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Testing for Collusion in Asymmetric First-Price Auctions [PDF]
This paper proposes fully nonparametric tests to detect possible collusion in first-price procurement (auctions). The aim of the tests is to detect possible collusion before knowing whether or not bidders are colluding.
Maria F. Gabrielli, Gaurab Aryal
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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract In divided societies, can museums contribute to healing and recovery? While efforts to memorialize past violence typically aim to promote tolerance and reconciliation, remembering could exacerbate divisions in recovering societies where the past is deeply contested. We examine a transitional justice museum exhibit in Northern Ireland.
Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas
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COLLUSION DETECTION SOFTWARE IN ONLINE MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAMINATIONS – A REVIEW
Медицина в Кузбассе, 2022 Computers have been used in higher education to assess students for decades. Software to allow assessments to be delivered to students (often referred to as computer-assisted assessment, or CAA), became widely commercially available in the 1990s, and ...
Srinivasa Jayachandra
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Beneficial Collusion in Corruption Control: The Case of Nonmonetary Penalties [PDF]
We analyze a corruption model where a principal seeks to control an agent’s corruption by supplementing a costless noncollusive outside detector such as the media with a collusive internal supervisor.
Mehmet Bac, Parimal Kanti Bag
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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
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Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Building a strong and effective state requires revenue. Yet, in many low‐income countries, citizens do not make formal payments to the state or forego engaging with the state altogether due to vulnerability to opportunistic demands by state agents. We study two randomized interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, designed to
Soeren J. Henn +4 more
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Detecting collusion in timber auctions : an application to Romania [PDF]
Romania was one of the first transition countries in Europe to introduce auctions for allocating standing timber (stumpage) in public forests. In comparison with the former system in the country-administrative allocation at set prices-timber auctions ...
Marochko, Valy +5 more
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Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can AI‐driven capitalism sustain the moral preconditions of market order? We stage a dialogue between Adam Smith and a steel‐manned “EconAI” to test four Moral‐Market‐Fitness criteria: trustworthiness, fairness, non‐domination, and contestability, across 11 dilemmas.
Alexandra‐Codruța Bîzoi +1 more
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