Essays in public economics

oil, pollution, and crime three essays in public economics

oil, pollution, and crime three essays in public economics

... D’Erasmo, Tim Jones, Barry Kahn and Anya Yurko Chapter of this dissertation is co-written with Barry Kahn v Oil, Pollution, and Crime: Three Essays in Public Economics Publication No. _ Conan ... Crum Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Oil, Pollution, and Crime: Three Essays in Public Economics Committee: Don Fullerto...

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Essays in public economics

Essays in public economics

... and only if the winning probability increases sufficiently Higher electoral risk however reduces the increase in winning probability and the incentive for independent agents to join a political ... sincere voting seems innocuous With any finite set of voters and only two alternatives, sincere voting would be the weakly dominant strategy With a continuum of voters, the notion of weak dominan...

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essays in financial economics- mental accounting and selling decisions of individual investors; analysts' reputational concerns and underreaction to public news

essays in financial economics- mental accounting and selling decisions of individual investors; analysts' reputational concerns and underreaction to public news

... presented in Chapter 2, examines whether individual investors’ trading decisions are in uenced by a desire to feel good about gains and losses Because of the diminishing marginal utility of gains and ... exhibited in actual trading decisions of individual investors Investors realize gains or losses when they sell stocks Therefore we can draw inferences about investors...

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Tài liệu Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment doc

Tài liệu Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment doc

... of p andf On the other hand, an increase in the other component of the cost of apprehension and conviction, has no direct effect on the marginal cost of changing offenses with f and reduces the ... in b increases the marginal revenue from changing the number of offenses by changing p orf and thereby increases the optimal number of offenses, reduces the...

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essays in behavioral economics in the context of strategic interaction

essays in behavioral economics in the context of strategic interaction

... being naive (in the sense of the opportunity cost of not being strategic) In particular, in out of the 14 games in CGW, the L1 action guarantees a payoff of at least 45 ECU out of a maximum of ... independent parameters in the model which also incorporates search patterns Before proceeding, let us briefly sketch the design of the experiment as well as the...

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essays in labor economics

essays in labor economics

... problems in measuring social interactions in real world settings I …nd that both learning about the norm and social in uence play an important role in the choices of the subjects Individuals indulge ... thinking about the uncertainty in their labor force status pretty early in their careers It might be of interest to see whether the heterogeneity across and within gender in bel...

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essays in monetary economics

essays in monetary economics

... and so increase consumption only gradually in response to an increase in expected income In the absence of capital adjustment costs, individuals spend the increase in expected income on investment ... following an increase in the nominal short rate Since households must take on a mortgage to consume housing, the rise in the real interest rate reduces the share of residential inves...

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