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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1344 Arno Riedl
Frans van Winden
Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (2), 216-232)
A10, C90, C91, D21, D80, E62, H20
1343 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Dana Lup
What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 54 (1), 33-70)
M13, O16, O19, P26
1341 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Stephen V. Burks
Eric Verhoogen
Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games
To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are ...
(published in: J. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List (eds.), Field Experiments in Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, 10), 2005, 261 - 289)
C93, J24, Z13
1340 Christine Harbring
Bernd Irlenbusch
Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection
Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2005, 161 (4), 636-663)
D23, J33, J41, L23, C72
1339 Andrew E. Clark
Fabrice Etilé
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Claudia Senik
Karine Van der Straeten
Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries
This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (502), C118-C132)
C14, C23, I30
1338 Almas Heshmati
Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships
This paper examines the causal relationship between inequality and a number of macroeconomic variables frequently found in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, ...
(published in: A. Heshmati ; A. Tausch (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU Lisbon Process and the Structure of Global Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 109-137)
C23, D63, F14, O40, O57
1337 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 60 (1), 31-51)
C72, C92, H41
1336 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with ...
(published as 'Educational standards in private and public schools' in: The Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (533), 1866-1887)
H52, H73
1335 Jan Boone
Jan C. van Ours
Effective Active Labor Market Policies
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period ...
(published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313)
H55, J65, J68
1334 Solomon Polachek
How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 2004, 3 (special issue), 29-42.)
F1, F2, J61, M55, O24
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