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作者：Asplund, Marcus; Friberg, Richard; Wilander, Fredrik
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Royal Institute of Technology
摘要：An important issue for commodity taxation is the extent to which changes in foreign taxes affect the extent of cross-border shopping and thereby, domestic tax revenue. We use data from Swedish municipalities to estimate how responsive alcohol sales are to foreign prices, and relate the sensitivity to the location's distance to the border. Typical results suggest that the elasticity with respect to the foreign price is around 0.3 in the border region; moving 150 (400) km inland reduces the cros...
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作者：Gruber, Jonathan; Hungerman, Daniel M.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Interest in religious organizations as providers of social services has increased dramatically in recent years. Churches in the U.S. were a crucial provider of social services through the early part of the twentieth century, but their role shrank dramatically with the expansion in government spending under the New Deal. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the New Deal crowded-out church charitable spending in the 1930s. We do so using a new nationwide data set of charitable spend...
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作者：Buetler, Monika; Teppa, Federica
作者单位：University of St Gallen; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：This paper uses unique micro data from Swiss employer-based pension plans to study the annuitization decision at retirement. The administrative nature of our data, though limited with respect to individual background characteristics, allows us to analyze real choices over large retirement balances, rather than subjectively reported intentions to annuitize. We find a strong and robust impact of a utility-based measure of the annuity's value (computed within a life-cycle framework) on individual...
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作者：Gueth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Sutter, Matthias; Van der Heijden, Eline
作者单位：University of Innsbruck; Max Planck Society; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：We examine the effects of leading by example in voluntary contribution experiments. Leadership is implemented by letting one group member contribute to the public good before followers do. Such leadership increases contributions in comparison to the standard voluntary contribution mechanism, especially so when it goes along with authority in the form of granting the leader exclusion power. Whether leadership is fixed or rotating among group members has no significant influence on contributions...
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作者：van Rooij, Maarten C. J.; Kool, Clemens J. M.; Prast, Henriette M.
作者单位：Utrecht University; Tilburg University
摘要：This paper presents new evidence for the Netherlands on pension preferences and investor autonomy in the pension domain using a representative survey of about 1000 Dutch citizens. Our main conclusions are the following. Risk aversion is domain dependent and highest in the pension domain. The vast majority of respondents favours the currently dominant defined benefit pension system. If offered a combined defined benefit/defined contribution system, the majority would like to have a guaranteed p...
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作者：Che, Jiahua; Facchini, Giovanni
作者单位：University of Milan; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：The dual track approach to market liberalization has been widely recognized as the key to the success of the Chinese economic reform. In this paper we study the effectiveness of this strategy in economic environments where the status quo government control is incomplete. We show that in a dynamic context contractual arbitrage will emerge, potentially resulting in efficiency losses and/or adverse distributional effects. By establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for the dual track app...
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作者：Cornes, Richard; Hartley, Roger
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Manchester
摘要：We suggest an alternative way of analyzing the canonical Bergstrom-Blume-Varian model of noncooperative voluntary contributions to a public good that avoids the proliferation of dimensions as the number of players is increased. We exploit this approach to analyze models in which the aggregate level of public good is determined as a more general social composition function of individual gifts - specifically, as a CES form - rather than as an unweighted sum. We also analyze Hirshleifer's weakest...
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作者：Adams, Scott
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Pure community rating, which was enacted to improve access to health insurance in New York's small group market in 1993, prevents carriers from charging different premiums based on the ages of a firm's workers. If small firms were adjusting compensation packages prior to reform to offset higher health care costs of older workers, then community rating could lead to greater relative wages for older workers post reform and not necessarily induce adverse selection that results in changes in who i...
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作者：Figlio, David N.; Kenny, Lawrence W.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：This paper is the first to systematically document the relationship between individual teacher performance incentives and student achievement using the United States data. We combine data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey on schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This survey on teacher incentives has unique data on frequency and magnitude of merit raises and bonuses, teacher evaluation, and teacher term...
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作者：Koethenbuerger, Marko
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：This paper analyzes whether changes in the timing of equalizing transfers to state governments necessitate an adjustment in federal corrective policy. According to the existing literature (assuming an ex-ante choice of transfers), the corrective grant is equal to the marginal damage/benefit inflicted by externality generation. When the federal government accommodates state finances ex-post, the grant differs in formula from existing prescription. Allocative federal policy corrects state policy...
