in a physical capital accumulation model with perfect information, missing credit markets, and endogenous barriers to entry. When access to investment opportunities is regulated, rent-seeking entrepreneurs form...

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Alternative government spending rules : effects on income inequality and welfare

Lim, Guay C.; McNelis, Paul D. - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 17 (2013) 7, pp. 1496-1518

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Religious Origins of Democracies and Dictatorships

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

In this paper, I argue that religion matters for the emergence of democracies and dictatorships. Religion is defined as demand for public goods. Different types of religious collectives reflect different tradeoffs between centralized resource distribution and market rewards. Religions are...

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Chapter 17. Media Capture : Empirical Evidence

Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria - 2015

This chapter overviews the empirical literature on the determinants and the consequences of media capture, i.e., the situation in which governments or other interest groups try to control the content of media outlets. We start by examining the evidence on the effect of media capture on the...

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Should Governments Tax the Rich and Subsidize the Poor? A Comparative Study of Muslim and Christian Respondents

McGee, Robert W.; Benk, Serkan; Yuzbasi, Bahadir - 2019

This study used the most recent World Values Survey dataset to determine whether Christian and Muslim views on the acceptability of taxing the rich and subsidizing the poor was an essential feature of democracy. The sample size included more than 23,000 individuals from more than 50 countries....

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A Political Theory of Russian Orthodoxy : Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...

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