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A theory of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization

Zissimos, Benjamin - 2014

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Simultaneous search and network efficiency : conference paper

Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - 2013

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a bipartite network. Coordination frictions arise if workers and firms only observe their own links. We show that those frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343782

Generality, state neutrality and unemployment in the OECD

Heshmati, Almas; Karlson, Nils; Box, Marcus - In: Global economy journal : GEJ 13 (2013) 3/4, pp. 333-358

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On Ramsey equilibrium : capital ownership pattern and inefficiency

Becker, Robert Allen; Dubey, Ram Sewak; Mitra, Tapan - In: Economic theory : official journal of the Society for … 55 (2014) 3, pp. 565-600

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The efficient provision of public goods through non-distortionary tax contests

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2011

We use a simple balanced budget contest to collect taxes on a private good in order to finance a pure public good. We show that-with an appropriately chosen structure of winning probabilities-this contest can provide the public good efficiently and without distorting private consumption. We...

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Wage setting in modern labor markets : neither fair nor efficient

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2011

economic efficiency within a changing technological and social environment. Ethical evaluations of these developments diverge …, yet the view that free labor markets drive to efficiency remains undisputed. This note sets out to criticize, in a non …-technical manner, this efficiency presumption which is based on Adam Smith’s theory of wage setting. It is urged that a Smithian wage …

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When is the risk of cooperation worth taking? : the prisoner's dilemma as a game of multiple motives

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2012 - revised version: August 2013

Both in the field and in the lab, participants frequently cooperate, despite the fact that the situation can be modelled as a simultaneous, symmetric prisoner’s dilemma. This experiment manipulates the payoff in case both players defect, and explains the degree of cooperation by a combination...

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Bargaining in standing committees

Anesi, Vincent; Seidmann, Daniel J. - 2012

Committee voting has mostly been investigated from the perspective of the standard Baron-Ferejohn model of bargaining over the division of a pie, in which bargaining ends as soon as the committee reaches an agreement. In standing committees, however, existing agreements can be amended. This...

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Mine, yours or ours? : the efficiency of household investment decisions ; an experimental approach

Mani, Anandi - 2011

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Labour market programmes and the equity-efficiency trade-off

Filges, Trine; Kennes, John; Larsen, Birthe; Tranæs, Torben - In: Journal of macroeconomics 33 (2011) 4, pp. 738-753

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