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Student time allocation and educational production functions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we aim to remedy some shortcomings in the economic literature on university student absenteeism and academic performance. We start by introducing a simple theoretical model in which students decide the optimal allocation of their time between lecture attendance, self-study and...

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The Dynamic Cost of Draft

Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - EconWPA - 2002

We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital accumulation to evaluate the economic consequences of compulsory services (such as military draft or social services). Our analysis identifies a so far ignored dynamic cost arising from distortions in time allocation over the...

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Education, Labour Supply and Market Development in Rural Peru

Laszlo, Sonia - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage-dependent and labour supply parameters. Geographic...

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Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …

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Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Manufactured Import Prices: The Case of Japan

Wickremasinghe, Guneratne Banda; Silvapulle, Param - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Economic Community in East Asia: Japan's Leadership in the Regional Development on both Economic and Financial Sides

Kitagawa, Masaomi - EconWPA - 2005

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … two major countries in the region, in the arrangement, China and Japan would have centered roles in promoting economic … cooperation in East Asia. However, it is practically impossible to decide either China or Japan is capable of taking the …

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The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993

Ramseyer, J. Mark - EconWPA - 2005

Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of posts. This creates the possibility that politicians might indirectly use the...

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