71.
Matros, A., & Possajennikov, A. (2016).
Tullock contests may be revenue superior to auctions in a symmetric setting
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Economics Letters
, 142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.03.003
We consider a symmetric two-player common-value setting where each player gets a private signal about the object value. We show that for some parameter values the equilibrium revenue can be higher in a Tullock contest than in the standard auctions.
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De Fraja, G. (2016).
Optimal public funding for research: a theoretical analysis
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RAND Journal of Economics
, 47(3), 498-528. https://doi.org/10.1111/1756-2171.12135
This article studies how a government should distribute funds among research institutions and how it should allocate them to basic and applied research. Institutions differ in reputation and efficiency, and have an information advantage. The government should award funding for basic research to induce the most productive institutions to carry out more applied research than they would like. Institutions with better reputation do more research than otherwise identical ones, and applied research is inefficiently concentrated in the most efficient high reputation institutions. The article provides theoretical support for a dual channel funding mechanism, but not for full economic costing.
73.
Chambers, C. P., Liu, C., & Martinez, S. (2016).
A test for risk-averse expected utility
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Journal of Economic Theory
, 163, 775-785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2016.03.002
We provide a universal condition for rationalizability by risk-averse expected utility preference in a demand-based framework with multiple commodities. Our test can be viewed as a natural counterpart of a classical test of expected utility, due to Fishburn (1975), in a demand setting.
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Albornoz, F., Fanelli, S., & Hallak, J. C. (2016).
Survival in export markets
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Journal of International Economics
, 102, (262-281). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2016.05.003. ISSN 0022-1996
This paper explores the determinants of firm survival in export markets. We build an exporter dynamics model where firms need to pay market-specific sunk and fixed costs to operate abroad and where firm export profitability in each foreign market follows a geometric Brownian motion. Firms also differ ex ante by a constant market-specific profitability shifter. We derive the probability of export survival upon entry in a market and show that it increases with the ratio of sunk to fixed costs and is insensitive to the profitability shifters. Also, we show that the survival probability is unaffected by fixed costs if sunk costs are zero. We take the model to the data using firm-level Argentine export information. We find that survival rates decrease with distance, which the model rationalizes with sunk costs that increase with distance proportionally less than fixed costs. Estimated sunk costs are small. In fact, a counterfactual exercise shows that removing those costs increases aggregate exports by less than 1.5\%. Finally, we also find that survival increases with a firm’s export experience. Analogously to distance, the model’s implication of this empirical result is that experience reduces sunk costs proportionally less than fixed costs.
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Dijkstra, B., & Mathew, A. (2016).
Liberalizing trade in environmental goods and services
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Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
, 18(4), 499-526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-015-0121-6
We examine the effects of trade liberalization in environmental goods in a model with one domestic downstream polluting firm and two upstream firms (one domestic, one foreign). The upstream firms offer their technologies to the downstream firm at a flat fee. The domestic government sets the emission tax rate after the outcome of R\&D is known. The effect of liberalization on the domestic upstream firm's R\&D incentive is ambiguous. Liberalization usually results in cleaner production, which allows the country to reach higher welfare. However this increase in welfare is typically achieved at the expense of the environment (a backfire effect).
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