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A dynamic model of inflation for Kenya 1974 - 1996

Durevall, Dick; Ndung'u, Njuguna S. - 1998

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Growing groups, cooperation, and the rate of entry

Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying group growth rates. Using a laboratory public-good game, we construct a situation where increasing group size yields potential efficiency gains, but only with sustained cooperation. We then study the effect of exogenously...

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Monitoring In teams: A model and experiment on the central monitor hypothesis

Grosse, Stefan; Putterman, Louis; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2007

Alchian and Demsetz’s (1972) influential explanation of the classical business firm argues that there is need for a concentrated residual claim in the hands of a central agent, to motivate the monitoring of workers. We model monitoring as a way to transform team production from a collective...

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Cooperation under the shadow of the future: Experimental evidence from infinitely repeated games

Dal Bó, Pedro - 2002

While there is an extensive literature on the theory of in finitely repeated games, empirical evidence on how “the shadow of the future” affects behavior is scarce and inconclusive. We simulate in finitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma games in the lab by having a random continuation rule....

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Goods Arbitrage and Real Exchange Rate Stationarity

Campa, Jose; Wolf, Holger - 1998

reasoning. If arbitrage was indeed the cause of mean reversion, one would expect to see a quantity respose of trade flows at the … significant evidence of trade flows changing at the points of mean reversion. Alternative explanations of mean reversion, notably …

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Services in the India-EU Free Trade Agreement

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2023

This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on … agreement and next predict the impact on services trade flows using a general equilibrium structural gravity analysis. I find …'s trade with the rest of the world would not change much, while India's exports to the rest of the world would decline by …

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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Bekhtiar, Karim - 2023

international trade and automation technologies, suggests that both forces contributed in roughly equal parts to this development. …

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Regional and aggregate economic consequences of environmental policy

Schmitz, Tom; Colantone, Italo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2024

This paper shows how to combine microeconometric evidence on the effects of environmental policy with a macroeconomic model, accounting for general equilibrium spillovers that have mostly been ignored in the literature. To this end, we study the effects of a recent US air pollution policy. We...

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Endogenous enforcement of intellectual property, North-South trade, and growth

Schäfer, Andreas; Schneider, Maik T. - 2011

While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...

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Trade Protection in India: Economics vs. Politics?

Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996

This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...

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