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Incentives, globalization, and redistribution

Ferey, Antoine; Haufler, Andreas; Perroni, Carlo - 2022 - This version: July 2022

We offer a new explanation for why taxes have become less redistributive in many countries in parallel with an increase in income concentration. When performance-based contracts are needed to incentivize effort, redistribution through progressive income taxes becomes less precisely targeted....

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Coupled lotteries : a new method to analyze inequality aversion

Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2019

more risk averse, to having social status concerns, and to relying more often on formal and informal insurance. However …

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Klimapolitik zwischen Markt, Deliberation und Hegemonie : der Emissionshandel und das Politische

Frick, Marc; Huwe, Vera - 2020

Das Instrument des Emissionshandelssystems (EHS) wird von Umweltökonom:innen an prominenter Stelle zur Bewältigung der ökologischen Krisen sowohl im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs als auch in der Politikberatung empfohlen. Wir arbeiten drei implizite normative Prämissen des Lehrbuchmodells eines...

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Optimal Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the analysis highlights paths for further investigation....

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The 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in contract theory

Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their path breaking work.

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The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Levitt, Steven D. - 2016

We test the effect of performance-based incentives on educational achievement in a low-performing school district using a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an achievement standard based on multiple measures of performance...

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Taxes and the division of social status

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2023

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Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History

Aizenman, Joshua - 2006

leader in basic research. Our study is based on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global …

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Prizes and Productivity : How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output

Borjas, George J. - 2013

Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The...

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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

This paper provides novel field-experimental evidence on status goods. We work with an Indonesian bank that markets … exceeds demand for a nondescript control product with identical benefits, suggesting demand for the pure status aspect of the … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status …

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