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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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The Time-Preference Nash Solution [PDF]
We give an axiomatic characterization of the Time-Preference Nash Solution, a bargaining solution that is applied when the underlying preferences are defined over streams of physical outcomes.
Eyal Winter, Nir Dagan, Oscar Volij
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a two‐period model to investigate how fiscal and bureaucratic asymmetries shape yardstick competition (YC), inter‐municipal cooperation (IMC), and rent‐seeking in local public service provision. Unlike previous approaches, we allow incumbents to invest in bureaucratic efficiency, influencing both service quality and ...
Antonio Cortese +2 more
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Tongxin xuebao, 2017 Focusing on the deep space habitat network requirements of high reliability and expensive links,two impact factors to the network performance were regarded as a multi-objective optimization problem,which were network reliability and cost efficiency model,
Zi-jing CHENG +3 more
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Collusion through debt and managers
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate the anticompetitive effects of debt financing and managerial incentives in the presence of managers incurring personal bankruptcy costs. We characterize the strategic value for firms' shareholders of resorting to debt and managerial incentives as complementary devices to sustain collusion among firms, when managerial bankruptcy ...
Raffaele Fiocco +2 more
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Resolving water security conflicts in agriculture by a cooperative Nash bargaining approach
Agricultural Water ManagementWater scarcity is increasingly driven by socio-economic dynamics, climate change, and population growth. Conflicts among water users, including states, complicate sustainable water management, necessitating collaborative solutions.
Shahmir Janjua +3 more
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Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies how litigation and settlement behaviour is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American fee‐shifting rule compared to the English one. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures are overall higher under the English rule compared to the American rule—even for low‐merit cases ...
Wladislaw Mill, Jonathan Stäbler
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
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The Interaction Between Credit and Labor Market Frictions
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I study a novel two‐way feedback between credit and labor market frictions. Running from credit to labor markets, amplitude in capital demand caused by collateral constraints spills over onto labor demand due to the complementarity of capital and labor; and, furthermore, credit frictions raise effective financial hiring costs, prompting firms ...
Yulia Moiseeva
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Sensors, 2017 In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), unlicensed users, that is, sensor nodes, have excessively exploited the unlicensed radio spectrum. Through Cognitive Radio (CR), licensed radio spectra, which are owned by licensed users, can be partly or entirely ...
Yuxing Mao +3 more
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