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Interkommunale Kooperationen als eine Strategie zur Leistungssteigerung

During, Dirk - 2013

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The rationality behind immigration preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2003

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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Are the Japanese unique? : evidence from household saving and bequest behavior

Horioka, Charles - 2016

by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …

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Culture Matters : A Test of Rationality on Economic Growth

Forson, Joseph Ato; Janrattanagul, Jakkaphong; … - 2014

paper is to verify the assertions made by these two schools of thought from the perspective of culture as a rationality …

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Why the current Peak in Populism in the US and Europe? Populism as a Deviation in the Median Voter Theorem

Figueira, Filipa - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 7 (2018) 2, pp. 154-170

The current surge of populism in Europe and the United States calls for further analysis using public choice tools. In this article, populism is modelled as a deviation from the normal state of the median voter theorem. This study adds to the public choice literature by proposing a model of...

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A political economy model of congressional careers

Diermeier, Daniel (contributor); … - 2004

Theories in political economy depend critically on assumptions about motivations of politicians. Our analysis starts from the premise that politicians, like other economic agents, are rational individuals who make career decisions by comparing the expected returns of alternative choices. The...