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In this paper we question the common wisdom that more polarized voters’ opinions imply larger policy polarization. We analyze a voting model in which the source of the polarization in voters’ opinions is “correlation neglect”, that is, voters neglect the correlation in their information...
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It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...
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An intense debate on the use of limited-voting shares developed in the UK during the 1950s. Using a unique hand-collected dataset, we show that negative news coverage of limited-voting shares is associated with an increase in the relative price of voting and limited-voting shares (the voting...
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This paper presents a simple model of optimal sustainable growth when the environmental stock enters the consumers' utility function and production depends on produced capital and on a flow of environmental services. Endogenous growth is obtained by making the productivity growth of the...
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We provide direct estimates of how agents trade off immediate costs and uncertain future benefits that occur in the very long run, 100 or more years away. We exploit a unique feature of housing markets in the U.K. and Singapore, where residential property ownership takes the form of either...
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We present and analyse an optimizing model which explains the counter-intuitive effects of fiscal policy in terms of expectations. If government spending follows an upward-trending stochastic process, which the public believes may fall sharply when it reaches specific `target points', then...
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sustainability. We show that the dual democratic mechanism – rejection/support rewards (RSRs) for politicians and elections – can … achieve sustainability. RSRs stipulate that incumbents who are not re-elected, but obtain the majority support among young …
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finances of its member states. Yet there is no clear definition of sustainability. The economist’s common use of the term …. In this study, we develop a concept of sustainability focusing on the controllability of public finances. In so doing, we … adopt the approach of the Maastricht Treaty, to assume sustainability as long as a country does not violate the double …
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. As financial globalization accelerated its pace, the US transformed itself from a World Banker into a World Venture … the sustainability of the current global imbalances. …
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forward a notion of current account sustainability and compares the experience of three Latin American countries – Chile … sustainability indicators and discusses their usefulness in predicting external crises. …
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