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Collaborative Cross-Border Procurement in the EU : Future or Utopia?

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2016

Collaborative public procurement has been gaining traction in recent years and could be considered at the spearhead of public procurement reform and innovation. The 2014 reform of the EU public procurement rules (mainly Directive 2014/24) has expanded the tool-kit available to contracting...

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Social Capture of US and EU Competition Policy : A Lesson from the Global Financial Crisis

Broulík, Jan - 2021

Against the background of growing discontent over excessive leniency of US and EU competition policy, this article argues that the policy displays characteristics corresponding to those that brought about the social capture of financial policy co-responsible for the late 2000s global crisis. The...

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Optimal carbon leakage

Hokkanen, Topi - 2023

Carbon leakage is one of the major issues facing policymakers today when designing environmental regulation. While the empirical and trade literature on carbon leakage is rich, much less is known about the implications of carbon leakage risk on optimal regulatory policies under asymmetric...

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A Tax-Systems Perspective on Recent Global Tax Initiatives

Neubig, Thomas S. - 2017

We present four important dimensions to international tax policy from a tax-systems perspective, stressing that non-rate/base tax policies can have different cross-jurisdictional spillover effects than changes in tax rates. The dimensions are the allocation of global income among taxing...

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The truth-telling of truth-seekers : evidence from online experiments with scientists

Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Voss, Rüdiger - 2024

Academic honesty is crucial for scientific advancement, yet replication crises and misconduct scandals are omnipresent. We provide evidence on scientists' truth-telling from two incentivized coin-tossing experiments with more than 1,300 scientists. Experiment I, with predominantly European and...

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Learning the law

Engel, Christoph - 2004

psychology of learning, and work form social scientists on learning.The paper makes the following claim: typically the law … reaches its addressees indirectly. The law is not followed, it is learned. There are two distinct learning objects. Throughout … take the form of schema-like social mirror rules, or of exemplars.Learning also is the key to understanding how individuals …

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Regulating Global Externalities

Heijmans, Roweno - 2019

The question in which we are interested is how a market inhabited by multiple agents, about whom we are differentially uncertain, and who trade goods the use of which imposes a negative effect on others, is to be ideally regulated. We show that a priori asymmetric uncertainty, when combined with...

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The Economics of Privacy

Acquisti, Alessandro; Taylor, Curtis R.; Wagman, Liad - 2021

This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of theoretical and empirical research on the economics of privacy. We focus on the economic value and consequences of protecting and disclosing personal information, and on consumers' understanding and decisions regarding the...

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Firm Commitments

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A growing fraction of companies globally have made commitments to reduce their carbon emissions by a certain date. While the companies that make commitments subsequently reduce their emissions, the effect on overall emissions of companies (including those that do not commit) has been small; the...

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The United Nations Global Compact : an institutionalist perspective

Berliner, Daniel; Prakash, Aseem - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 122 (2014) 2, pp. 217-223

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