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The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: on the Interaction of General and Specific Investments by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph

“…Human capital theory distinguishes between training in general-usage and firm-specific skills. Becker (1964) argues that employers will only invest in specific…”
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Communication in Federal Politics: Universalism, Policy Uniformity, and the Optimal Allocation of Fiscal Authority by Kessler, Anke S.

“…The paper presents a positive model of policy formation in federal legislatures when delegates engage in the strategic exchange of policy-relevant information…”
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Acculturation, education, and gender roles: evidence from Canada by Kessler, Anke S, Milligan, Kevin

“…Abstract This article studies the influence of cultural norms on economic outcomes. We combine detailed information on second-generation female immigrants with…”
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Property rights on First Nations reserve land by Aragón, Fernando M., Kessler, Anke S.

“…This paper examines the economic effects of existing private property rights on First Nations reserves. We focus on three regimes of land tenure: lawful…”
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Custom Elections and Local Policies: The Case of Canada’s First Nations by Aragón, Fernando M., Kessler, Anke S.

“…We examine the effect of community-designed electoral codes on Canadian First Nation communities. Adopting a custom code for local elections allows for changes…”
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Redistribution, Fiscal Competition, and the Politics of Economic Integration by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph, Myers, Gordon M.

“…The paper examines the consequences of the economic integration of factor markets in a model with two countries that redistribute income among their residents…”
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Interregional Redistribution and Mobility in Federations: A Positive Approach by KESSLER, ANKE S., HANSEN, NICO A., LESSMANN, CHRISTIAN

“…The paper studies the effects and the determinants of interregional redistribution in a model of residential and political choice. We find that paradoxical…”
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The Value of Ignorance by Kessler, Anke S.

“…This article provides a new perspective on the information structure of an agent in a standard model of adverse selection. Before contracting takes place, the…”
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Representative versus Direct Democracy: The Role of Informational Asymmetries by Kessler, Anke S.

“…The paper studies the relative merits of direct and representative legislation in a setting where voters are uncertain both with respect to the likely…”
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The Political Geography of Tax H(e)avens and Tax Hells by Hansen, Nico A., Kessler, Anke S.

“…In this paper, whether the geography of a country is related to its pattern of taxation is investigated. Central to the argument is the ongoing international…”
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Tiebout and redistribution in a model of residential and political choice by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph

“…The paper considers a two-community model with freely mobile individuals. Individuals differ not only in their incomes, but also in their tastes for a local…”
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On Monitoring and Collusion in Hierarchies by Kessler, Anke S.

“…This paper studies a stylized three-layer agency framework in which a principal hires a supervisor to monitor an agent's productive effort. It is demonstrated…”
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ENDOGENOUS PUNISHMENTS IN AGENCY WITH VERIFIABLE EX POST INFORMATION by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph, W. Schmitz, Patrick

“…The article studies an adverse selection model in which a contractible, imperfect signal on the agent's type is revealed ex post. The agent is wealth…”
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Optimal Auditing in Hierarchical Relationships by Kessler, Anke S.

“…This paper studies a principal-agent model with third-party auditing. Auditing technologies are distinguished according to the quantity (frequency) and the…”
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(Non-)Existence of Equilibria in Multicommunity Models by Hansen, Nico A., Kessler, Anke S.

“…This paper reconsiders equilibrium existence in models with migration and voting over local public goods. We show that under some straightforward assumptions…”
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Revisiting the Lemons Market by Kessler, Anke S.

“…This article extends the standard competitive adverse selection model by allowing for qualitatively different information structures of agents on the informed…”
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Bilateral Bargaining, Unverifiable Quality, and Options to Return by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph

“…The paper investigates an alternating-offers bargaining game between a buyer and a seller who face several trading opportunities. These items (goods or…”
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Economic versus political symmetry and the welfare concern with market integration and tax competition by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph, Myers, Gordon M.

“…The paper studies the implications of increased capital market integration and the associated increased tax competition for world welfare. We consider a…”
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Monitoring and Productive Efficiency in Public and Private Firms by Kessler, Anke S., Lülfesmann, Christoph

“…The paper compares productive efficiency in public and private firms. We study a principal-agent model in which the firm's manager is privately informed about…”
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The architecture of federations: Constitutions, bargaining, and moral hazard by Luelfesmann, Christoph, Kessler, Anke, Myers, Gordon M.

“…The paper studies a federal system where (a) a region provides non-contractible inputs into the social benefits from a public policy project with spillovers to…”
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