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作者：Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H.; von Ehrlich, Maximilian
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Warwick; University of Munich
摘要：The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a per capita GDP level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget. This rule gives rise to a regression-discontinuity design that exploits the discrete jump in the probability of EU transfer receipt at the 75% threshold for identification of causal effects of Objective...
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作者：Raimondos-Moller, Pascalis; Schmitt, Nicolas
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Simon Fraser University
摘要：We examine the interaction between commodity taxes and parallel imports in a two-country model with imperfect competition While governments determine non-cooperatively their commodity tax rate. the volume of parallel imports is determined endogenously by the retailing sector We compare the positive and normative implications of having commodity taxes based oil destination or origin principle We show that, as the volume of parallel imports increases. non-cooperative origin taxes converge, while...
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作者：Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker
作者单位：University of Freiburg; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Paderborn; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor to the rich region is accompanied by stronger incentives to acquire skills even for immobile workers. Regional shocks tend to affect both regions in a symmetric fashion, and skill-biased technological ch...
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作者：Tra, Constant I.
作者单位：Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
摘要：This study develops a discrete choice locational equilibrium model to evaluate the benefits of the an quality improvements that occurred in the Los Angeles area following the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) The discrete choice equilibrium approach accounts for the fact that air quality improvements brought about by the 1990 CAAA will change housing choices and prices The study also provides new evidence for the distributional welfare impacts of the 1990 CAAA in the Los Angeles area Findin...
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作者：Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; Rasul, Imran
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Arizona; Stanford University; University of Chicago; Universidade de Sao Paulo
摘要：We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of heads and spouses in conjunction with the Spanish naming convention to identify the inter- and intra-generational family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research design of the PROGRESA evaluation ...
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作者：Braid, Ralph M.
作者单位：Wayne State University
摘要：This paper examines the provision of a pure local public good in jurisdictions that are spaced evenly along an infinite line. Each jurisdiction either supplies the local public good, or else its residents travel to another jurisdiction to consume the local public good. The equilibrium spacing between jurisdictions which supply the local public good, which can be uneven (varying between a minimum spacing and a maximum spacing for given exogenous parameters), can be greater than, equal to, or le...
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作者：Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans
作者单位：Middlebury College
摘要：Data from a recent field experiment suggests that differences in participation rates are responsible for much of the variations in charity auction revenues across formats. We provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of this and other related results. The model illustrates the limits of previous results that assume full participation and introduces some new considerations to the choice of auction mechanism. It also implies, however, that the data cannot be explained in terms of particip...
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作者：Eriksen, Michael D.; Rosenthal, Stuart S.
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Since its inception in 1987, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has ballooned into the largest ever source of subsidized construction of low-income housing in the United States, accounting for one-third of all recent multi-family rental construction. This paper examines the crowd out effects of this increasingly important source of low-moderate income housing. To do so, we analyze the impact of LIHTC construction at three different levels of geography, MSA, county, and 10-mile r...
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作者：Schildberg-Hoerisch, Hannah
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Bonn
摘要：We implement the Rawlsian veil of ignorance in the laboratory. Our design allows analyzing the effects of risk and social preferences behind the veil of ignorance. Behind the veil of ignorance subjects choose more equal distributions than in front of the veil, but only a minority acts according to maximin preferences. Many subjects prefer more equal allocations not only for insurance purposes but also due to impartial social preferences for equality. Our results imply that behind the veil of i...
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作者：Egger, Peter; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Smart, Michael
作者单位：University of Toronto; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Copenhagen
摘要：According to theory, capacity equalization grants cause local governments to internalize the effects of their tax policies on revenues of neighboring jurisdictions and so raise equilibrium tax rates. This paper empirically analyzes the incentive effects of equalizing transfers on business tax policy by exploiting a natural experiment in the state of Lower Saxony which changed its equalization formula as of 1999. We resort to within-state and across-state difference-in-difference estimates to i...
