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作者：Chaurey, Ritam
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：While policies targeting particular geographic regions are widely used by governments, there have been few rigorous evaluations of their causal impacts. In this paper, I study the impact of a location-based tax incentive scheme in India. Using aggregated and firm-level panel data, I find large increases in employment, total output, fixed capital, and the number of firms as a result of the program. These increases are due to both the growth of existing firms as well as the entry of new firms. T...
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作者：Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R.
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Cornell University
摘要：This paper provides an analytical framework and uses data from the U.S. and Germany to test for the existence of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sick leave insurance. The first part exploits high-frequency Google Flu data and the staggered implementation of U.S. sick pay mandates to show, using a reduced-form framework, that population-level influenza-like disease rates decrease after employees gain access to paid sick leave. Next, a simple theoretical framework provides ...
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作者：Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M.
作者单位：University of Warwick; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; Columbia University
摘要：Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide whether to exert effort and receive a reward based on their relative performance. Hence, sharing can...
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作者：Brown, Jeffrey R.; Poterba, James; Richardson, David P.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This paper investigates how the one-year suspension in 2009 of the Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) rules associated with qualified retirement plans affected the distribution elections of participants at a large retirement services provider. Roughly one third of those who were affected by the RMD rules in 2008 discontinued their distributions in 2009. The suspension probabilities of those for whom 2008 distributions equaled the RMD amount, a plausible indication that the RMD rules were a bi...
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作者：Dowd, Tim; Landefeld, Paul; Moore, Anne
作者单位：Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
摘要：We analyze the profit shifting behavior of U.S. multinational firms using a unique panel data set of U.S. tax returns over the period 2002-2012. Prior research has found significant effects of tax rates in affiliate and parent countries on the profit shifting behavior of multinational entities, with semi-elasticities ranging from close to zero to well above one. We build on this prior work by allowing more heterogeneity in response across the distribution of tax rates and by including affiliat...
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作者：Diekert, Florian K.
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; University of Oslo
摘要：This paper presents a tractable dynamic game in which agents jointly use a resource. The resource replenishes fully but collapses irreversibly if the total use exceeds a threshold. The threshold is assumed to be constant, but its location may be unknown. Consequently, an experiment to increase the level of safe resource use will only reveal whether the threshold has been crossed or not. If the consequence of crossing the threshold is disastrous (i.e., independent of how far the threshold has b...
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作者：Einav, Liran; Finkelstein, Amy; Schrimpf, Paul
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of British Columbia
摘要：A large literature in empirical public finance relies on bunching to identify a behavioral response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to be used counterfactually. We conduct this type of analysis in the context of prescription drug insurance for the elderly in Medicare Part D, where a kink in the individual's budget set generates substantial bunching in annual drug expenditure around the famous donut bile. We show that different alternative economi...
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作者：Che, Jiahua; Chung, Kim-Sau; Lu, Yang K.
作者单位：Fudan University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Politicians' career paths often start at some subnational governments and end at the national one. Allocation of authorities among national and subnational governments affects (i) how tempting the prospects of taking national offices are, and hence how strong bureaucrats' political career concerns are, and (ii)whether the incentives generated by these political career concerns can be put into productive use at subnational governments. We illustrate this tradeoff in determining the optimal degr...
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作者：Daniele, Gianmarco; Dipoppa, Gemma
作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Organized crime uses political violence to influence politics in a wide set of countries. This paper exploits a novel dataset of attacks directed towards Italian local politicians to study how (and why) criminal organizations use violence against them. We test two complementary theories to predict the use of violence i) before elections, to affect the electoral outcome; and ii) after elections, to influence politicians from the beginning of their term. We provide causal evidence in favor of th...
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作者：Long, Xin; Pelloni, Alessandra
作者单位：Asian Development Bank; University of Rome Tor Vergata
摘要：We consider the optimal factor income taxation in a standard R&D model with technical change represented by an increase in the variety of intermediate goods. In the model there are externalities both to working and to saving, due to market power by firms, incomplete appropriability of the benefits of inventions and the cost of economic activity in terms of public expenditures. Redistributing the tax burden from labor to capital will increase employment but, in most cases, reduce the rate of gr...
