{"id":16399,"date":"2025-07-29T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=16399"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:54:15","slug":"bidding-for-firms-efficiency-vs-redistribution-and-optimal-government-policy","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/eventos\/bidding-for-firms-efficiency-vs-redistribution-and-optimal-government-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidding for Firms: Efficiency VS Redistribution and Optimal Government Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Seminario de Investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP<\/div>\n<div>Bidding for Firms: Efficiency VS Redistribution and Optimal Government Policy<\/div>\n<div>Expositor |<strong>\u00a0Juan Manuel Escolar<\/strong>\u00a0| MIT<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>What is the Federal government\u2019s optimal regulation of regional competitions for firms? How does it depend on the heterogeneity of the firm\u2019s profits across regions? And from the information structure of these profits available to the Regions? In this paper, I will show how regional competition for firms might generate welfare increases by allowing for efficient allocations, but at the expense of negative externalities generated by subsidy transfers. I will show that the Federal government\u2019s optimal policy partially restricts or forbids competition entirely. I analytically and numerically characterize how increased regional profit heterogeneity and reduced information availability strictly decrease the optimal subsidy cap, intensifying the government\u2019s incentive to restrict competition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lugar | FCE-UBA | Aula 237<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminario de Investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP Bidding for Firms: Efficiency VS Redistribution and Optimal Government Policy Expositor |\u00a0Juan Manuel Escolar\u00a0| MIT Abstract What is the Federal government\u2019s optimal regulation of regional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[74],"class_list":["post-16399","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-seminario-iiep","cat_seminario-iiep"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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