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作者：Widmann, Rainer
摘要：This paper studies the relationship between local personal income tax rates and the attractiveness of municipalities as residential locations for immigrant inventors in Switzerland. Exploiting sharp differ-ences in top income tax rates across state borders, I find an elasticity of the probability that an inventor takes residence in a border municipality with respect to the top net-of-tax rate of around 3.2. Additional evidence suggests that inventors' residential location choices are consequen...
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作者：Sarmiento, Luis; Waegner, Nicole; Zaklan, Aleksandar
作者单位：Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC); Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; Leibniz Association; RWI - Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：This study provides the first evidence of the subjective well-being impacts of low emission zones (LEZs) while also undertaking a comprehensive analysis of their air quality effects. We identify causal impacts by exploiting the zones' introduction date with difference-in-differences designs robust to staggered implementations and time-varying treatment effects. Results show air quality improvements through reductions in traffic-related pollutants despite ground-level ozone increases and harmfu...
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作者：Chen, Jidong
作者单位：Tsinghua University
摘要：We present a two-period collective bargaining model with asymmetric information and a persistent agenda setter. Voters have private information about their policy preferences. Only upon the failure of the initial proposal does the setter have a chance to revise it and call for a re-vote. The status quo gets implemented if the revised proposal fails. We establish the existence of an informative equilibrium for any number of voters and any q-rule, where the first-period voting enables the voters...
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作者：Andres, Leander; Fabel, Marc; Rainer, Helmut
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. Exploiting rich crime register data, we study the universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. Our main result shows that violent crime increases by 17 percent on a match day, with associated social costs of roughly 58 million euros annually. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find that the match day effect can be a...
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作者：Ferraz, Eduardo; Mantilla, Cesar
作者单位：Universidad del Rosario
摘要：Providing a public good that causes a local harm to its host poses two problems previously unexplored together: where to locate it and how large it should be. We propose a mechanism combining some market-like properties with a modified second-price auction. The mechanism selects a host, a facility size, a compensation for hosting the project, and determines how the compensation is split among the non-hosts. If each community bids truthfully for becoming the host-a strategy from which no commun...
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作者：Agarwal, Sumit; Han, Yajie; Qin, Yu; Zhu, Hongjia
作者单位：National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore; Jinan University
摘要：In this study we investigate disguised pollution by industrial firms in China. We find that sulfur dioxide (SO2) readings increase by 10.8% in air pollution monitoring stations four hours after sunset in high factory density areas, controlling for station-year, date, and city-hour fixed effects. Physical inspections by the Ministry of Environmental Protection may only temporarily reduce disguised pollution, suggesting that reliance on physical inspections to enforce regulations is ineffective ...
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作者：Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Virtanen, Hanna
作者单位：VATT Institute for Economic Research; Aalto University; VATT Institute for Economic Research; Aalto University; University of Helsinki; VATT Institute for Economic Research; Aalto University; VATT Institute for Economic Research
摘要：We study the effect of secondary education on criminal behavior of young men in Finland. We exploit admission cut-offs in over-subscribed programs and estimate the effect of gaining access to a) any secondary school vs no access, b) general vs vocational school, and c) selective vs less selective general school. Our results show that admission to any secondary school has a sizeable negative effect on the propensity to commit crime. There are no effects at the other two margins. The negative ef...
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作者：Andersen, Asbjorn G.; Franklin, Simon; Getahun, Tigabu; Kotsadam, Andreas; Somville, Vincent; Villanger, Espen
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：Exploiting the variation in wealth created by an Ethiopian housing lottery, we show that general attitudes towards redistribution and inequality aversion are not affected by a large positive wealth shock. New homeowners are, however, less supportive of taxing homeowners, highlighting a potential conflict between self-interest and preferences for redistribution. We also find evidence of endogenous beliefs: relative to losers, the wealthier winners are less likely to emphasize the role of luck i...
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作者：Hummel, Albert Jan
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute
摘要：In a Mirrleesian environment, a monopsonist sets hourly wages and individuals choose how many hours to work. Labor market outcomes do not only depend on the level and slope of the income tax function, but also on its curvature. A more concave tax schedule raises the elasticity of labor supply, which boosts wages. Consequently, optimal marginal tax rates for low-skilled workers are declining in income. I derive an optimal tax formula in terms of sufficient statistics that accounts for the impac...
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作者：Ferrari, Alessandro; Ossa, Ralph
作者单位：University of Zurich; University of Zurich; University of Zurich
摘要：We use a quantitative economic geography model to explore subsidy competition among U.S. states. We ask what motivates state governments to subsidize firm relocations and quantify how strong their incentives are. We also characterize fully non-cooperative and cooperative subsidy choices and assess how far away we are from these extremes. We find that states have strong incentives to subsidize firm relocations in order to gain at the expense of other states. We also find that observed subsidies...
