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de Clippel, Geoffroy; Eliaz, Kfir; Knight, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A key issue in arbitration, which resolves disputes among parties, involves the procedure for selecting an arbitrator …

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Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

The great majority of international contracts provide for arbitration in the event of dispute. Legal scholars argue … that international arbitration is causing the development of a legal doctrine attuned to the needs of business and … independent of national laws. This paper studies international arbitration as a prime example of private trade shaping …

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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Distributional Impact of Commodity Price Shocks: Australia over a Century

Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting poor countries between …

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...

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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Sceptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence

Rodríguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...

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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...

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Services Policy Reform and Economic Growth in Transition Economies, 1990-2004

Eschenbach, Felix; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Major changes have occurred in the structure of former centrally planned economies, including a sharp rise in the share of services in GDP, employment and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition economies with respect to services intensity and services...

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Growth Strategies

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last 50 years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neo-classical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...

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