EconomicaPub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.22202/economica.2023.v13.i1.6872
Prince Charles Heston Runtunuwu
{"title":"EFFECT OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH, UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY IN NORTH MALUKU, INDONESIA","authors":"Prince Charles Heston Runtunuwu","doi":"10.22202/economica.2023.v13.i1.6872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22202/economica.2023.v13.i1.6872","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139310530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12500
Karl Whelan
{"title":"Risk aversion and favourite–longshot bias in a competitive fixed-odds betting market","authors":"Karl Whelan","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12500","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12500","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on sports betting has generally found a favourite–longshot bias: bets on longshots lose more than bets on favourites. Existing research focuses largely on pari-mutuel betting, but favourite–longshot bias is also evident in fixed-odds online betting markets of the type that are growing rapidly around the world. Explanations for this bias in previous work on pari-mutuel markets cannot explain why it would be a feature of competitive fixed-odds betting markets. We show how disagreement among gamblers and risk aversion on the part of bookmakers in a competitive market can produce a pattern of favourite–longshot bias resembling the empirical evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"188-209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecca.12500","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135616568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating compliance gains of expanding tax enforcement","authors":"Knut Løyland, Oddbjørn Raaum, Gaute Torsvik, Arnstein Øvrum","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12499","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12499","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper demonstrates how tax administrations can evaluate future compliance gains from risk-based tax enforcement that audits all taxpayers above a risk threshold. Expanding tax enforcement in this setting means reducing the audit threshold. The compliance gains from such an expansion consist of a mechanical audit correction effect and a behavioural effect that reflects changes in self-reporting in the subsequent years. We estimate this behavioural effect in a regression discontinuity analysis with the risk score as the forcing variable. We find that taxpayers at the margin had a significant reduction in self-reported deductions in the next years' tax filing. The behavioural effect over a three-year post-audit period is estimated to be of a magnitude similar to that of the direct adjustment of the audit. This compliance effect does not change when we include the reporting of the spouse. We find that the risk score threshold that maximizes net public revenue from the audits is considerably below current practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"142-162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecca.12499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12497
Inge van den Bijgaart, David Klenert, Linus Mattauch, Simona Sulikova
{"title":"Healthy climate, healthy bodies: Optimal fuel taxation and physical activity","authors":"Inge van den Bijgaart, David Klenert, Linus Mattauch, Simona Sulikova","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12497","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12497","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Passenger transport has significant externalities, including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to the health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We introduce active travel into an optimal fuel taxation model and characterize analytically the second-best optimal fuel tax. We find that accounting for active travel benefits increases the optimal fuel tax by 44% in the USA and 38% in the UK. Fuel taxes should be implemented jointly with other policies aimed at increasing the uptake of active travel.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"93-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecca.12497","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135805170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.47282/economica/2023/14/3-4/12838
Attila Farkas
{"title":"MAGYARORSZÁGI ÉS REGIONÁLIS KÖZÖSSÉGI KÖZLEKEDÉSI VÁLLALATOK TUDATOS INTERNETES MEGJELENÉSÉNEK NETNOGRÁFIAI VIZSGÁLATA","authors":"Attila Farkas","doi":"10.47282/economica/2023/14/3-4/12838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47282/economica/2023/14/3-4/12838","url":null,"abstract":"Összefoglalás
 Az elmúlt években a munkaerő felvétele és megtartása érdekében a vállalatok között erős verseny indult meg. A koronavírus járvány időszakában ez a versengés fokozódott. A munkaerőpiacon végbemenő változásokra válaszul, a munkáltatók részéről ez a kihívás új módszereket igényel, egyre inkább előtérbe került a munkáltatói márkaépítés. A kommunikációs csatornák átrendeződésével előtérbe került az online megjelenés, azon belül is a közösségi oldalak használata, mind munkaadói, mind munkavállalói részről. A kutatás tárgya a közösségi közlekedésben érdekelt vállalatok munkáltatói márkaépítése az interneten, elsősorban a közösségi oldalakon, azon belül is a népszerű Instagram oldalon. A tanulmány célja bemutatni a munkáltatói márkaépítés jelentőségét az online térben, a közösségi oldalakon megjeleníthető témákat és az adott reakciókat, az online megjelenés eredményességét és hatását. A primer kutatás során a netnográfia módszerével tártam fel közösségi vállalatok megjelenésének különbségeit és hasonlóságait nemzetközi és hazai közlekedési vállalatok körében. Az eredmények alapján megállapítható, hogy a közösségi vállalatok egyre szélesebb körben és fokozódó intenzitással használja a közösségi oldalakat számos témában, így a munkáltatói márkaépítésben is, azonban célzott megjelenéssel fokozható az eredményesség, mivel a társadalmi témák, felelősségvállalással kapcsolatos tartalmak megjelenítése, mérhető reakciókat váltanak ki. Megállapítható, hogy a közösségi média a céges tevékenységek bemutatására, identitás kialakítására, szervezeti üzenetek, értékek közvetítésére alkalmas felület.","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12498
Adam Osman, Jamin D. Speer
