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Fiscal Policy in Europe : A Helicopter View

Bilbiie, Florin O. - 2020

persistent, unidirectional transfers between countries, an issue that largely reflects a Northern vs. Southern Europe divide …

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Migration and Fiscal Externality : US vs. Europe

Razin, Assaf - 2020

The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective … may explain in part these US-Europe differences in policies …

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A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility : China vs. Europe Revisited

Jia, Ruixue; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

opportunities to access elite status than Premodern Europe, for example via the civil service exam and the absence of hereditary … differences in the power structure of society: (1) the Ruler enjoyed weaker absolute power in Europe; (2) the People were more on … differences between Imperial China and Premodern Europe, as well as specific institutions such as the bureaucracy in China and the …

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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

levels of carbon emissions (and higher annual changes)--in all sectors over three continents, Asia, Europe, and North America …

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Immigration and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto - 2018

We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives' perceptions of immigrants influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large biases in natives' perceptions of the number and characteristics of immigrants: in all...

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Resource Misallocation in European Firms : The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018

Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...

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Quality of Judicial Institutions, Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Dishonesty

Mocan, Naci H. - 2018

We investigate the extent to which the quality of judicial institutions has an impact on individuals' propensity for criminal and dishonest behavior and on their views regarding the acceptability of dishonesty and law-breaking. We use micro data on residents of 25 European countries and employ...

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The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015

Jordà, Òscar - 2017

This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the...

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The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat - 2017

. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering …

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Does Employing Skilled Immigrants Enhance Competitive Performance? Evidence from European Football Clubs

Glennon, Britta; Morales, Francisco; Carnahan, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We investigate the effect of hiring skilled immigrant employees on the performance of organizations. This relationship has been difficult to establish in prior work due to theoretical ambiguity, limited data, and inherent endogeneity. We overcome these difficulties by studying European football...

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