Similar Search Results

Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The paper studies a voting scheme where members of a committee voting sequentially on a known series of binary … simple majority voting. But if one of the voters controls the order of the agenda, does the scheme become less efficient? The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123593

Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management - in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504341

Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662342

Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas R; Riezman, Raymond - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing … majority, and the aggregate payoffs all match the theory. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656276

Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

Mazzuca, Sebastián L; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

representation (PR), was the desire of the Conservative and Liberal parties to come up with a way of credibly dividing power to avoid … problem with majoritarian electoral institutions was that they did not allocate power in a way which matched the support of … with the rising support for socialism and the desire to divide power more broadly. Our findings shed new light on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114374

Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Yu, Zhihong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a unique firm level data set from the Chinese manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms’ export performance. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies stimulate export activity, although this effect is conditional on firm...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789202

Imports and TFP at the Firm Level: The Role of Absorptive Capacity

Augier, Patricia; Cadot, Olivier; Dovis, Marion - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972170

Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879

Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing periphery widened to such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123574

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124136

Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila

Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Microcredit seeks to promote business growth and improve well-being by expanding access to credit. We use a field experiment and follow-up survey to measure impacts of a credit expansion for microentrepreneurs in Manila. The effects are diffuse, heterogeneous, and surprising. Although there is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048547

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last