{"title":"Stigma and take-up of labour market assistance: Evidence from two field experiments","authors":"Adam Osman, Jamin D. Speer","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12498","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12498","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aversion to ‘stigma’—disutility associated with a programme or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived—may affect labour market choices and utilization of social programmes, but empirical evidence of its importance is scarce. Using two randomized field experiments, we show that stigma can affect consequential labour market decisions. Treatments designed to alleviate stigma concerns about taking entry-level jobs—such as how those jobs are perceived by society—had small average effects on take-up of job assistance programmes. However, using compositional analysis and machine learning methods, we document large heterogeneity in the responses to our treatments. Stigma significantly affects the composition of who takes up a programme: the treatments were more successful in overcoming stigma for older, wealthier and working respondents. For other people, we show that our treatments merely increased the salience of the stigma without dispelling it. We conclude that social image concerns affect labour market decisions and that messaging surrounding programmes can have important effects on programme take-up and composition.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"123-141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecca.12498","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12495
Nicolò Tamberi
{"title":"Export-platform foreign direct investment and trade policy uncertainty: Evidence from brexit","authors":"Nicolò Tamberi","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12495","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12495","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper analyses the effect of trade policy uncertainty in a customs union on export-platform foreign direct investment (FDI). First, I develop a partial equilibrium framework with heterogeneous firms based on the proximity–concentration trade-off that involves trade policy uncertainty about trade costs inside a customs union. Second, I derive an empirical equation that I test by exploiting the 2016 Brexit referendum as a natural experiment and using data on manufacturing greenfield FDI projects. The results show that trade policy uncertainty impacted negatively the decisions of firms to invest in export-platform activities in the UK following the Brexit referendum. Moreover, I find that extra-EU manufacturing firms preferred EU countries as opposed to the UK for new investments after the 2016 referendum.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"33-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecca.12495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12496
Tianyuan Luo, Cesar L. Escalante
{"title":"Driver's licences for undocumented immigrants and post-mortem organ donation","authors":"Tianyuan Luo, Cesar L. Escalante","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12496","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12496","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the relationship between expanded access to driver's licences among undocumented immigrants and the number of post-mortem organ donors, using difference-in-differences modelling and event study estimation techniques. Results suggest that the adoption of laws that grant driver's licences to undocumented immigrants effectively increased the population of licensed drivers by about 2.7%. These increments eventually led to subsequent increases in the number of Hispanic organ donors by 28%, and the outcome is driven mainly by young adult Hispanic donors. Moreover, DLU laws are further credited with an approximately 17% increase in organ transplants, particularly among Hispanics, although transplant waiting list addition numbers are not significantly affected. As these laws pave the way for more undocumented drivers to register as organ donors, such legislation could help to alleviate organ shortage issues and narrow the ‘ethnic waiting period gap’ for organ transplants.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"70-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12494
Jim Been, Eduard Suari-Andreu, Marike Knoef, Rob Alessie
{"title":"Consumption and time use responses to unemployment: Implications for the lifecycle model","authors":"Jim Been, Eduard Suari-Andreu, Marike Knoef, Rob Alessie","doi":"10.1111/ecca.12494","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecca.12494","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we analyse the effects of unemployment on consumption and time use. To do so, we employ a micro panel dataset for the Netherlands containing a large set of expenditure and time use categories. Our results show a small negative effect of unemployment on expenditures, and large positive effects on time spent on home production and leisure activities. We do not find evidence for complementarity between leisure and consumption or for substitution between home production and expenditures. We use our results to estimate a ratio of relevant lifecycle parameters, and show that the point estimates and their precision depend strongly on the expenditure and time use categories considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"91 361","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecca.12494","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83610584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconomicaPub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.47282/economica/2023/14/1-2/12928
Nirmeen Elmohandes, K. Pető
{"title":"EXPLORING THE VIABILITY OF SERVICE ROBOTS IN PERFORMING HUMAN AESTHETIC LABOUR IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY","authors":"Nirmeen Elmohandes, K. Pető","doi":"10.47282/economica/2023/14/1-2/12928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47282/economica/2023/14/1-2/12928","url":null,"abstract":"This literature review seeks to investigate the value of human aesthetic labour in light of the growing deployment of robotic service workers. As automation continues to advance and replace human workers in a variety of industries, including service industries such as retail, hospitality, and entertainment, the role, value and the significance of aesthetics and the human touch grows. Due to the contemporary nature of the topic, researchers combed databases like Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar for relevant articles using terms like \"human aesthetic labour,\" \"robotic service workers,\" and \"service industry.\" This review will investigate the extent to which the rise of robotic service workers has altered the perception and value of human aesthetic labour. The findings of this research review will contribute to the ongoing discussion on the future of work in the service industry and provide businesses with insights on the significance of preserving human aesthetic labour and its impact on customer and guest experience as well as business performance.\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":48040,"journal":{"name":"Economica","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72676240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}