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作者：Fiorin, Stefano
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：I show that offering monetary rewards to whistleblowers can backfire as a moral aversion to being paid for harming others can reverse the effect of financial incentives. I run a field experiment with employees of the Afghan Ministry of Education, who are asked to confidentially report on their colleagues' attendance. I use a two-by-two design, randomizing whether or not reporting absence carries a monetary incentive as well as the perceived consequentiality of the reports. In the consequential...
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作者：Bonfatti, Roberto; Brey, Bjorn
作者单位：University of Padua; University of Nottingham; University of Oxford
摘要：Colonial trade prompted the colonies to specialise in primary products. Did this eliminate industrialisation opportunities in the colonies, and did it make them more politically dependent on the coloniser? To answer these questions, we examine the impact of the World War I trade shock on industrial growth and support for the anti-colonial movement in India. We find that districts more exposed to a drop in imports experienced faster industrial growth in 1911-1921, thereafter remaining on a high...
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作者：Thuemmel, Uwe
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：I study the optimal taxation of robots, other capital, and labor income. I show that it is optimal to distort robot adoption. The robot tax (or subsidy) exploits general-equilibrium effects to compress wages, which reduces income-tax distortions of labor supply, thereby raising welfare. In the calibrated model, when robots are expensive, a robot subsidy is optimal. As robots get cheaper, it becomes optimal to tax them. Yet, when reforming the status-quo tax system, most welfare gains can be ac...
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作者：Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique; Gil, Ricard; Holub, Felix; Uriz-Uharte, Guillermo
作者单位：Universidad Publica de Navarra; Queens University - Canada; Goethe University Frankfurt
摘要：Low Emission Zones are defined areas within a city where driving restrictions are introduced with the aim to reduce pollution, but they may also unintentionally distort consumer spending decisions. By increasing transportation costs to ban-affected areas, driving restrictions could discourage spending in stores of those areas. This paper empirically evaluates the effects of a driving restriction regulation in Madrid, Spain, known as Madrid Central. First, using a difference-in-differences iden...
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作者：Forand, Jean Guillaume; Ujhelyi, Gergely; Ting, Michael M.
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Columbia University
摘要：We develop a model of policy making with an endogenous bureaucracy. Parties choose platforms and ideologically differentiated citizens decide whether to enter the public sector, anticipating the platforms that they may be asked to implement. Bureaucrats prefer to work on policies closer to their ideal, and voters judge the performance of an administration taking both politicians' and bureaucrats' actions into account. The model provides an equilibrium framework to study the emergence of partis...
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作者：Mattozzi, Andrea; Nakaguma, Marcos Y.
作者单位：University of Bologna; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Getulio Vargas Foundation
摘要：We study the effect of transparency of individual votes in committees where members are heterogeneous in competence and bias, they are career-concerned, and they can abstain. We show that public voting attenuates the biases of competent members and secret voting attenuates the biases of incompetent members. Public voting leads to better decisions when the magnitude of the bias is large, while secret voting performs better otherwise. We present novel experimental evidence consistent with our th...
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作者：Fujiwara, Thomas; Muller, Karsten; Schwarz, Carlo
作者单位：Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; National University of Singapore; Bocconi University
摘要：We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter users across counties induced by early adopters at the 2007 South by Southwest festival, a key event in Twitter's rise to popularity. We show that this variation is unrelated to observable county characteristics and electoral outcomes before the launch of Twitter. Our results indicate that Twitter lowered the Republican vote share in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, but ...
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作者：Martinez, Seung-Keun; Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Columbia University; California Institute of Technology
摘要：Understanding the structure of time preferences allows for accurate predictions of the effects of changing intertemporal incentives. Behavioral models of present bias are used to rationalize field data seemingly at odds with exponential discounting, leveraging additional degrees of freedom to improve in-sample fit. Largely lacking to date are the critical out-of-sample tests necessary to ensure predictive accuracy. This paper contrasts exponential discounting with present-biased procrastinatio...
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作者：Askarov, Zohid; Doucouliagos, Anthony; Doucouliagos, Hristos; Stanley, T. D.
作者单位：Westminster International University Tashkent; Deakin University; Deakin University
摘要：We assess the impact of mandating data-sharing in economics journals on two dimensions of research credibility: statistical significance and excess statistical significance (ESS). ESS is a necessary condition for publication selection bias. Quasi-experimental difference-in-differences analysis of 20,121 estimates published in 24 general interest and leading field journals shows that data-sharing policies have reduced reported statistical significance and the associated t-values. The magnitude ...
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作者：Boccanfuso, Jeremy; Ferey, Antoine
作者单位：University of Bologna; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
摘要：This paper shows that inattention to taxes generates a time-inconsistency problem in the choice of tax policy, leading to higher taxes in equilibrium. These discretionary tax increases are inefficient as they are deviations from the socially optimal commitment policy. We call these deviations a taxation bias. Combining sufficient statistics and structural approaches, we quantify the magnitude of this policy distortion for the U.S. redistributive tax-transfer system. We find that the taxation b...
