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Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2014

Recognizing spam as a pollution problem points to a market-based approach that could be more effective than prior approaches based on either technology or law. Combining insights from externality economics and information asymmetry, I argue that an imperfect market can create more value for...

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An economic response to unsolicited communication

Van Alstyne, Marshall; Loder, Thede C.; Walsh, Rick - 2011

If communication involves some transactions cost to both sender and recipient, what policy ensures that correct messages - those with positive social surplus - get sent? Filters block messages that harm recipients but benefit senders by more than transactions costs. Taxes can block positive...

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Signaling and Indirect Taxation

Truyts, Tom - 2010

bundle communicates about their qualities (or .identity.) to spectators. We investigate optimal indirect taxation when … consumption choices are motivated by two sorts of concerns: intrinsic consumption and costly signaling. Optimal indirect taxes are … introduced into a monotonic signaling game with a finite typespace of consumers. We provide sufficient conditions for the …

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Tax Compliance Games with Imperfect Auditing.

Bardsley, P. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1997

Tax compliance is modelled as a Bayesian Nash equilibrium in a costly state verification game with imperfect auditing. Neither the tax payer nor the auditor can measure the tax payer's true liability precisely: they observe independent noisy signals.

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Why are the Data at Odds with Theory? Growth and (Re-)Distributive Policies in Integrated Economies.

Rehme, G. - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 1999

Many theoretical model show that redistribution causes low growth. However, cross-country regressions often suggest that growth is positively related to redistribution. This paper analyzes that puzzle in an open economy framework.

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Sound taxation? : on the use of self-declared value

Haan, Marco; Heijnen, Pim; Schoonbeek, Lambert; … - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 2, pp. 205-215

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Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: An Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper, a much revised version of an earlier paper (with different tables), seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort...

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Optimal redistribution in the presence of signaling

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in … the latter case firms have an informational advantage vis-a-vis the government. The dual role of income taxation in …

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Signaling cooperation

Heinz, Matthias; Schumacher, Heiner - 2015

We examine what an applicantś vita signals to potential employers about her willingness to cooperate in teams. Intensive social engagement may credibly reveal that an applicant cares about the well-being of others and therefore is less likely to free-ride in teamwork situations. We find that...

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Too cool for school? : signaling and countersignaling

Feltovich, Nick; Harbaugh, Rick; To, Ted - 1999

In signaling environments ranging from consumption to education, high quality senders often shun the standard signals …

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