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Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
Firms seeking new products, investors backing competitors, and government agencies in search of design solutions are all examples of different models of contest design found in the marketplace. In PERC’s working paper ...
Alternative Approaches to Comparative nth-Degree Risk Aversion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-07-30)
Economists have used the risk premium and the probability premium that are revealed through individual choices to compare how risk averse two individuals are. These behavioral, or choice-based, measures of risk aversion ...
U.S. Budget Woes, the CBO Projections
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-04-30)
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office are worrisome and were expected to be so. In fact, federal debt held by the public is projected to be 106% of GDP by 2028 and deficits are expected to persist ...
Federal Entitlement Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-06-25)
Federal spending has hovered at around 20% of GDP for the past 50 years. Recent CBO reports forecast deficits averaging around 5% of GDP each year for the next 10 years, combined with rising federal spending continue to ...
Discounting Environmental Benefits to Future Generations: Implications of a Coordinating Debt Policy and Tax Distortions in the Capital Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-04-28)
Looking beyond today’s fiscal problems in the U.S., the debate about the how to best incorporate the well-being of subsequent generations in current public policy discussions continues. Authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. ...
Whither the Trade War with China?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-09-21)
In the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the U.S. has demanded reducing or even eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers and that China halt intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. ...
Tax Reform...
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
The passage of the biggest tax reform bill in decades, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, comes with a substantial cut in the corporate tax rate and vast changes to the individual income tax code. In the PERCspectives on Policy ...