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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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Incomplete Regulation, Asymmetric Information and Collusion-Proofness [PDF]
In an incomplete regulation framework the Regulator cannot replicate all the possible outcomes by himself since he has no influence on some firms present in the market.
Marco Meireles, Paula Sarmento
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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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Collusion in the Indian Tea Industry in the Great Depression : An Analysis of Panel Data [PDF]
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the control schemes in the Indian tea industry during the Great Depression, whereby producers attempted to collude by reducing output.
Gupta, B.
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The proposed Enhanced Games have become a convenient stage for bioethical sermonising about risk, authenticity, and the “spirit of sport”. This is epitomized by a recent article arguing that institutionalizing pharmacological enhancement under the “pretence of medical supervision and personal autonomy” would redefine human excellence in ...
Ognjen Arandjelović
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Optimal Regulation of Auditing [PDF]
We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in ...
Giovanni Immordino, Marco Pagano
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Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta‐conspiracy framing
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Prebunking can be used to pre‐emptively refute conspiracy narratives. We developed a new approach to prebunking – fighting fire with fire – which introduces a plausible ‘meta‐conspiracy’ suggesting that conspiracy theories are deliberately spread as part of a wider conspiracy.
Mikey Biddlestone +5 more
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British Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper offers a psychoanalytic critique of the affirmation model in gender identity care, drawing on clinical experience from the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). It argues that institutional and therapeutic responses to gender distress in young people are increasingly shaped by pressures to affirm rather than to ...
Marcus Evans
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Incentives for Process Innovation in a Collusive Duopoly [PDF]
Two suppliers of a homogenous good know that, in the second period, they will be able to collude. Gains from collusion are split according to the Nash bargaining solution.
Christoph Engel
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Cross‐Ownership and Welfare‐Inferior Price Competition with Relative Profit Delegation Contracts
Bulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We consider management reward contracts based on relative profit performance under cross‐ownership and find nonequivalence of price and quantity competition. We also examine an endogenous choice of competition mode under unilateral cross‐ownership and show that the welfare‐inferior price competition can appear unless the product's ...
Mingqing Xing, Sang‐Ho Lee
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