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The Prisoner`s Dilemma and City-Centre Traffic

Joshi, Vijay; Joshi, Mary Sissons - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

It is commonly asserted that such problems as inner-city traffic congestion and pollution can be understood as examples of the Prisoner`s Dilemma Game (PD), but there is a dearth of empirical research that tests this assertion. 587 car owners in Oxford City were presented with three pairs of...

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The Rising Well-Being of the Young.

Blanchflower, D-G; Oswald, A-J - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong.

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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...

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Patent Laws and Innovation in China

Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China

Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making. Chinaâ€™s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid â€˜social instabilityâ€™. It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...

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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …, using a specially designed sample survey relating to 2011. The underlying hypothesis is that the lifestyle and attitudes of …

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Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

determinants of subjective well-being. Less attention has been paid to its normative implications. Taking China as a case study …

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Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China

Bretschger, Lucas; Zhang, Lin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general …

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Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

appropriate data set for China. The tests favour the early theories. Implications are drawn. …

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Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion

Eberhardt, Markus; Helmers, Christian - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

China and the United States. We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China …. Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

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