Browsing Discussion papers (SAM) by Subject "VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212"
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Geocomputation and open source software:components and software stacks
(Discussion Papers;23/2011, Working paper, 2011-11)Geocomputation, with its necessary focus on software development and methods innovation, has enjoyed a close relationship with free and open source software communities. These extend from communities providing the ... -
Give and take in dictator games
(Discussion paper;14/2012, Working paper, 2012-07)It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the ... -
Global income inequality and cost-of-living adjustment : the Geary–Allen world accounts
(Discussion paper;20/2012, Working paper, 2012-10)Standard ways of measuring real income are known to be inconsistent with consumer preferences. We provide preference-consistent estimates of real income, based on the income-specific price indices that are consistent ... -
Good skills in bad times : cyclical skill mismatch and the long-term effects of graduating in a recession
(Discussion paper;16/2012, Working paper, 2012-08)We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating ... -
Guided through the "Red tape"? : information sharing and foreign direct investment
(Discussion paper;3/2013, Working paper, 2013-02)What drives the observed tendency of new FDI, other things equal, to be attracted to locations where many other foreign investors are located? One explanation in the literature on FDI location is that expected bene ts ... -
Health insurance coverage for low-income households : consumption smoothing and investment
(Discussion Papers;16/2013, Working paper, 2013-10)I estimate the e ects of public health insurance on consumption smoothing and investigate the extent to which the public insurance interacts with private arrangements of self-insurance. Exploiting a dramatic expansion ... -
Heterogeneity in fairness views - a challenge to the mutualistic approach?
(Discussion paper;7/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)This commentary argues that the observed heterogeneity in fairness views, documented in many economic experiments, poses a challenge to the partner choice theory developed by Baumard, André and Sperber. It also discusses ... -
Horizontal mergers and product quality
(Discussion paper;4/2014, Working paper, 2014-02)Using a spatial competition framework with three ex ante identical firms, we study the effects of a horizontal merger on quality, price and welfare. The merging firms always reduce quality. They also increase prices if ... -
Hospital competition with soft budgets
(Discussion paper;6/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with ... -
Hospital mergers : a spatial competition approach
(Discussion paper;8/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)Using a spatial competition framework with three ex ante identical hospitals, we study the effects of a hospital merger on quality, price and welfare. The merging hospitals always reduce quality, but the non-merging hospital ... -
Identification in models with discrete variables
(Discussion paper;1/2013, Working paper, 2013-01)This paper provides a new simple and computationally tractable method for determining an identified set that can account for a broad set of economic models when economic variables are discrete. Using this method it is ... -
Immoral criminals? An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners
(Discussion Papers;15/2011, Working paper, 2011-09)This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find ... -
Inducement prizes and innovation
(Discussion Papers;25/2011, Working paper, 2011-12)We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find large effects ... -
Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820
(Discussion paper;12/2013, Working paper, 2013-06)Cointegration analysis has been used widely to quantify market integration through price arbitrage. We show that total price variability can be decomposed into: (i) magnitude of price shocks; (ii) correlation of price ... -
Is recipiency of disability pension hereditary?
(Discussion paper;10/2012, Working paper, 2012-04)This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the ... -
Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Discussion Papers;12/2011, Working paper, 2011-07)There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact ... -
Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company. A personal and professional relationship.
(Discussion paper;08/15, Working paper, 2015-04)John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd., London – a comparatively small and little known company founded in 1928. The ... -
Leadership and incentives
(Discussion Papers;2/2014, Working paper, 2014-01)We study how leader compensation affects public goods provision. We report from a lab experiment with four treatments, where the base treatment was a standard public goods game with simultaneous contribution decisions, ... -
Leadership and incentives
(Discussion paper;10/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)We study whether compensating people who volunteer to be leaders in a public goods game creates a social crowding-out effect of moral motivation among the others in the group. We report from an experiment with four ... -
Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect Contract Enforcement
(Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-03)Licensing promotes technology transfer and innovation, but enforcement of licensing contracts is often imperfect. We explore the implications of weak enforcement of contractual commitments on the licensing conduct of ...